Archive:Winter Longhike 2007
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Date: January 13-14
There will also be a mandatory dry school on Wednesday Jan 10th at 6pm in the VOC clubroom to arrange rides, food, driving instructions, and go over some snowcave theory.
Location: Winter Longhike will be at Manning Park and Fat Dog Creek Mt. Seymour due to the weather.
Driving Instructions
Coming Across Lions Gate on HWY #1
- Take the Fern St exit 22 to Capilan College/Mt. Seymour Park/Deep Cove 0.3km
- Turn left at Fern St 0.4km
- Turn right at Mr. Seymour Pkwy 4.4km
- Turn left at Mt. Seymour Rd 13.4km
Coming Across Second Narrows on HWY #1
- Merge onto Fern St/ Capilan College via exit 22 to Mt. Seymour Pkwy 0.4km
- Turn right at Mt. Seymour Pkwy 4.4km
- Turn left at Mt. Seymour Rd 13.4km
We are meeting at the trailhead at 8:30am. The trailhead is located at the BC Parks Information Kiosk at the end of the upper parking lot.
Parking is available at the lowermost parking lot in a designated overnight parking area. You are supposed to check in at the Guest Services building and give them your licence plate number, when you're expected back, emergency contact number, etc...
We are taking the Mount Seymour Trail and Camping between the First and Second Pumps past Brockton Point.
Mount Seymour: Length: 4 km. Suggested time: 2.5 hours. Elevation change, 450 m. A busy trail that starts near the north end of the top parking lot, traversing Brockton Point and First and Second Pump Peaks. From the summit there is a panoramic view of Vancouver, the Lower Mainland and, on a clear day, the Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island. Moderate to difficult. From Parking Lot 4 along the Mount Seymour Trail to Second Pump Peak serves as a winter route.
trail map http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/mt_seymr/mtseymour.pdf
Sign-up
- Instructor Sign-up
- Andrew Pare
- Christian Veenstra (can't do dryschool)
- Sandra Nicol
- Craig Alfredson
- Student Sign-up
- Aurore Ponvienne
- Christian Sampaleanu
- Christian Champagne
- Piotr Forysinski
- Bronwyn Jarvis
- Kaitlin Vandenbosch
- Trevor Scudamore
- Afton Halloran
- Clint Morgan
- Liz Cross
- Matthew Baker
- Jason Bedard
- Tracy Wilkinson
- Irena Kuca
- Leila Larson
- Holger Feser
- Rick Havlak
- Edward Estabrook
- Lara Thompson
- Mary Anne Thompson
- Alice Leppitt
- Rueben Schulz (will be a few minutes late to dryschool)
- Andrew McGechaen
- Gregory Stegeman
- Peter Eugster
- Daniel McLaren
- Sverre Frisch
- Bob Lai
- Alix MacKay
- Marcus Rohrbach (will be a few minutes late to dryschool)
- Stephanie Reczka
- Matthew Carroll
- Robyn Barnett
- Diane Moug
- Ashlee Jollymore (will be late to dryschool)
- Jamie Moskowitz
- Marco Faustmann
- Dylan Weil
- Emily Kwok
- Yanna Martinek
- Matthew Breakey
- Inho Choi
- Line Christiansen
- Nicholas Edgar
Rides
Since this is such a big trip, rides are usually coordinated at the dry school on Wednesday January 10th to match drivers with passengers who live close to them. However, please indicate here if you have a car, where you are leaving from and how many people you can transport.
- Drivers Name [email, location leaving from, # of passengers]
- Matthew Breakey: Three drivers are now in this car [[email protected], MacD&4th, full]
- Laura's Mom (she's cool)
- Laura
- Matthew Breakey
- Ed Estabrook
- Alice, if you show up Laura will drive again.
- Sandra Nicol [[email protected], 7th and Oak but will come to UBC, 4]
- Christian Veentra
- Piotr
- Matthew Carroll
- Stephen Mullen
- Clint Morgan [[email protected], Kits, 3 comfy/4 cozy]
- Bob Lai [[email protected], UBC, 5,skier or snowshoes] Looking for someone with a white gas stove. Pete only has a propane one which probably won't work too well in the cold.
- Pete Eugster
- Ashlee Jollymore
- Passenger #3
- Passenger #4
- Passenger #5
- Roland Burton [[email protected], UBC, 3 w/snowshoes, 2 w/skis] We will go home on Sunday as soon as we are ready.
- Afton
- Aurore
- Dave (Roland's son)
- Megan
- Tracy Wilkinson [[email protected], full car ]
- Kaitlin
- Irena
- Yanna
- Jennifer Ness [[email protected], UBC, 4 leaving early sun morning]
- Moi
- Kristina Shu
- Dan Eagen
- Greg Stegeman
- Andrew Pare [[email protected], East Van, 3]
- Stephanie Reczka
- Bronwyn
- Christian Sampaleanu
- Flether Stevens [[email protected], Kits, 3]
- Marcus Rohrback
- Christian Champagne
- Nick Edgar