October 31, 2026 -- Chilliwack River Valley Stats: 16.5 km / 1062m gain / 6:10 hours MT It was great to be out with the club again, after a 2-month absence due to other trips and then back issues. This hike was a beauty, with fresh snow above 1000m, soft sun and jagged, some almost vertical peaks all around us. A stop along the gravel road to the trailhead. We parked by the first of two washouts which added only 10-minutes of walking to the hike. Angel Wings. The towering to

Sept. 25 - Oct. 5, 2026 What better way to show off BC to my two dutch sister-in-laws, than to drive through the most beautiful part of our country, the Canadian Rockies. The weather was on our side, illuminating the vibrant autumn yellow, gold and red colours backed up by a cobalt bue sky. A liesurely drive to Cultus Lake and then through Columbia Valley while dealing with their jetlag. Sept. 25 - We began our trip by driving to Manning Park where we stayed the night with so

Sept. 7-8, 2026 From Tolim we took the train (which was 30-minutes late because they were waiting for a group of people to arrive) to Bohinj Lake, the largest lake in Slovenia. Alison took the train straight through to Bled which was on the itinerary. The via feratta gear had to be dropped off at a certain time so she brought ours in too. The idea was that she'd grab my bag of sight-seeing clothes that I'd left at the very first hotel we stayed at back in Kranjska Gora. They