Archive for the ‘Hiking’ Category

Lynn Peak trail

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

This Friday we went for a hike at the Lynn Headwaters Regional Park up to Lynn Peak.  The trail is pretty demanding with 800m climb in 4.2km distance to the peak, but really beautiful through the forest, and we only met a couple of people the whole day.  Near the top we sat for a [...]

Sasamat lake

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

Yesterday we went out with Kathrin (a frisbee playing friend from Munich with a connection to Vancouver) to Sasamat lake for a small hike.  Actually it wasn’t so far, and a very leasurly pace, but a nice walk all the same.  The lake looks like it’s a popular family escape from the city in the [...]

English Bay and Grouse Mountain

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Last Thursday and Friday we had lovely weather, and Chrissi had her two days off – we had a nice time of it!  On Thursday we went down to the beach just below Burrard bridge, had a burger at a promenade vendor, sat in the sand and took photos for my film project (more on [...]

Rained out of Big White

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Easter weekend we went up to Big White (about 400km East of Vancouver) with Giom and Nadia.  It was a nice weekend, but we didn’t have so much luck with the weather…  Saturday we went on the piste, but the weather was only half ok – some snow and hail, and some clear spells between.  [...]