I recently hiked the White Pine Trail near Nanaimo. It’s part of the Trans Canada Trail near Nanaimo. Years ago, I hiked from Haslam Creek up to Timberland Lake, a section of the Trans Canada trail. It was an easy hike, not a ton of… Read More »White Pine Trail
I’ve been hiking of the Trans Canada Trail lately. Christie Falls is along the trail just north of Ladysmith. I hiked out there last year but never got the chance to post the photos. Over the next 2 weeks I’ll be posting of the Great… Read More »Wandering to Christie Falls
Sometimes you start hiking a trail having absolutely no idea what it’s going to be like. Or rather the image you had in your head of the trail is completely wrong. That’s the way I started the Alberni Inlet trail. I had assumed I was… Read More »Trip Report: Alberni Inlet Trail
One of the most useful sources of information when you plan your West Coast Trail hike is trip reports from other hikers.They usually talk about what gear they brought, what the weather was like, what campsites they slept at, what route they hiked and why… Read More »West Coast Trail Trip Report Roundup
May 31, 2014, over 80 people found their way into a room at the Kingfisher resort in Courtney, BC. They were there for the first of an event that Vancouver Island had never seen before, the Vancouver Island Trails Network Conference hosted by VISTA. What… Read More »Vancouver Island Trails Conference Recap
Day 2 on the Elk River Trail. See Day 1 here. We followed the trail along the river up to Landslide Lake. Not to be satisfied with just one beautiful lake, we took the rough trail around Landslide to Iceberg. There are actually icebergs in… Read More »Elk River Trail Day 2: Iceberg Lake
It was Bryn’s Birthday. We had to go hiking. He hadn’t seen the Elk River Trail yet and I was more than happy to tag along. I had reservations about the wasps that typically monitor the trail but there should only be one or two… Read More »Elk River Trail Day 1
Some of the greatest stories in history have been large quests. The kind where the hero goes out and returns months or years later after having battled through epic obstacles. They return triumphant a completely different person with more experience, wisdom and possibly a few… Read More »Finding Happiness in the Pursuit of Big Goals
Mount Arrowsmith is hard to miss if you’re driving around on Vancouver Island. I can’t count the number of times I’ve driven north of Nanaimo, looked left up to his stony peaks and wondered when I was going to hike up there. I finally put… Read More »Judges Route: Mount Arrowsmith Trip Report
I’ve written about the Vancouver Island Trail (used to be VI Spine Trail) before but they were mostly status updates on how the project was currently going. I wanted an introductory page that explained the trail and will like to all the future posts about… Read More »What is the Vancouver Island Trail?