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Mount Strachan Hike -Cypress Mountain Hikes

Mount Strachan Hike -Cypress Mountain Hikes

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Mount Strachan is one of the three Mountains that make up Cypress Bowl (and the Cypress Mountain Ski resort) near Vancouver, Canada. However, for some reason it receives far less attention than the other two, Black Mountain and Hollyburn Mountain. This trail involves hiking up a beautiful (if tiring) gully and then scrambling up to two peaks. Then, on the return journey you go past a airplane crash site before hiking through some truly gorgeous old growth forest. It really…

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Happy New Year! Mount Seymour Skiing

Happy New Year! Mount Seymour Skiing

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Happy New Year everyone!! I hope you all had fantastic Christmas breaks and giggles over new year. Marc and I decided to have a quiet new years eve so that we could get up early and have an epic start to 2019. It worked. We went to bed early, then woke up to make it up to the slopes for some Mount Seymour skiing. I wrote a post about Skiing for Newbies, as last year we had our very first…

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Wild Mushroom Foraging tour – Vancouver

Wild Mushroom Foraging tour – Vancouver

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This was one of the coolest Christmas presents from last year. Marc’s brother bought us a wild mushroom foraging tour from Swallow Tail Tours. We’ve always had fun watching out for interesting mushrooms when we’re hiking, so we both liked the idea of finding out what some of them are. It’s not permitted to harvest mushrooms from provincial parks in Canada, so we didn’t pick the fungi…we just learned how to identify them. If you fancy going on a wild…

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Tim Jones Peak – hike in the rain

Tim Jones Peak – hike in the rain

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The Mount Seymour hike is actually made up of several smaller peaks. To reach the main summit, you need to go past Dinkey Peak, Brockton Point, First Pump Peak and Tim Jones Peak. It is pretty perfect for newbie walkers as although it is steep, with plenty of rocks to scramble over, it’s not too difficult and rewards walkers with epic views from the summits. Tim Jones Peak was re-named in January 2017 (it used to be called Second Pump…

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