Tag: Vancouver Island
Island Tours – The 5,040 Peak Hut
Reading Time: < 1 minutes One of the first public backcountry huts on Vancouver Island opened for skiing in January. The 5,040 Peak Hut sits at 1,350m on a subalpine ridge above the highway between […]
Read more »Looking Back
/Reading Time: 6 minutes Many of us claim to dream about skiing. But how many of us regularly dream—by that I mean have visions during deep REM sleep—about skiing? I’ll be the ? rst […]
Read more »Best of skiing in Canada
/Reading Time: 9 minutes It’s time again, another year and another annual insiders’ look at what makes Canadian skiing so distinguished. These pages aren’t filled with facts and stats you’ll find in brochures and […]
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Mud, sweat, & tears
/Reading Time: 6 minutes Prepare like a pro before tackling B.C.’s most famous West Coast Trail With mud threatening every orifice and a 25-kg pack swinging over my back like a wild chimp intent […]
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