The Vitals Date: August 31 – September 2, 2024 Location: Garibaldi Provincial Park, BC Distance: ~40 km hiked, ~12 km paddled Time: 3 days Partners: Brittany, Will, Alex, Dave Photos: Brittany The Summary The map below is approximate. This was the first overnight trips with the DIY packrafts and also one of the dream trips […]
The Vitals Date: August 2-5, 2024 Location: Squamish/Whistler, BC Distance: ~40 km Time: 4 days Partners: Brittany, Will, Christian Resources: Guapo Greg – Alcoholic Traverse Photos: Brittany The Summary We’ve come a long way since August 2016 when we did the Alcoholic Traverse as our first off-trail hike. Since then we’ve done many routes (like […]
The Vitals Date: June 21-28, 2024 Location: Mayrhofen, Austria Distance: ~90 km Time: 8 days Resources: Trekking in Austria’s Zillertal Alps, Austrian Alpine Club The Summary The Berliner High Route/Berliner Höhenweg/Zillertal Rucksack route is a hut-to-hut, multi-day hike in the vicinity of Mayrhofen, Austria. As a loop, it can be done in either direction staying […]
The Vitals Date: May 18 – 20, 2024 Location: Kamloops, BC Distance: ~200 km Time: 3 days Resources: Bikepacking.com The Summary The past few years have been low on bikepacking trips but we have managed a couple of routes from bikepacking.com including the Cowichan 8 and Texada Island routes. Part of the reason was a […]
The Vitals Date: February 3, 2024 Location: Lower Pitt River Distance: ~16 km Time: 4.5 hours Resources: Fenton Gauge – Pitt River The Summary It’s a bad winter for snow sports but a relatively warm and high-overcast day in February spurred a last-minute plan to paddle the lower Pitt River from Grant Narrows Park at […]
The Vitals Date: December 2022 – November 2023 Location: The basement Time: 75+ hours Resources: DIY Packraft The Summary Session Activity Time Total Time 1 Cut fabric 2.5 2.5 2 Seat 0.75 3.25 3 Seat 2 5.25 4 Seat 1.75 7 5 Seat 1.5 8.5 6 Seat 1 9.5 7 Seat 1.5 11 8 Seat […]
The Vitals Date: August 6-8, 2023 Location: Duffey Area, BC Distance: 40+ km Partners: Dave, Christian, Jason Resources: Scrambles by Matt Gunn, Various Photos: Dave and Jason The Trip Day 1 – Highway 99 to Rohr I went to Marriott basin in 2014 and scrambled some small peak to the west of Wendy Thompson hut […]
The Vitals Date: July 1 – 5, 2023 Location: Upper Sunshine Coast and Texada Island Partners: Brittany Resources: Bikepacking.com Powell River Sampler and Bikepacking.com Texada Photos: Brittany The Trip Day 1 – Saltery Bay to Inland Lake Provincial Park (44 km/44 km total) Saturday morning of Canada Day long weekend meant an early wakeup call […]
The Vitals Date: March 25 – April 2, 2023 Location: SE Nevada, SW Utah, NW Arizona Partners: Brittany Photos: Brittany The Trip Highlights At the end of winter in BC we thought we would take a different type of vacation than usual – one that was based around driving but still had lots of camping […]
The Vitals Date: September 5 – 18, 2022 Location: Basel CH to Delft NL Distance: ~730 km cycled and 200 km train Partners: Brittany Resources: Eurovelo gps tracks, Guidebook by Mike Wells. We carried a paper copy of the guidebook. Great to read ahead on the segments with little fun facts and good routing suggestions […]
The Vitals Date: August 30 to September 5, 2022 Location: Zurich CH to Basel CH Distance: ~520 km cycled and 90 km train Partners: Brittany Resources: Eurovelo gps tracks, Guidebook by Mike Wells. We carried a paper copy of the guidebook. Great to read ahead on the segments with little fun facts and good routing […]
The Vitals Date: August 13-15, 2022 Location: near Pemberton, BC Distance: ~45 km Partners: Scott The Trip Day 1 The last trip Scott and I did was to White Lakes last summer where the distance covered was very short but the bushwhacking was second-to-none. This year we picked an established route in the form of […]
The Vitals Date: July 29 – August 2, 2022 Location: North of Pemberton, BC Distance: ~55 km Partners: Brittany, Will, Alex, Dave Photos: Brittany The Trip This was one of the most peak-bagging focused trip I’ve ever done. I’m not motivated by numbers when it comes to summits but this area, with its density of […]
The Vitals Date: July 1-3, 2022 Location: Clinton, BC Distance: ~150 km in 1 long and two short rides Partners: Brittany, Will, and Anne Photos: Brittany The Trip Day 1 We drove to Clinton via Hope on Hwy 1 and then north through the Fraser Canyon. We passed by the town of Lytton which was […]