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Two years ago, while camping on San Josef Bay, my friends Arwen, Matt, and I adventured beyond the beach and up towards Mount St. Patrick on the north end of the beach. We made it about half way up the mountain, but called it quits as it was hot, buggy, and we had cold beers back at […]
We drove to the northern tip of Vancouver Island to explore the legendary Cape Scott trail. I had done this hike before but it was a first for Brittany. The hike to Nels Bight at Cape Scott is 17 kilometres through the forest which is extremely mucky in parts, past lakes, rivers, former settlements and […]
I have just started reading The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant on recommendation from my colleague. The first section of chapter one resonated particularly well in describing the space where the north pacific coast meets the pacific rainforest. Having trundled through forests such as this on my last trip to Cape Scott, this passage is […]
My friend Matt and I did a trip to Cape Scott over the Labour Day weekend. I managed to get Friday off so had four days of long weekend to use. We drove up to Cape Scott on Thursday afternoon, a 7 hour drive from Nanaimo to the north end of the island. The […]
