Thanks Jodi for Your Many Years of Work for the FMCBC!
I would like to acknowledge and thank Jodi Appleton for her dedicated years of service to the Federation. Jodi will be very much missed as she not only worked efficiently…
Member Club Grant Update: Mountain Mentors
Applications for Mountain Mentors’ third winter season, funded in part by an FMCBC Member Club Grant, went live on October 15, 2018. Mountain Mentors facilitates relationships for women who are…
Member Club Grant Update: Hickory Wing Ski Touring Club
The funding that the Hickory Wing Ski Touring Club received from the Federation helped our club rent a backhoe and do some much-needed ditching and water bar improvements to our…
Member Club Grant Update: Alpine Club of Canada – Vancouver Island Section
The Vancouver Island Branch of the Alpine Club of Canada would like to thank the FMCBC for the generous grant awarded in spring of 2018 to construct an environmental friendly…
Fat Cats
There has been a spate of books published in the last few decades lamenting the deterioration of our national and provincial parks, with Sid Marty being but one of the…
Book Review: The Ogre: Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent
In reviewing Chris Bonington Mountaineer in the Spring/Summer 2017 issue of Cloudburst, I referred to Bonington and Scott’s 1977 first ascent of the 7,285-metre Ogre in Pakistan, noting: “Soon after…
Spearhead Huts Project: Construction of the Kees and Claire Hut
Visitors to Garibaldi Park this winter will see the new Kees and Claire Hut, high on the terrace overlooking Russet Lake. The Spearhead Huts Society has worked hard this summer,…
Vancouver Island Rails to Trails Event
The Vancouver Island Trail (formerly VISTA) and Friends of Rails to Trails Vancouver Island (FORT-VI) held an “information event” on Sept 15th at Shawnigan Lake. The goal was to galvanize…
Fido Can’t Fly
I’ve been meaning to write this article for a few years, as I often see folks out with some version of Fido, enjoying local trails, which makes me smile—and sometimes…
Southwest BC Trails Committee Report
Current projects for 2018 Mount Seymour The five-year program to upgrade the increasingly popular Dog Mountain Trail, funded by Metro Vancouver, continued this summer. This area west of the trailhead…
Southwest BC Recreation and Conservation Committee Report
Over the past several months, the SWBC Recreation and Conservation Committee has worked on a range of matters. The following highlights some of these issues and the work by Committee…
Sunshine Coast Trail: Confederation – Fiddlehead Landing Huts
The recent publication of 105 Hikes in and Around Southwestern British Columbia (2018) has come as a surprise to many—a variety of time-tried treks have been omitted and an array…
David Stevenson, Chugach State Park and Anchorage
I had been invited by the International Thomas Merton Society (ITMS) Anchorage to deliver a paper on Thomas Merton and Boris Pasternak (this being the 50th year since Merton gave…
Big Steps Forward for a Small Island: Introducing Bowen Island Trail Society
Bowen Island Trail Society (BITS) is a volunteer organization dedicated to building and maintaining a well-integrated and interconnected community trail network for non-motorized trail users on Bowen Island, BC. Started…
Outdoors with Mark
Mark’s first day at high school was a challenge for both of us. He was autistic, had Down’s syndrome and was non-verbal. Change of environment was very difficult for Mark…