Even decades ago, the story of a missing hiker starts the same: someone goes out and doesn’t return. A search begins. In most cases, the person is found. But some missing hikers are never found. They vanish as if into thin air, their fate hidden amongst jagged rocks, deep gullies, and raging creeks. The disappearance…
There was not a drop of snow on the ground on the trail that January, but an arctic outflow had reared its icy head over the past week. As I descended from the mountain, I carefully picked my way across several patches of runoff that had frozen solid across the trail. It was a climbing…
If you walk along the West Canyon Trail in Golden Ears Provincial Park, one of the first views you’ll see is a rounded mountain to the northwest, heavily forested below and sparse enough on top to afford stunning views of the surrounding peaks and the Coast Mountains. At 9 km round trip, the hike to…
They said if you were hiking solo on the West Coast Trail, to always make sure that you were in the middle of the pack, never last to arrive at camp. After getting off the boat from Gordon River, my fellow hikers were merrily climbing up the first ladder, thirty-five rungs of near-vertical hell. Hanging…
Along a trail called Corrie’s Corners in what is now Heritage Park in Mission, BC, lies the remnants of an airplane, scattered amongst the ferns and trees. For decades it has been an open secret amongst Mission’s residents that there was wreckage of a small plane in the park, but its origins have been lost…
