If you are hoping to do a hike with great views of are not interested in driving logging roads and would rather instead a drive through idyllic bucolic landscapes, consider hiking Mt Tzouhalem. The hike is an easy one, with a max elevation somewhere around 475 metres it gives amazing …
Mt Hooper from Lake Cowican
November 15th, I joined up with Rod Szasz and a few other hikers, many from the Island Mountain Ramblers for a trip up a rarely summited peak in the Nanaimo Lakes Region/Cowichan Lake Region. Mt Hooper tops out around 1490 metres. For me, an most interesting aspect of the hike …
November Ascent up Mt. Moriarty — Done An Alternate Hike for the Day
Great days don’t always finish the way they are planned. Sunday November 9th, I met some new hiking friends at Chapters at 6:30am. Our plan was to do the Beaufort Lake Loop, approaching the range from the Port Alberni side. As you can discern from the title … we didn’t …
The Obscure Sadie Peak
View from the summit of Sadie Peak, looking North Many of those who read my blog will know that I live in Nanaimo BC and that most of my hiking trips take me to the mid and north island. If you know your geography at all, you will also know …