‘Hiking’ Articles

Effective August 12th 2011, the Grouse Grind and BCMC Trail will open at 6:30am and close at 6:30pm. [Continue]

photo credit: saltyseadog The Grouse Grind trail will be closed for one full day – Thursday, August 4, 2011. A full-day closure is required to ensure that crews can safely remove rocks and do other priority trail repairs. Please respect the one-day trail closure and hike in other areas on August 4. Earn free Amazon [Continue]

Proponents of a multi-million-dollar proposal are hoping to bring tourists to the top of a mountain near B.C.'s famed Stawamus Chief -- no hiking required. GroundEffects Development of North Vancouver wants to build a gondola that would travel up to Habrich Ridge, a point just off the Sea-to-Sky Highway between Shannon Falls and the [Continue]

Photo by Tyler Ingram in the Outdoor Vancouver Flickr Pool You can now register for your next backcountry camping trip in a BC Park before you even leave your house. The old way of filling out the envelopes and dropping the correct change into the box had a few draw-backs for sure (have you ever [Continue]

An 18-year-old hiker is chilly, but safe, after spending the night lost on a trail in the Lions Bay area just north of Vancouver. A search began at around midnight after the woman and her hiking partner became separated while hiking the rugged trail near the Lions, at around sunset Wednesday. One member of the Lions Bay Search and Rescue team [Continue]

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — Rangers blocked tourists from visiting one of Yellowstone National Park's most popular destinations Thursday as authorities hunted for a female grizzly bear in the area that mauled a backcountry hiker to death. It was the first fatal grizzly attack inside the park in 25 years -- but the third in the Yellowstone [Continue]

The family of a man who survived a violent grizzly bear encounter on B.C.'s central coast believes his dogs might have provoked the bear's attack. John Johnson — recovering from serious injuries in Victoria hospital — was picking berries in the remote community of Owekeeno on B.C.'s central coast Monday morning when he was set upon by a [Continue]

A missing skier was rescued on June 26 after becoming separated from his friends amid the deep snow of the Howe Sound Crest Trail. The skier was fine, although he only had one ski pole left and was "minimally equipped," according to Tim Jones of North Shore Rescue. Jones said the novice backcountry skier, a Vancouver man in his 30s, got [Continue]

Live Trails is a really cool website I’ve posted about before. It’s a place for people to post current trail conditions and share their outdoor experiences. While the site has been around for a while now, last week was the ‘official’ launch. Here’s the press release: Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) June 26, 2011 Live Trails, a [Continue]

Welcome to the June Outdoor Blog Carnival! Back in April, Ross at PureOutside hosted the first Carnival on Favorite Spring Gear. This month we threw out the question ‘What makes a great trail, and what’s your favorite example of one?‘. In only the second Carnival to be held, we had a very healthy result of [Continue]