Camino Practice Walk - Capilano Pacific Trail

Nice walk with friendly group this past weekend - Capilano Pacific Trail from Ambleside Park to the Cleveland dam and back.  Practiced getting lost and back on route.  Pie stop wind up was nice.

  

Golden Ears Park Hike

As a teen just getting into hiking I would spend a lot of time exploring Golden Ears Park as it was close to our home.

This past weekend my brother joined me for a morning hike up the West Canyon, trail, cross Gold Creek on the new footbridge and back the East Canyon trail.  Nice to spend time with my brother and revisit old familiar trails.

Three Bridges Cycle Ramble

Last weekend I set out to do a circular route from my home taking in the three main bridges (Port Mann, Golden Ears and Pitt River) whilst sticking as closely as possible to traffic free cycle ways, trails, dykes, etc.  

74 km

Practice Camino Walk - Fort Langley Fort to Fort

Another pleasant but moist walk with the Camino group. Thirteen hardy souls plus our dog Farley.

We walked from the current reconstructed Fort Langley site to the site of the original fort (1827) downstream plus a loop along the Houston trail just inland. The Fort Pub provided tasty post walk refreshments.

Stella Bread

A friend of mine from work is of Dutch extraction and for a special treat she will bake up a couple of loaves of a dense rye type bread.

Her name is Stella and the bread is delicious.

A main ingredient is Red River Cereal.  It packs well so is great for trail snacks and we typically eat it open faced with a slice of cheese.

Here is the recipe (makes two loaves)

4 cups   Red River cereal
4 cups   flour
3 tsp      baking soda
1 tsp      salt
1 cup     molasses
4 cups    hot water

Mix mix ingredients then add hot (not boiling) water and molasses. Mix
Pour into two lightly greased loaf pans.
Bake at 250 degrees for 2.5 hours.
Enjoy (freezes well)

Practice Camino Walk - Burns Bog

Damp conditions seemed appropriate for through Burns bog this past weekend.  Not even wet and muddy feet can deters our group of dedicated pilgrims!

Test hike for my new Outdoors Research Helios rain hat.  Full marks!

Camino Practice Walk - SFU Circumnavigation ged

The group dodged the grim weather forecast for for a thoroughly enjoyable 14.5 km hike around Simon Fraser University two weeks ago.  Spanish wine and tortilla apres walk.  Great route John - thanks!