**’Ribbon of Snow’ follows six days of Nordic skiing with 47 Vancouver Skiers in British Columbia’s West Kootenays. After consecutive ski days in Nature on a ribbon of classic track, we ponder the power of gliding on snow crystals. The …
The Ghosts of Allerton Garden were there, in the:
West Coast Wilderness Lodge (WCWL) on the Sechelt Peninsula, part of British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast… is a sea star. This star of the sea has won The Georgia Straight’s ‘Best of Vancouver’ award for the last seven …
Leaving Horseshoe Bay on a crack-of-dawn ferry gets us kayaking on Wallace Island Marine Provincial Park by noon. Since my last blog-post from Thetis Island, we’ve wanted to kayak-camp on Wallace.
From Nanaimo, it’s an hour’s drive south to Crofton …
Kayaking Thetis Island is made easy from Cedar Beach Ocean Resort , two ferries away from the British Columbia mainland. We arrive at 120 Clam Bay Road on Thetis Island via Departure Bay ferry terminus. We drive south less …
Next golf trip, tag along on the East Shore of Kootenay Lake. Not a golfer? Need a day off?
“Fore-mi-da-ble,” say French golfeurs. “Par-fait!”
Go beyond the greens at Kokanee Springs, a Golf-Advisor top-ten destination resort…
Vancouver Skiers’ love letter to Methow Valley, Washington State X-C Ski area near Winthrop, Washington. Five ways we love you.
Dear Methow Valley,
Your name (so elegant, like The Met, and ‘ow’ like an après-ski-fall) is the site of …
‘Bodacious Reading Series: Bob’s Not Responding
I read at Bodacious last month. Ten minutes, six poems. My final one is you-tubed below on ‘Bob’s Not Responding’ (lyrics included). My other five may incarnate elsewhere.
‘Bodacious’ is a new reading …
Bicycling from Swartz Bay to Victoria along the Lochside Trail isn’t without incident. Just five minutes past the Victoria Radio Control Modelers Society (VRCMS) flying grounds at Michell Airpark, I meet a pig in a pigpen.
Welcome to …