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id about decent maps and trail markers as a diverse and gorgeous province you have a wealth of stunning hiking trails most of which can be used as tasty bait to lure adventurous tourists inside the provincial boundaries and once they are in they are sure to spend money however the hikes themselves are not enough you know what visitors really need decent maps and trail markers not everyone who checks out the hiking trails in b c is navigationally savvy and even those that are would still like to know a few critical details about a hike before embarking on it for example 1 how do i get myself to the trail head 2 how long is the hike better if this is measured in good old kilometres rather than by time because the last time i checked not everybody hikes at the same speed 3 where will the hike take me i e what is the route 4 how do i get back to my car or bicycle or the road when i am finished the hike is this a loop trail or an out and back seems pretty simple right then why b c oh why on one of your most beautiful gulf islands can you not provide clear and consistent answers to these basic questions in any of your visitor information provided materials an example might help to illustrate this point my dear husband and i ventured onto beautiful salt spring island this past weekend we were excited to take in the saturday market in ganges and to experience some of the hiking trails that salt spring had to offer we were armed with a hiking trails guide book and we also stopped by the visitor information centre to retrieve maps of some popular hiking trails we were prepared or so we thought one of the hikes we attempted was to baynes peak on mount maxwell our guide book provided the following instructions to drive to the trailhead on fulford ganges road turn southwest onto cranberry road to hobbs road swing left south at the t junction and take mount maxwell road to the main parking lot the pavement ends at the 4km mark parts of the 9km route may be rough the road is not suited to trailers and rvs from hiking trails ii south central vancouver island and the gulf islands ok so we were on mount maxwell road in no time as soon as we turned onto the road the pavement ended that must mean 5 km to the main parking lot then sure well five or so kilometres later we were indeed in the main parking lot but said parking lot unbeknownst to us actually represented the end of the hike not the trailhead there were picnic tables full of families who had driven up for the day and nary a hiking boot nor bead of sweat was evident on any one of them this is how we came to hike down a mountain rather than up if you are ever thinking of doing this one day it s not really recommended for one thing nothing beats the exhilarated rush of scaling a mountain by foot and finally being rewarded with a spectacular view honestly it s kind of anti climactic going from majestic panoramics up above to dark moss down below tree level still nice but anti climactic secondly going down a mountain from the get go means you still have to go back up to return to your vehicle so the pain and suffering of the whole ordeal gets moved to the end of the hike come on you sweat on the way up at the beginning and scamper all carefree like on the way down at the end that s how it should go in any case down the mountain we hiked following our trusty visitor information centre provided map and also consulting our very concise and clear hiking guide book instructions instructions at baynes peak 4 you will find the best viewpoint the main viewing area near the sheer bluffs is fenced from here you can hike northwest to find more viewpoints the walk back to 1 is clearly marked you can pick a route through open forest 2 where there is limited roadside parking if you follow the park road east about 300m you ll find a minor sometimes indistinct trail 3 which winds through salal mainly along the north boundary there are no trail markers you can estimate the boundary by the size of the trees within the park avoid the south side trails some are extremely dangerous only the trails from 4 to 1 are maintained um yeah surprisingly truly i m shocked we got a little lost on the hike we started off on what must have been the south side trails not marked at all beautiful and well trodden but not at all marked marty posing next to the extremely precipitous dangerous drop off which had so lovingly been written onto our hand drawn map in 45 minutes or so we came to a dead end and the road back up we were so not going to hike the road back up so rustic so we crossed the road and discovered another trail this one was marked with neon orange reflective tape and sometimes with neon orange reflective tiles that had been nailed onto trees we figured we must be somewhere back on the mysterious route from 4 to 1 but even when walking in a straight line on the same trail we discovered that some of the tiles had the number 2 scrawled on them whereas others had the number 1 the number 3 the number 5 and even gary s trail etched in permanent marker on them so where the hell were we don t get me wrong the trail was still beautiful and we were pretty certain that we would get back to our van so long as we eventually hiked up but how long would it take did we have enough food and water would we make it to the lavender farm afterward in time to take a tour before it closed how much longer was this trail to all of these questions we didn t have the foggiest idea of an answer more time passed in the confusing sea of randomly numbered tiles and suddenly we came across this some other hiker it seemed had clearly been frustrated in this forest before and had taken it upon himself to laminate a little card of directions and hammer it to a tree how thoughtful and then again soon after heading in the direction that was so helpfully pointed out by mr lamination we saw another novel trail marker this just happens to be a lid from a yogurt container that has been scribbled on in permanent marker and tacked to another tree note to b c when your hikers have to resort to guerrilla trail marking tactics perhaps it is time to invest in some decent and preferably topographical maps and trail markers come on now the laminated sign and the yogurt containers proved to be the most clear directions we had received all weekend we instinctively trusted in these rudimentary signs even though their directions led us through a jumbled sea of more tiles marked 1 2 3 4 5 and now frosty trail eventually we ended up back at the top taking in the majestic views again and this time at least a little sweaty but cursing our stupid not to scale hand drawn map and our convoluted guide book we arrived at the lavender farm exactly 4 minutes before they officially closed luckily we were still able to tour the farm on our own time but b c had we known exactly how long the trail was and exactly where it was going we could have planned our hike accordingly and finished it up with oodles of time to spare a novel concept i know but come on all the other provinces are doing it posted by dana at 7 07 am 1 comment labels hiking friday june 6 2008 hopelessly devoted to you back in calgary i used to work out at the u of c fitness centre at the time some of my friends bought memberships to other gyms feeling that the fitness centre at school was much too elitist and meat market y many olympic athletes train there and yeah i can definitely see how it might be a wee intimidating i was too cheap and broke to explore other options i figured that since the cost of my fitness centre membership was included and mandatory in my school fees i might as well take full advantage of it truthfully i didn t find the u of c gym to be too elitist or full of bar stars but it could be because i used to work out at the ungodly hour of 6 am at that time of the morning all of the people looking to score their next date at the gym were usually still hungover and or sleeping bless their hungover hearts no during my time there i was typically joined by a handful of elderly u of c alumni who would faithfully do their gentle walks around the track that was that and life was good when we first moved to victoria marty and i bought memberships to the least expensive club around the local rec centre it had many things going for it it was cheap it had recently been renovated and it was within a few minutes walk of our apartment however it was also crowded and small and did i mention crowded i hated it there and only managed to drag my grumbling ass over there for a few measly workouts for being the least expensive gym in town i sure ended up paying an exorbitant amount of money per workout if you re a geek like me and divide the total costs of things by the number of times you use them you know who you are after my membership expired at ye olde rec centre i hurried over to the ymca to give that a go what a difference it s large well equipped with both equipment and a variety of fitness classes diverse and just a few blocks away from my work plus i m now able to see why my friends gave up the u of c to come to a y every size and shape of person works out at the y and it s way less intimidating than the u of c could be at the y you still see people working out in the latest lululemon attire but you also see a wide array of people sweating it out in an oversized 80s t shirt and a ratty old pair of shorts and yes there are the people who are carefully groomed and well manicured at the y but then there are also those who are more disheveled and who don t give a rat s ass what they look like for their workout i love it there i like not giving a passing thought to the fact that my own workout attire is now a full 10 years old and a little droopy on the bottom half bought back in the day when bigger baggier meant better i like feeling like i am somewhere in the middle of the crowd not the shortest or tallest not the thinnest or heaviest not the coolest or most awkward not the most athletic or coordinated but also not the least athletic and coordinated yes yes the y here takes away most of the pressure and distractions that can characterize the gym atmosphere and makes it possible to focus on the only thing that really matters there my workout however i have developed a keen sense of self consciousness in one area in particular despite the y being home to a global village mishmashed group of people working out it still seems that mostly everyone has one thing in common they all tend to sport an ipod or an mp3 player of sorts even the most disheveled looking old men in the faded neon t shirts and shocking yellow short shorts have their ipod minis nestled discreetly in the armbands on their upper arms i on the other hand still kick it old school and by old school i am not referring to the antiquities known as discmans no i m talking about something a little bit more old school still i work out with one of those yellow sony sport walkmans affixed to the waistband of my pants you know the ones the ones like this but more yellow still that were really cool in the 90s when sweatbands and shimmery spandex leggings were the workout attire of choice i still have one it s big and yellow and instead of easily selecting which tracks to listen to while i m sweating it out on the elliptical machine i have to listen to the tracks on my mix tape remember those in order fastforwarding or rewinding is extremely slow on this machine and wastes the batteries big time plus the auto flip button on the walkman broke sometime in the 90s i m sure so when one side of the tape is finished i have to suffer the awkwardness and embarrassment of opening the shell and manually flipping the tape oh the shame i know that ipods and mp3 players have become so much more affordable than they used to be and i also know that even the least technologically adept of people can download music onto their ipods so why don t i have one yet i have no idea i feel morbidly self conscious flashing my giant cassette player around at the gym and yet no ipod to make everything better at this point in time the truth is i really like the mix tapes i made nearly a decade ago i used to borrow random cds from the library and record a song or two from each onto my tapes alas i wasn t really clued into the whole demise of the cassette tape trend until it was much much too late and now i have a bunch of really good and random did i mention i didn t write down any of the artists or song titles non replicable mix tape material very smart music on a bunch of tapes that need to be played in my hot yellow walkman tell me how cool i am again yeah i know posted by dana at 6 42 am 2 comments labels li l ol me thursday june 5 2008 wanted a czech translator marty and i are hoping that you or somebody you know can speak both fluent english and fluent czech at an adult level you see possibly the most generous and wonderful woman we know in all of czech republic zdena has fallen very ill with colon cancer the prognosis is not good already she looks and feels sickly enough that she is refusing to have any visitors lest they see her in her weakened state marty s parents who only visit their home country once every three years had to settle for a visit with her husband alone because zdena was too uncomfortable to visit with them too during our visit we stayed in a suite in their house for nearly 3 months zdena was always happy to indulge my sweet tooth and her own pictured here with our favourite geisha brand chocolate bar we cried when we heard this news now we are hoping to send her a heartfelt letter alas there are two complicating factors 1 zdena only speaks czech she and i had many moments of laughter trying to communicate without marty acting as a translator i know only enough czech to tell her nerozumim i don t understand her english is limited to words like happy and rainbow 2 marty s czech vocabulary is not sophisticated enough to tell zdena everything we feel in czech he was brought to canada from cz when he was only 8 years old so his czech is rather elementary literally are you able to translate our english letter into czech do you know of somebody who can translate our letter for us we are happy to compensate you for your efforts if you are interested and capable please e mail marty at marty at martycultural dot com marty martycultural com thank you so much posted by dana at 7 21 am 1 comment labels misc older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me dana i like depeche mode a lot view my complete profile ch ch ch ch check em out crafty bird crazy aunt purl cute overload eidolon found magazine indigirl knitfish knitting grammy lunapads m ad renaline meg fowler passiveaggressivenotes com people s republic of jasministan postsecret reconstructed string theory suzen knits teen girl squad the arrow of time the natural bardo thinking difference tweetness while tangerine dreams yarn harlot yarn over here satisfy your wanderlust depeche 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