2022 December 4: Lighthouse Park to Horseshoe Bay
You couldn’t ask for a better walk to end the year with: on a perfect fall day, with crisp air, and clear, blue skies. For this, the final walk of 2022, most of us had chosen to park at the Gleneagles Community Centre just above Horseshoe Bay, and catch the 250 bus to the walk’s…
2022 November 6: Park Royal to Lighthouse Park
21 Loopers gathered for this month’s walk on the Spirit Trail just south of the Park Royal Mall. With umbrellas deployed, the group headed down to Ambleside Park and westward along the shore of English Bay. We strolled through Ambleside Park, past Ambleside Village, and along the seawall walk to Dundarave. The crew broke into…
2022 October 2: Kitsilano to Park Royal
We left some cars at Clyde Avenue in West Vancouver and headed to the meeting point at Trafalgar and Point Grey Road, where eighteen people assembled. (Our leader vows there will be no car shuffling in 2023.) It was a glorious day, warm and sunny …
2022 September 4: UBC to Kitsilano
We all knew that summer had to end sometime; we just didn’t expect it to end while we were walking. This month’s segment of the “USA to Horseshoe Bay” walk began where last month’s segment ended: with 19 Loopers (among them two newcomers) gathering for the traditional starting selfie in front of Nobel Park at…
2022 August 7: Marpole to UBC
18 Loopers assembled near Nobel Park in Westbrook Village at UBC, sorted ourselves into 4 cars and departed for our starting point, the Marpole Midden, a National Historic Site located in Marpole Park. After a shady starting selfie by the midden monument the group headed out. At the western corner of the park was a…
2022 July 3: Steveston to the Arthur Laing Bridge
Twenty-two of us met in the parking lot of the shopping mall outlet near the airport. It was a cool, damp day, as will be guessed from the sky, the general dress code, and umbrellas. Although there are always diehard wearers of shorts. After some minor confusion, followed by only moderately advanced arithmetic, half of…
2022 June 5: Massey Tunnel to Steveston
In order to maintain long-standing Looper traditions, our June Looper walk went ahead as usual on the first Sunday of the month, despite the absence of a core group of regulars, who (as many know) were temporarily AWOL, establishing a Looper outpost in Italy. In an attempt to “connect across space and time,” six of The Absent Eight…
2022 May 1 – Ladner and Deas Island Regional Park
Eighteen Loopers met at the east end of Deas Island Regional Park, under somewhat cloudy skies. Our 10:30am start was delayed slightly as the west side contingent were forced to navigate their way through the Vancouver Marathon traffic re-routing. We initially headed to the west along the north side of the park, facing the south…
2022 April 3: Boundary Bay to Tsawwassen
This was a reversed and slightly modified version of Walk #22 in The Clapham Bible (aka Great Walks of Vancouver, Second Edition). We walked along the dykes of Boundary Bay, with a brief foray through the Beach Grove neighbourhood and the Centennial Beach park at the end. There was car shuffling, allowing us to leave…
2022 March 6: White Rock to the Nicomekl River
At the risk of jinxing us for April, I have to say that the Loopers have been on a “good weather” roll so far this year, with Sunday, March 6th being another spectacular day for a group walk: blue sky; crisp air. Our March walk marked the proper start of the 2022 Looper project, which…
2022 February 6: South end of the Burrard-Fraser Connector
Twenty-three Loopers convened at Forest Grove Park on the south slope of Burnaby Mountain. It was a beautiful sunny morning and the sun stayed with us throughout the day. After a round of introductions to a couple of new Loopers, the group posed for the starting selfie and then headed out. First challenge of the…
2022 January 2: North Burrard-Fraser Connector
The weather was supposed to be frightful (featuring slushy snow and freezing rain). But, although it wasn’t one of those crisp, sun-and-snow days we enjoyed last week, it wasn’t bad. And twelve hardy Loopers showed up to walk. The route was a compromise from the start. Originally this year, we were going to start at…
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