Starting selfie When you've been walking together for as long as most of us have, you'll sometimes find yourself retracing your own footsteps, and posing for group selfies in familiar settings (the theme of this year's walks is Loopers' Greatest Hits, so I suspect that this sense of deja vu will itself become increasingly familiar; …
Continue reading 2023 February 5: Fraserview trails and the Fraser River
Ending selfie - last of the year! 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 …
Continue reading 2022 December 4: Lighthouse Park to Horseshoe Bay
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 …
Starting selfie (with a levitating Joette) 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 …
Starting Selfie 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 …
Continue reading 2022 March 6: White Rock to the Nicomekl River
Starting Selfie (minus Jon) This month's Looper walk may be the first one to be moved to accommodate the weather. Originally we were to wander through the woods of the Hollyburn plateau, touring the lakes which are scattered there: First, Blue Gentian, West, and Lost. As we approached our deadline, though, snow began to fall …
Starting selfie 'Twas a hot and dusty Sunday afternoon when fifteen (15) Loopers plus a dog (Ms Maisie) gathered for their August walk, at the Aldergrove Regional Park. Loopers came from all directions (correction: exclusively from the west) to participate. It is worth noting — and celebrating! — the fact that this was only the …
Most Loopers have now had their first vaccination shot, but Covid numbers in BC are still relatively high, so people opted to keep their walking groups small again: six or fewer, and to stay (generally speaking) within their local zones. One core Looper had to reluctantly sit out this month's walk, due to an uncooperative …
Post walk zoom gathering Two days before our February Looper walk, Dr. Bonnie Henry announced that the orders which have restricted daily life and socialization in B.C. were going to stay in place indefinitely. "We need to protect the progress we have made," she stated; which, translated into Looperese, meant that this month's walk was to …
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