Starting Selfie Seventeen Loopers met up at the Hayward Lake Recreational Area just west of Mission for a walk along the Hayward Lake Railway Trail, a trail which follows the western edge of Hayward Lake (and according to BC Hydro's page on Hayward Lake, the lake was "named after Stave Falls Dam's first production superintendent," …
Continue reading 2023 November 5: Hayward Lake Railway Trail
Starting selfie, Hugo Ray Park, West Vancouver This month's group walk was a land-based version of the salmon's migration route: making our way upstream until encountering a dam, then downstream again (your task is to itemize the many ways in which our route was not like the salmon's; to start you off: no spawning was …
Continue reading 2023 August 6: Capilano River Regional Park
Annie, overlooking the Chilliwack River Our May Looper walk in Chilliwack accidentally put the group at great risk, as we came dangerously close to being swept into an infinite recursion while following the trails. Yes, not only did we Loop in the Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve, we Loop-de-Looped, with one loop enclosing another and …
Continue reading 2023 May 7: The Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve
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 …
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