Celebrating Larrie's 77th birthday a bit early, on July 5th On the morning of July 31, Heather let us know that Larrie had left us at 4:01 the previous afternoon. She and he were listening to La Vie en Rose, their wedding song, when Larrie passed. Larrie was one of the original Loopers, and I'm …
Continue reading Larrie Cook (July 15, 1947 – July 30, 2024)
Starting selfie #1 Our May Looper walk was organized and led by Annie and Jan, who had previously scouted out the trails surrounding Burnaby Mountain in search of a suitable route which incorporated the steepest of the hills. Nine of us met up at the usual 10:30 starting time, at the trailhead just opposite 7509 …
Leader: Jon Starting selfie: they shall not pass! Eighteen of us gathered on 4th Avenue at the south-east corner of Jericho Park, with several regulars missing for various reasons; you know who you are. At first it seemed as if we would start our Looper year with rain: there were clouds overhead at the start, …
Continue reading 2024 January 7: Spanish Banks / Pacific Spirit Park
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 …
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