Living the best adventure life, since 1958
October 7th, 2023
~ submitted by Greg Deabler
A perfect weather day with unseasonable warm temps for mid October. After dropping a vehicle at the unjudges route trailhead we headed up the road to the climber’s trailhead and got started about 9am.Â
Continue reading “Mount Arrowsmith traverse (West Ridge to South Summit descending the Unjudges Route)”
September 30th, 2023
~ submitted by Mary Hof
Today I led a group of 8 on a hike to Mt. Apps for the Island Mountain
Ramblers.
Mt Apps is the second highest summit in the Beaufort Range and overlooks the east
coast of Vancouver Island as well as the Alberni Valley to the west and south.
It also presents excellent views of the southern part of Strathcona Provincial
Park to the northwest. We could see forever today.
September 7, 2023
~ submitted by Mary Hof
After some late cancelation, we had 2 Ramblers and 1 guest. I learned from this hike you don’t want a whole lot of people as it takes time to go down the ropes without rocks flying on the person below.
September 1, 2023
~ submitted by Su Castle
We started at the Prospectors Trail in Goldstream and followed the route for the 28 km Finlayson Arm trail run route, at a hike pace.
Hike time was just under 8 hours, breaks about 40 min in total. Weather was fantastic.
August 20, 2023
~ submitted by John Robertson
We left Raven Lodge in a faint haze of smoke. Good conversation made the hike up past Lady Lake fly by. We exchanged pleasantries with groups of weekend campers making their way out as we headed in. We found the route towards Ball Lake fairly easily, and set off on our adventure.
August 14 – 18, 2023
~ submitted by Brian Fleming
Five Ramblers spent five days rambling the Augerpoint Traverse, visiting five summits along the way. Â It ended up being a 52km hike with approximately 4376m of elevation gain
in the middle of a heat wave.
August 9 – 11, 2023
~ submitted by Brian Fleming
Six Ramblers went exploring Flower Ridge on August 9th to the 11th.
July 30th, 2023
~ submitted by Adrian Glavan
The weather was just right, not too hot and with some breeze at the top.
June 5th, 2023
~ submitted by Matthew Lettington
After a few last-minute changes to the roster, Julianna teamed up with Matthew to lead this wander through Sooke.  The highlight was walking a few of the less-used trails in the region. Â
July 15th, 2023
~ submitted by Matthew Lettington
Another day in paradise! Our group of eight had a luxurious day on the slopes of Mount Maquilla.
In June, Jes and Matthew found this easy route up Mount Maquilla. I described the route as minimal bush, and I’ll stand by that statement. The majority of the bush is found on the overgrowing road, but even that has been trimmed over the years. It wasn’t much more than a minor annoyance.
