Well, its been a year since I started blogging and created Outdoor Vancouver. Here’s a look back at the beginning, the highlights, what I’ve learned, and what’s next! Recap & Learnings After searching the web for a Vancouver focused outdoors blog and not finding anything (besides one that hadn’t been updated in over a year), […]
Cause Of Avalanche Deaths For Canadian & European Victims Differs
An article from CBC highlights a new study showing that Canadian avalanche victims are far more likely to die of traumatic injuries than our European counterparts. (Maybe I should have a better post for Valentines day?) Suffocating in snow is commonly thought to be the main cause of death from avalanches, but researchers say traumatic […]
New Stats On Cycling & Walking In Vancouver
Vancouver recently released the latest report on cycling and walking in the city. The report goes into great detail, breaking down the numbers by region with some pretty charts and pictures, but Frances Bula has done a great recap of the numbers on her blog: – just over 40 per cent of people who live […]
Solving Avalanches’ Mysteries
Here’s a very interesting article from the New York Times about a group of researches who are studying avalanches in a 2 million dollar ‘cold lab’ at Montana State University, in hopes of being able to better forecast them. There have been 31 avalanche related deaths in North America so far this winter season, 15 […]
Thieves Prowling Local Ski Hills
Just a quick post about an article in the Province today, about a spike in ski / snowboard thefts and Seymour and Cypress. You have to feel bad for the guy who had his new $800 board swiped! Lock up your gear if you care about it!! Louis-Philipe Beauchamp has been carving the local slopes […]
Grouse & Whistler Avalanche Awareness Days
This weekend (Jan 10 & 11) the AdventureSmart team will be at Grouse Mountain for Avalanche Days. They will be there to provide information on outdoor safety and snow awareness, and you will be able to participate in survival demonstrations. Meet them there between 8:30am and 3pm. Whistler is hosting the GORE-TEX ™ Deep Winter […]
