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Fall 2009

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Stray horse

Strange late afternoon light made the clouds and contrail black. Deep fresh snow made the "trail breaker" earn his keep.
Warmer air moving in caused cancellation of Saturday's ski.

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Dec 10 & 12 - East Butte, Municipal ridge

The 1900 foot climb to the summit of the East Butte of Municipal Ridge kept us warm despite the minus 14 temp.

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Dec 6 - Municipal creek ridge

Saturday Dec 5th Margareta Hogeling led 8 of us to the NW top of Municipal Creek ridge. It snowed all day, making for great skiing, but little visibility.

 

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Dec 2 - East Butte - OK Falls Service Road

Today 6 of us skied to the top of East Butte km 48 of the Ok Falls Forest Service Road. Wonderful visibility. Could even see the Selkirk Mountains shining on the horizon to the far north east! Saturday on our club ski we could only see the trees near at hand. .

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Municipal Creek

A ski up the Municipal Creek network with Big White and the Monashee mountains in the background.

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Nov 14 - Hawthorne

Hike led by Guenther Hoernig. Perfect weather.

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Nov 11 - Stray Horse

3 of us checked out skiing conditions on the "Strayhorse" road network west of Apex Mountain; and found them to be amazingly good for this early in the season.

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Nov 7 - West side vaseux lake bluff

22 climbed above and south of the See Ya Later vineyards to cliffs above Vaseux Lake.

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Nov 4 - KM10 Summit

Today found 3 more humps forming the summit of the km 10 summit. Larches glowed golden.

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Oct 31 - KVR and Rock Ovens

Perfect weather to visit the GlenFir and Adra tunnels on the KVR; as well as checking out the 7 Rock Ovens used to dry the dynamite in 1913 used for blasting out the railway right of way.

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Mount Keagan exploratory hike

An exploratory hike. marking out a new route connecting the three summits of Mount Keagan.

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Oct 24 - Ridge above Vaseux Lake

11 led by Guy DuVent on Sat Oct 24, hiked the ridges overlooking Vaseux lake, starting at km 5 on the OK Falls Forest Service Road

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