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@Ben

Created 9 years ago

Mammut Avalanche Airbag For sale
https://vancouver.craigslist.ca/van/spo/6013882811.html

@Ben

Created 9 years ago

Photos of Park Damage
Have you visited our provincial parks lately and noticed any of the following? Broken, missing or vandalized signage Missing or damaged trail markers Trail braiding, exposed roots, broken or missin...

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Created 10 years ago

FMCBC AGM - Call for Volunteers
We need 2-3 volunteers to buy and serve (from the adjacent servery) breakfast and lunch snacks for the meeting. We still need more billets for Friday and Sat nights

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Created 10 years ago

FMCBC AGM - Call for Volunteers
We are looking for people to lead 1 local hiking trip on saturday. Also, 2 trips (one easier and one harder) for half a day on sunday. Ideally hiking trips but they could be anything including scrambi...

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Created 10 years ago

Watersprite Lake Cabin - January 12th Meeting
Hi Francis, To clarify, David resigned in an email to the executive June 10, 2015 and then recinded his resignation on June 21, 2015. It is not clear to me if you can actually resign and then just jum...

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Created 10 years ago

Watersprite Lake Cabin - January 12th Meeting
Hi Werner, Where are you registered as a Professional Engineer? Not in BC? Unless you go by a different name.

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Created 10 years ago

Water sprite Hut Post-Mortem
There is good discussion going on here. The problem is that we are not getting much progress on making things better. I did not attend the latest vote but if I would have attended I probably would hav...

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Created 10 years ago

Integral Designs 2 Person Tent
I have a 2 person 4 season single wall Integral Designs MK3 Tent for sale. It has been used for about 5 years but not really much within the last 3 years as I have replaced it with other tents that f...

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Created 10 years ago

Priority Trails for Upgrading FMCBC Initiative
This month, the FMCBC is beginning to collect input from member clubs on trails across the province that are in urgent need of upgrades or repairs to improve safety, access and/or usability. Based on...

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Created 10 years ago

Building Committee Minutes
While I think that a hut on the coquihalla has merit and personally would prefer one in that location I think that the Watersprite Lake area has merit as well. A hut in any other location would be at...

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Created 10 years ago

Proposed new policy for BCMC on hut construction
Is 2D not a stated goal of the watersprite lake hut?

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Created 10 years ago

Darling Lake Trail Section 57 Application
I want to start out saying that I am in general in favour of trail building. I support going through the process of asking Parks for permission to build a trail. As a respected organization the BCMC n...

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Created 10 years ago

Darling Lake Trail Section 57 Application
Hi Chris, Can you please show / provide your source where it is stated that you are "we are allowed to clear soft vegetation and to flag within the park" ? Further you reference the Wilderness Conser...

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Created 10 years ago

Darling Lake Trail Section 57 Application
Great work Chris! I like that you posted the details to the BCMC website. Keep us updated on how the talks go.

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Created 10 years ago

Building Committee Minutes
The drawings are nice. Can we rotate the ladder and have people come out in the standard 32" section? this would allow for an extra 2 people upstairs bringing the number of people to 18 (15 upstairs a...

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Created 10 years ago

Who wants a cabin on the Coquihalla?
I went for a trip near the proposed hut site on the west ridge of Llama. We parked just before the first bridge on the Ottomite road (not worth it just park at the rest stop). And hiked/scrambled Z...

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Created 10 years ago

Ralph Forester Hut trail?
I dont have anything for you. I was just in the area but our sights were not on climbing Robson. There is a general lack of information on bivouac about the area. some googling turns up some stuff. It...

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Created 10 years ago

Building Committee Minutes
Has anyone asked how much the Tenquille lake hut cost to build? we should find out that number for comparison.  The hut is massive. I think somewhere in the range of 30 to 50 people could sleep in it....

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Created 10 years ago

Who wants a cabin on the Coquihalla?
Francis, your pictures look great! From 2013: Coquihalla Summit Recreation Area Parking Scott Webster for the SW BC Recreation & Conservation Committee Some of our members have noticed new signs at t...

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Created 10 years ago

Pinecone Burke Provincial Park Presentation
This is tomorrow. I think it will be good!

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Created 10 years ago

Who wants a cabin on the Coquihalla?
Another option could be Zoa. I have only ever skied the ridge and maybe that is the only thing to ski there and it is limited. But is does fit the bill of high and outside the CRA. July looks sweet....

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Created 10 years ago

Building Committee Minutes
Does the BCMC have permission to build a trail? The sign at the trailhead says that we do however, at the last executive meeting we were told by Dave Scanlon that we did not have permission.

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Created 10 years ago

Building Committee Minutes
What is the plan for a trail to the hut? The current route contains a significant amount of swampy/wet areas, some flat and some steep and eroding. Has any consideration been given to the road on the...

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Created 10 years ago

Watersprite Lake Trip Reports and Photo Albums
I went for a quick hike up to Watersprite Lake after doing work on the Darling Lake Trail. I left the car at 6:10 and after a brief moment of worry where I was not sure if I was going the right way. L...

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Created 10 years ago

Building Committee Minutes
This is great to see some plans. Makes it seem more real and more exciting. I would tend to trust Scott for dimensions of sleeping space and knowing that I have spent many a night with thermarests tou...