Cougar sightings may be rare in B.C.’s backcountry, but coming across a guy with a fluorescent orange steel door strapped to his back? That’s unheard of—almost. This August, a team of seven volunteers from UBC’s Varsity Outdoor Club carried the door and necessary installation hardware and tools 2-3 hours to Brian Waddington Hut (commonly referred to as Phelix Hut) near Pemberton. The project was funded by an FMCBC [...]
Work hasn’t stopped for the builders and volunteers of the Ancient Forest Trail Boardwalk, an interpretive trail near Prince George that winds through some of the province’s oldest temperate inland rainforest. Since opening to rave reviews in 2013, the wheelchair-accessible boardwalk has been both extended (by more than a kilometre) and widened (to allow visitors to pass freely and safely while enjoying the forest). The Caledonia Ramblers Hiking [...]
The South Okanagan Trails Alliance (SOTA) is building and maintaining trails with increased efficiency this fall with the help of some new, powerful equipment. A recipient of an FMCBC Member Club Grant earlier this year, SOTA put the funds towards the purchase of two Milwaukee cordless tool batteries. “The batteries work perfectly,” said Andrew Drouin, founder and director of SOTA. “The mobility that it has provided us in [...]
The Sigurd Creek Trail in Tantalus Provincial Park near Squamish is a kilometre longer than it was this time last year thanks to the efforts of a small crew of BCMC volunteers. After spending five days extending the Sigurd Trail into the Moraine Camp in October 2014 (and another several days building the Sigurd Creek Bridge in 2012), a work party of three returned this past August to [...]
Volunteers hard at work on the Ancient Forest Trail, which is being upgraded this summer thanks to support from an FMCBC Member Club Grant. Since 2012, all donations received by the FMCBC have gone towards grants that allow member clubs to improve trails, upgrade huts, purchase tools and run community events. During the FMCBC’s AGM in Courtenay on May 23rd, the Member Club Grant Committee presented awards [...]
