Submitted by Alli.Tai on 26 February, 2012 - 15:47
13 month old Amelita completed her first race today - she had her own chip and bib even!
She "raced" up the 48 flights of stairs at the Sheraton Wall Centre in 13:56... With a little help from her momma. Her favorite thing was waving and blowing kisses at the spectators - and stopping to drink at the water stations.
I am happy to say that outside of free coffee for everyone dressed up this Saturday for the Halloween Run, Terra Breads is giving away 2 gift baskets one for best costume and one for worst! Hope to see you all there!
Submitted by Alli.Tai on 8 September, 2011 - 22:45
Had a very lovely and very clear day of bagging. Started up bcmc to grouse and onto dam... Took the longer route rather than the one that follows the pipe since the pipe route looked slippery. Went past the helicopter pad to the rocky little summit and hiked it over to little goat which gave us a really great view of goat, crown and the valley between them. Goat was a little more scrambley and challenging but had a correspondingly amazing 360 view on this nice clear day.
Lovely sunday morning Seymour bag - pretty easy hike up. Bit snowy and slick near the top as well as a short but not too harrowing scramble to the peak. The trail was about 9k total. Ended up falling and landing in the reverse plank position (rather than flat on baby) while discussing what might occur should I fall backwards. Ama didn't even wake up from her nap but it sure gave me a jolt! Thankfully, I am happy with the outcome of what might happen should I fall backward. Somehow rolling, throwing myself forward, etc had occurred to me but the assumed position had not.
Been a while since I have blogged! Since, we did south Lynn. We had a look at the trail to the south needle and decided it was an all day kind of adventure. Anyone have any thoughts on this? I can't run with the baby backpack so it's a clippy walk for me at best. I didn't find this hike anything to really write home about (it was overcast so no views anywho)... But a good punch on my mornings long run and a reminder to weight Ama - she is getting heavy!
We also hiked garibaldi for some extra curricular hiking. That makes for a nice easy trip.
The week started out with Ama's six month birthday. We hiked all three peaks of the chief monday. Loved the climbing portion with chains and latters... And the views were amazing! Today we hiked with daddy and friend, Tamar, up black and then strachan. Black was a good warmup for the snowy ascent up strachan. As I ate my cheese and crackers roaming about so as to appease Ama, I felt fully in my role of mule, trying to get some grass in as my master pressed me on. Where can one purchase a tiny whip for tiny hands to really get the look?
The hike up to Lynn peak was of a fairly gental grade and easy to follow trail. We parked at Lynn headwaters lot, headed toward rice lake and up the trail to the peak from the loop trail. I would think most could manage it in three hours walking, maybe two running? Ama, the bagging baby enjoyed the trip and spent most of it squealing... Presumably to ward off bears.
My first bag of the year actually took two goes. The first time we followed the 103 hike book (ok attempted) and found ourselves at the tower below the top with not quite enough time to make it to the peak. Sad start given the fact this one is rated one of the easiest... But nevertheless we chalked the initial trip up to an exploration hike and a chance to put on our hiking boots (ok old trail runners).
From our experience, I would ignore Matt hill trail and follow mount Gardner trail north and then continue left at the handloggers fork.
