It’s considered one of the top 25 toughest running competitions in North America. The knee knacker takes 200 runners across nearly 50 kilometres of the North Shore mountains – and frog marches them through 16,000 feet of elevation gains and losses. Karl, a lifelong runner, is entered for the upcoming July 7 race; his name […]Read Post ›
Sand and tidal flats and the feeling you can walk forever. That’s the Fraser River Estuary at Boundary Bay in Delta, glittery with afternoon post-winter light this past weekend. The city shimmered in the first heat of the season as herons stood in the still water and waited, poised like an endlessly held breath. I […]Read Post ›
We are on an evening walk at Stanley Park, accompanied by buffleheads and goldeneye, herons and mergansers, seals and and otter, and even the occasional human. By the time we round Lost Lagoon after 8 p.m., a beaver is swimming beside the path as bats dart in the falling dark; two mute swans are milling […]Read Post ›
