Pure Outside

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I’m an hour and a half into a 2 hour ascent to Century Sam Lake near the Comox Glacier.
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If you like this post make sure you check out Island Adventurer as well. Island Adventurer will be promote the best of Vancouver Island’s trails and events. Pureoutside will be focusing on the rest of the world!
If you have never heard of the Vancouver Island Spine Trail, you’re in for a nice surprise. The proposed [...]

Ever thought about hiking the entire length of Vancouver Island on a single well-mapped trail?
You will be able to soon. The Vancouver Island Spine Trail will allow you to do it.
Here is their latest progress up date straight from one of their organizers, Gil Parker.

VI Spine: A Trail from Victoria to Cape Scott
What [...]

Hiking is a huge outdoor activity on Vancouver Island. It should be. There are so many beautiful places, many within an hour of where you’re staying. Check back on this page as it will be continously updated with the best hikes on Vancouver Island.
Check out a crashed plane near Tofino.
Relax beside some long waterfalls on [...]

Flower Ridge: Lots of snow… and a few flowers

This trip started out as an unknown for me. It would take us into some country that I’d never even thought of going. I’d heard of this Strathcona Park place before but had never really seen any of it aside from the lodge perched on the side [...]

Hike to the Canso Bomber crash in Tofino
This hike was definitely an random adventure that turned out to be a lot of fun. We wanted to look for this plane that we had heard was in the area of Radar Hill in Tofino. We weren’t really sure where exactly to go but knew it was [...]