Pure Outside

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 [...]

Just stumbed upon a new outdoor site, http://www.hike101.com/ , on another outdoor blog, http://www.outdoorvancouver.ca/2009/04/bcs-hiking-trail-conditions/ . The site is split up into two main sections. The first is their money maker and it’s for their basic up to advanced outdoor classes. The starter course if free but the range from $40 to $80 after that. The courses mainly [...]

“But I don’t even know where Green Mountain is?!?” That’s exactly what I said when I first heard about it. I thought I knew the area around Nanaimo fairly well. Mount Benson is right there. Blackjack ridge is right behind it. There’s a bit of a hill that some call Rutherford ridge, or rutherford flats, [...]