The Vitals Date: April 30 to May 10, 2025 Location: Yunnan, China Distance: ~350 km, some hiking Partners: Brittany Resources: Cycle Fiesta. We cribbed most of our itinerary from this trip report. The Trip Part 1 finished at approximately the half way mark of our tour in the town of Shaxi. This town is over […]
The Vitals Date: April 18 – April 29, 2025 Location: Yunnan, China Distance: ~340 km biked, 20 km dayhike Partners: Brittany Resources: Cycle Fiesta. We cribbed most of our itinerary from this trip report. The Trip Part 2 here In 2018 we spent a month riding over 1000 km in China’s southwestern Yunnan province. In […]
The Vitals Date: August 30 to September 1, 2025 Location: East of Lillooet Lake, BC Distance: ~55 km and ~4600 m of ascent Time: 3 days Partners: Alex and Dave Resource: Matt Gunn’s Scrambles in Southwest BC The Trip Peak bagging is usually not the goal in and of itself for a trip but the […]
The Vitals Date: August 8-11, 2025 Location: Near Campbell River, BC Distance: 40 km paddled, 8 km portaged Time: 4 days Partners: Brittany Resource: Sites and Trails BC brochure (outdated in terms of rec sites), an active Facebook group with recent condition reports. The Trip The two of us are soon to be the three […]
The Vitals Date: August 2-4, 2025 Location: North of Squamish, BC Distance: ~45 km (Map below shows 55 km but there are lots of glitches) Time: 3 days Partners: Christian and Jason Resource: VOC trip report 1, VOC trip report 2, Power Boyz, Useful waypoints listed at the end of this one The Trip A […]
The Vitals Date: May 18-19, 2025 Location: Similkameen River Distance: ~80 km Time: 2 days Partners: Alex, Dave, Christian Resource: Life of Luke The Trip Another from the wishlist when first constructing the DIY packrafts, the Similkameen was a perfect introduction to running rivers for a few fairly novice paddlers. I’ve gone canoe tripping a […]
The Vitals Date: August 31 – September 2, 2024 Location: Garibaldi Provincial Park, BC Distance: ~40 km hiked, ~12 km paddled Time: 3 days Partners: Brittany, Will, Alex, Dave Photos: Brittany The Trip The map below is approximate. This was the first overnight trips with the DIY packrafts and also one of the dream trips […]
The Vitals Date: August 2-5, 2024 Location: Squamish/Whistler, BC Distance: ~40 km Time: 4 days Partners: Brittany, Will, Christian Resources: Guapo Greg – Alcoholic Traverse Photos: Brittany The Trip We’ve come a long way since August 2016 when we did the Alcoholic Traverse as our first off-trail hike. Since then we’ve done many routes (like […]
The Vitals Date: June 21-28, 2024 Location: Mayrhofen, Austria Distance: ~90 km Time: 8 days Resources: Trekking in Austria’s Zillertal Alps, Austrian Alpine Club The Trip The Berliner High Route/Berliner Höhenweg/Zillertal Rucksack route is a hut-to-hut, multi-day hike in the vicinity of Mayrhofen, Austria. As a loop, it can be done in either direction staying […]
The Vitals Date: May 18 – 20, 2024 Location: Kamloops, BC Distance: ~200 km Time: 3 days Resources: Bikepacking.com The Trip The past few years have been low on bikepacking trips but we have managed a couple of routes from bikepacking.com including the Cowichan 8 and Texada Island routes. Part of the reason was a […]
The Vitals Date: February 3, 2024 Location: Lower Pitt River Distance: ~16 km Time: 4.5 hours Resources: Fenton Gauge – Pitt River The Trip It’s a bad winter for snow sports but a relatively warm and high-overcast day in February spurred a last-minute plan to paddle the lower Pitt River from Grant Narrows Park at […]
The Vitals Date: December 2022 – November 2023 Location: The basement Time: 75+ hours Resources: DIY Packraft The Summary Session Activity Time Total Time 1 Cut fabric 2.5 2.5 2 Seat 0.75 3.25 3 Seat 2 5.25 4 Seat 1.75 7 5 Seat 1.5 8.5 6 Seat 1 9.5 7 Seat 1.5 11 8 Seat […]
The Vitals Date: August 6-8, 2023 Location: Duffey Area, BC Distance: 40+ km Partners: Dave, Christian, Jason Resources: Scrambles by Matt Gunn, Various Photos: Dave and Jason The Trip Day 1 – Highway 99 to Rohr I went to Marriott basin in 2014 and scrambled some small peak to the west of Wendy Thompson hut […]
The Vitals Date: July 1 – 5, 2023 Location: Upper Sunshine Coast and Texada Island Partners: Brittany Resources: Bikepacking.com Powell River Sampler and Bikepacking.com Texada Photos: Brittany The Trip Day 1 – Saltery Bay to Inland Lake Provincial Park (44 km/44 km total) Saturday morning of Canada Day long weekend meant an early wakeup call […]
The Vitals Date: March 25 – April 2, 2023 Location: SE Nevada, SW Utah, NW Arizona Partners: Brittany Photos: Brittany The Trip Highlights At the end of winter in BC we thought we would take a different type of vacation than usual – one that was based around driving but still had lots of camping […]