Weekend Hikes

More hikes (training) this last weekend.

1) Saturday - Great trail in East Sooke Park - Allard Farm to Babbington Hill using the interior trail, down to Cabin Point for a lunch and returned using the coastal trail. Beautiful day!

2) Sunday - Sooke Hills - from Pot Hole parking lot to Grassy Lake to Pedden Lake back the parking lot. Nice trail but did a little bushwaking because we tried some new trails off the Galloping Goose!

3) Monday - Mt Doug Park - up and down three times to maximize the elevation gain (and loss) - I think we got around 400+ meters of gain for a short 90 minute session. Great park to train, the trails are pretty steep and varied with loose rocks and rock faces...

Still carrying our 20+ kilo pack on all our trails to get use to it - feeling good and ready for Corsica!

Cheers,

Corsica - GR20 Training

Well it's July and we're in final preparation for the GR20 treck. 25kilo bags on our back and hiking as much as possible in our beautiful West Coast mountains. Julie and I were up in Whistler for a quick up and down of Wedgemount - nasty little 14k with 1,200m up and 1,200m down. We managed to complete it under five hours. I think we hit the only sunny days Whistler is seeing these days.

In the meantime at home we're hiking even for groceries with our heavy backpack...

I'll start bloggin a bit more often in the coming days - in prep for the departure! Cheers.