Anodyne
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
 
100K club -- cjb & Team Cat

A truly gorgeous day, more like late May than mid-March, with a negligible snowpack to boot. Mixed sunshine and mist, the latter peeling back as the day went on, disclosing views of Bowen Island, the Sunshine Coast, the West Lion. Later, at twilight, Georgia Straight pink and placid, scored by the wake from a tug and barge off Point Grey.

Nanaimo's lights winking like an airport runway in the dark.

Orion.

Or, in other words, another Team Cat extravaganza. Black Mountain summit from Horseshoe Bay highway overpass, via Black Mountain trail, Donut Bluff (super-steep) variation. Thence down to the Cypress Bowl parking lot, and, having determined that, a/ the skiier shuttle bus is no longer running, due to the whole mountain being closed (no snow on the runs), and, b/ that hitching down the sparsely trafficked road isn't really a possibility, on down to Caulfield Village, the last forty minutes or so in the dark, via a combination of the Powerline Trail, Transcanada Trail, and various manky old skid roads. Overpass 60m (BC Basemap), Black Mountain summit 1224m, plus 30m elevation bonus for assorted-up-and-down getting from the peak to the parking lot via the circuitious winter snowshoe route = 1194m. 2005 total: 5858m.

Rose T. Cat found a hefty watertight baggie of weed under one of the "balancing rocks" just before the grunt up to Donut Bluff. It isn't mine, and I left it alone, having passed that particular life stage six or seven years ago, but I can't imagine its lasting that long, even out in the middle of nowhere.
- posted by cjb @ 10:47 PM


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