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Monthly Night Hike IV
A full moon and a clear night sky. Another perfect day in paradise!
Don't pick a fight with our guys! They're trained trek pole duellists!
Another spectacular full moon and clear night sky over Cypress Provincial Park!
We headed up the Hollyburn Mountain trail and then veered over to the Upper Warming Hut for some hot chocolate.
Once it was time for home, the boys pulled their troop-issued crazy carpets out of their backpacks and rode them down the mountain trails all the way to the parking lot.
Good clean fun!
BTW…the horizontal string of lights in the background are the night skiing lights of Grouse Mtn. (4,039 ft) approximately 5 km away across the Capilano watershed and the valley containing Capilano Lake.
Monthly Night Hike III
January 10, 2012
Sometimes you have to change your plans when conditions change.
After checking the weather forecast this morning, I did just that. The forecast called for totally clear skies over the North Shore for the evening and I already knew that we had a full moon this week. That was enough to put out the call to the troop: scratch the regular meeting in the church – it’s time for our monthly night hike on Cypress!
We had perfect conditions and everyone really enjoyed our moonlit tour of Cypress. The biggest change since the last time we did this was the addition of all the night lighting and trail grooming for the cross-country skiers. We had to walk single file along the edge of the trails that we were used to being the sole users of at that time of night. Not tonight though. Dozens and dozens of skiers zoomed by us as we hiked along. Many were participating in an organized race.
We stopped at the Upper Warming Hut as usual and enjoyed a short break before heading back down the mountain into the bright lights of the Cypress Nordic Ski Area and then home.
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Scouter Jody
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