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Randonneur rules: not just stuffy tradition

July 5, 2010

“Never before have so many spectating cyclists and participants felt so compromised by … disrespect of the rules. The first 12 or 15 [finishers] have no respect for the organizers, the officials and all who make PBP a celebration of perseverance in the quest to complete this difficult ride. They do not deserve the name […]

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Should Victoria’s Johnson Street Bridge be repaired or replaced?

July 1, 2010

Victoria’s Johnson Street Bridge has seen better days; that much everyone can agree upon. The 85 year-old structure–designed by Joseph Strauss, who later went on to design the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco–suffers from erosion of its foundations, corrosion of its supporting members and the mechanism that raises it to allow passage of large […]

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For what it’s worth: Toronto G20 Summit

June 28, 2010

Rebel Grrl, Seattle 1999 Unless you had the TV turned off, avoided newspapers and disconnected social media channels over the weekend it would be hard to have missed the spectacle on the streets of Toronto, surrounding the G20 Summit. As a veteran of other protests against the established economic order, I was glued to the news. […]

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On the edge: my first technical climbs in the Purcell Mountains

June 23, 2010

“I know that I cannot do justice to this Alpine paradise: on my first visit to this basin, I wrote in my diary, ‘This is one of the most beautiful and charming spots that I have seen on this continent.’” ~Conrad Kain (1928), Where the Clouds Can Go On an autumn day in 1976, as […]

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Vancouver Island Poems

June 21, 2010

First of all, Happy Summer Solstice! Vancouver Island is a haven for artists. Certainly it has its share of writers, painters and other creative workers scattered along its length and on the nearby Gulf Islands. On my first forays to “The Rock,” I left with scribbled notes — some complete poems and snippets of verse that […]

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Romance and the Stone: A Kootenay climb

June 16, 2010

Since posting a couple of Squamish climbing accounts from the 80s, I’ve been thinking I should produce a more chronological series of stories about my brief mountaineering career. Here then, is the tale of my first “real” mountaineering trip. In my teens, I was an avid hiker in the Coast Mountains near Vancouver, but it […]

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