John Muir, the famous naturalist and hiker, didn’t worry about the difference between walking and hiking when he said,“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out until sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”

Wednesday, April 22, 2015


Location: Vancouver, British Columbia

Hiked with: Gary

Route/trail: Seawall from the convention center through Stanley Park and then back through the city

Weather: 62 and sunny with a light breeze

Duration: all day (Sunday, 4.19.15), 21 miles

Altitudes/elevations/conditions: mostly flat

Sightings: sailboats, skulls, yachts and ships, seagulls, totem poles, mountains, ocean, an amazing bridge, a working canon and fires at 9 p.m. everyday, a seal, amazing public art in large ways of sculpture but also in small pieces like the manhole covers decorated with native peoples symbols, masses of tulips, friendly people

Gear/food: a lunch stop for Mongolian bar-b-que and an afternoon recharge from locally made gelato

Emotions, etc: what a treat to have an entire day like this...was so relaxed
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