Category Archives: trip/training report

Use for all reports of SKABC training sessions or trips. Reports can include a write-up and/or photos/videos. If it includes photos/videos, also use the tag photo/video links.

Thormanby Trip Report Link Sept 5-7, 2014

Joan Boxall: SKABC member, blogger, poet, and travel writer, had some fun on a (horse)-racy Thormanby Islands trip. Read all about it on her blog, http://www.joanboxall.com/horsing-around-thormanby-island-british-columbia/  

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Deer Group Trip Report – June 22-28, 2014

The trip started off very badly for me. I had just bought a new Greenland paddle, a high-tech blade made out of armalide. Armalide is a semi-mythical material, like mithril, supposedly indestructible by anything short of dragon fire. It worked … Continue reading

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Anvil Island Trip Report – Sunday August 17, 2014

Seven people signed up for the trip but three people cancelled two days before the trip. The remaining participants, Maureen Benzon, Heather Kirk and Earl Elliott and myself met at at Porteau Cove provincial park which was surprisingly busy at … Continue reading

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Trip Report – Broken Islands Group May 25-30, 2014

Our six-person group – Graham, Geoff, Ted, Cathy, Joan and John – rendezvoused in the Port Alberni Tim Hortons at 11:30 am on the morning of Sunday, May 25. From here we drove in convoy through light rain in the … Continue reading

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Bowen Island Trip Report – April 13, 2014

We caught the 9 am ferry from Horseshoe Bay made our way over to Bowen Bay and launched about 10:20 . Conditions were almost perfect with a slight outflow wind and a small ebb tide making the paddle over to … Continue reading

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