Trip Reports

Fraser River North Arm – May 14, 2022

Three tandem canoes set off from Burnaby’s Fraser Foreshore park on a rainy Sunday morning. Jim Slade, Jaime Adams, Peter Gutzman, Sue Mills, myself and daughter Melanie. Despite the rain, the trip exceeded expectations. The rain stopped shortly after ... More

Trip Report: Deep Cove: March 27, 2022

What started out as a bleak, grey cool day threatening rain ended up as a nice day with sunshine!  Never trust the weatherman here on the west coast. Our launch was at a new location that we were not familiar with so it turns out that both Mike and ... More

Trip Report: Lower Chilliwack River: Mar 27, 2022

This was supposed to be an Upper Chilliwack trip, but the river was a little high, had changed it’s course last fall, and I thought maybe it was better to paddle something else today. We opted for the Upper Seymour instead, but it never rose to a ... More

Trip Report: Mid – Coquitlam River 20 02 22

I had to write this trip report because I   _didn’t_   dump.   Three wolves and a sheep, as they say, had voted on lunch.   Who did dump?  I won’t say.  There were four of us.  Myself, Leigh B, ... More

Hatzic Lake Paddle 2021-08-08

With a mildly threatening forecast of possible rain we head out to the lake from our mustering point at the info center in Mission. As we get closer to the lake and a bit further into the mountains the clouds look a bit more ominous and there is light ... More

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Return to the Kettle – and guide to put ins and camping

We recently did a club presentation on the many family friendly canoe camping trips we've did on the Kettle River, near Rock Creek BC, when the kids were growing up. It inspired us to do a return to the Kettle after Rivers Week 2021, and to try out an ... More

Basic Paddlers – Thank You.

by Kate L Hello! Though sad to miss Rivers Week (next summer for sure!) Adam and I just got back from paddling the Bowron Lakes Circuit. We finished the trip in an easy 4.5 days but we're very grateful for the class during our trip. Water levels were ... More

Pam’s Widgeon Creek

Widgeon Creek For me this was my first, official BCC paddle, of 2021.   I was so happy to be joining my fellow BCC paddling friends.  We did have an early start so we could find parking spots, which meant that when we reached the picnic place we ... More

Widgeon Creek – June 6, 2021

Widgeon Creek June 6th, 2021                   Dave W   Why another report for this trip?  Well, our trip leader thought that there have been no trip ... More