After four weeks of planning, V and I finally caught the weather and aligned days off to go and do the Grouse Grind and see Grouse Mountain before summer gasped its last breath. It was a gorgeous day, and I managed to get a few nice photographs. Apparently I was too shaken up to hold […]

A few weeks ago while summer was still in full swing, V and I visited Lynn Canyon on Vancouver’s North Shore. We chose it because it was a free alternative to the Capilano Suspension Bridge, and I can’t say we were disappointed. The Lynn Canyon bridge is built in a national park area of old-growth […]

About ten months ago I was fortunate enough to win a competition run by TJ Schiller, a professional skier, which allowed me to work with CoreUPT, a European freeski company, to place a design on the topsheet of their TJ Schiller Pro model ski for the coming 2010/2011 winter. I received a pair of the […]

I was walking around downtown with a friend who was passing through Vancouver from Australia on his way to study on the East Coast. We had an hour to kill, so we decided to head to the Vancouver Art Gallery. Unfortunately, entry was rather expensive at $19.50, so instead we decided to browse the gift […]

Over the last two weeks Vancouver has been in the grips of the Celebration of Light, an annual fireworks festival. The festival is in a competition format, and several countries compete for the best fireworks display. Not very environmentally-friendly, but pretty spectacular. We managed to catch all four shows from the USA, Spain, Mexico and […]