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The Mission = Piggiot(sieve) Creek

Vancouver Island Mission Recently myself, Shayne Vollmers and Steve Johnson were able to get out and do Piggiot (sieve) Creek. This was originally done by a crew from TRL, TDub and Bellingham back in May of 2006 with some of the data supplied by Jan Dettmer, an original river daddy of Vancouver Island. By far…

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The Ash River… Upper and Lower

The Ash…. Not the other Ashes. A couple of weekends ago  got on the Ash river with some mates. Met up at the local Tim Hortons in Port Alberni for the pre river cup of Java and sweet pastries. From there it was a drive into the backwoods map territory of Vancouver Island. This is…

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The Alpine Browns

The Alpine Browns This jewel of a river is located in Courtenay. I have done a number of posts on the lower section and on the upper Browns. This section, apptly dubbed the Alpine, is located high up close to the old paradise meadows. First paddled a number of years back at a very low…

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Lower Browns River

The Browns River. This morning I woke up and headed off to physio at bodyworks, with a plan to meet Daniel Inskip at the Put in for the lower Browns river at 9:45 . This was my first day with my new boat, the Jackson 4fun. Will be covering more about this boat as time…

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Creeking on the Upper Nanaimo River

Upper Nanaimo River This past Sunday was a good one. Wished Mom a happy Mother’s Day, then it was on the road to meet up with Shayne, and Brian. Was good to see him again as it had been awhile. First learned to paddle with Brian back in Banff, AB. Super good to be out…

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