Vancouver, British Columbia/Accessibility
This is a project to show the difficulty of geohashing in Vancouver. All distances are one-way from Robyn's house, in roughly the middle of Vancouver. Driving times are from Google Maps. Cycling times allow 20 km/h. Walking allows 8 km/h on good trails ranging down to 400 m in an hour in dense bush with poor footing. Kayaking is 5 km/h, which accepts that we aren't very good at kayaking and includes an allowance for launching. Ferry times are not included in water figures but are taken account of in total times.
From last, is the distance from the previous location, were I doing the endurance geohash. Such distance does not allow for getting to and from a safe place to camp between geohashes.
The times for the hikes are taken from bivouac.com. Many of them involve mountaineering or circuitous routes that make it much further than the straight line distance shown.
The last column "Excuse" is why I did not attempt/reach the geohash. Or "None needed!" if I got there.
Some of these look to be only a few kilometres from access roads but experienced hikers at bivouac.com report them as multi-day hikes. I'm uncertain whether the terrain is that bad or the apparent access roads are unusable. -Robyn 18:08, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
| Date | Location Description | Route | Road | Water | Bush | Total travel | From last | Excuse | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-03-31 | Shore of Howe Sound just south of Woodfibre | Drive to Britannia Beach, then kayak across | 60.9 km | 3 km | 1 h 39 | N/A | 40 kt winds | ||
| Bike to Britannia Beach then kayak across | 3 h 36 | N/A | |||||||
| Go all the way around by road/trail (requires fording Squamish River) | 71.5 km | 300 m | 15 km | 3 h 45 | N/A | ||||
| 2009-04-01 | In the water at the north edge of Howe Sound just northeast of Woodfibre and only a few kilometres from yesterday's location. | Drive to north of Britannia Beach, then kayak across | 64.7 km | 3 km | 1 h 55 | 3 km | Gale warning in effect. | ||
| 2009-04-02 | 8 km into Georgia Strait, nearest land is near Wilson Creek. | Drive to Horseshoe Bay, ferry to Gibsons, drive to point near Wilson Creek, then kayak | 50 km | 8 km | 3 h 56 | 85 km | Ferry cost | ||
| Same route by bike with inflatable kayak and pump in trailer. | 5 h 10 | Far! | |||||||
| 2009-04-03 | Near the peak of Zenith mountain, in the Tantalus range, 7 km west of the Squamish River. | Drive to Skowishin Graveyard Indian Reserve 10, hike up mountain on foot. Probable deep snow. | 104 km | 7 km | few days | 132 km | This is a multi-day trip | ||
| 2009-04-04 | Close to the middle of Georgia Strait, about 11 km from nearest land in Nanoose | Drive/ferry to Nanoose. Kayak 11 km. | 103 km | 11 km | 5 h 20 | 162 km | 11 km into open ocean in a kayak? | ||
| 2009-04-05 | On the north slope of Mount Jimmy Jimmy in the Tantalus Range | Drive to Coin Creek, hike up mountain | 117 km | 3 km | 3 h 15 | 152 km | Probably too much snow. | ||
| 2009-04-06 | On a ridge a little under a kilometre east of the Squamish Highway, just south of Swift | Bus to Horseshoe Bay, bike to abeam, hike. | 95.6 km | 900 m | 5 h 30 | 60 km | Long bike | ||
| Drive to point abeam before hiking | 2 h | I think I'll try it. |
If you're going for today's (7 april) can I come along? -Rhonda
