TrailRider First Ascent of Mt. Wells

Nairne McInnis and a team of thirteen porters and supporters, including two kids and one dog, reached the summit of Mt. Wells on Saturday afternoon, September 20, 2008. Karen van Dieren was the Alpine Club Trip Leader for this event.

As far as anyone can determine, this was the first successful ascent of Mt. Wells by anyone in a TrailRider. So, congratulations to Nairne and her hardworking TrailRider team!

Rolling Fall 2008/Spring 2009 TrailRider Hiking with the Disabled Schedule

1. Saturday, 4 October, Royal Roads, Roger Painter, 250-478-7745, morigardens@shaw.ca.

2. Saturday, October 18, Shawn Daniels, 250-595-5932, danielsshawn@hotmail.com.

3. Saturday, November 1, East Sooke Park, Mike Hubbard, 250-370-1096, mhubbard@provincialcourt.bc.ca.

4. Sunday, November 16, Mt. Wells, Karun Thanjavur, 250-383-6252, karun@uvic.ca.

5. Saturday, March 14, 2009, Taining Workshop, Mt. Douglas, Gerry Graham, 250-480-5580, geraldfgraham@gmail.com.

6. Saturday, March 28, 2009, Thetis Lake, Gerry Graham, 250-480-5580, geraldfgraham@gmail.com.

Shaw TV TrailRider Video Presented to ACC/VI Group at Swan Lake and Posted on YouTube

On Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008 Gerry Graham, coordinator of the local TrailRider Hiking with the Disabled Program, presented the three minute Shaw TV promotional video to the Alpine Club at Swan Lake Nature Centre. The video is of our August 23, 2008 Thetis Lake outing with Roy in the TrailRider. The video aired on Channnel 11, the local Shaw TV community channel in Victoria, British Columbia.

Gerry would be pleased to show the video, which exists in both DVD and VCR format, to your outdoors group, with a view to attracting fit and energetic porters.

Click here for a link to the video on YouTube.

Sept. 6, 2008 East Sooke Park Outing

We had another successful outing with Kedar today, at East Sooke Park. There were a total of fourteen of us on this outing. We made it to the Petroglyphs along the coastal path, and then inland to Beechey Head, where we had our picnic. After the event we all went back to Kedar's for pizza. This was our second outing with Kedar, the first being an ambitious ascent of Mt. Finlayson from the back, on May 24, 2008.

The plan is to get Kedar out at least once more this fall, on Oct. 18, on a schedule ACC/VI trip led by Shawn Daniels.