Womens Walking Group

Nine walked locally on a brisk sunny morning. It was an interesting walk watching a faller take a
large cedar tree down. It was 85 to 100 years old, 120 feet in height. and 4 feet at the base. The faller
is 15 feet from the top when he stops cutting branches and tops it. The tree then comes down in sections and 5 hours later it is all on the ground. He carries rigging lines, a lanyard for extra safety,
and the chainsaw. At times, also water and a lunch. The views are great. Duncan, Mt. Prevost, and
Mt. Baker can be seen. These men do earn their pay. On to the Chippery for our coffee and a treat.
Next week Monday 27th. we will walk through Dean Park. Meeting at the Legion at 10 am.   V. M.

Men's walking group

We got a little tast of the welderness around us today, Great walk, great weather, Great company. We did about 7 km up an old logging rd from Burnt Bridge. Next week is our day out, Meeting at the Legion at 8:30 and car pooling down to Elk lake for a 10 km walk, Then having lunch at the Bestro on the corner of Inter-erbin & Wilkinson getting back to the Legion by 2 pm.

Men's walking group

Good pictures Dennis thank You, To our new walker welcome to our group Brook. I'm sure we live in the best area of the country weather wise. I was hoping for a little more wind down on the beach. ha ha. Good walk.Next week we can try burnt bridge area. Also we plan on doing Elk Lake on the 27th having lunch out, For the new walkers we leave the Legion normal time 8:30 getting back to the Legion by 2:00pm. on our days out. That walk is about 10 km I think.Tks

Men's Walking Group

Here is my input from todays walk starting at Manley Park, through to Aros and Telegraph Roads, across the end of the field at Hatch Point Road and back.  Great company and, as usual, we lucked out on the weather. - DeNNis.

The red trace is our route starting at Manley Pk Entrance, down to the Beach and looping around Aros and Telegraph roads.

Same trace (blue) as above map. The Chevron Tank Farm is on the right.

Quite a bit of water in the creek after the heavy rains.

Down the "Up Staircase" to the beach - then we had to climb up again!!!

Fuel barge unloading dock on the right.

Looking across to Salt Spring Island.

Natures art - empty "Golden" crab shell.

Some of the "Old Boys" take a rest at the half-way point.

Looking down on the Chevron Tank Farm.

Men's Walking Group

Ten walkers showed up today for a nice jaunt in the crisp, cool (about -1 or -2 degrees) air.  My GPS battery shut down enroute - however when it recovered enough for a reading it showed 6.76 Km - and we probably walked another couple of  kilometers after that point.  Thanks John and John for driving.  Stopped and warmed up with coffee afterwards at the little coffee shop/bakery at Shawnigan Village. 

We parked in the vehicle parking area along Mill Bay Rd and walked down past the Ferry Terminal to where the new Malahat Cultural Center is being constructed.  You can see from the picture of our previous visit that there has been quite a bit of progress since.  The solid wood beams make a good impression.

The dotted blue line shows our route from the parking area down Mill Bay Rd, past the Ferry Terminal, around through Malahat Reserve where the Cultural Center is located and back up Mill Bay Rd.

This is a photo from our last visit - Dec. 2nd - 2013.

A beautiful brisk day for a walk along the water.

Notice the peeled logs used for uprights and the solid wood beams. The "mobiles" (a little hard to make out in this photo)  are at the far end of the structure and will probably be unrecognizable when the center is complete. 

A different view.  The "mobiles" are under the covering.

This is the plaque on the water fountain/trough in the photo below.

This water fountain/trough can be seen on Mill Bay Rd a little before you arrive at the Ferry Terminal.

A panoramic view from Mill Bay Road.

  

YSAGS at the Shawnigan Shiver

To all a HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Here are some pictures from the First Annual Shawnigan Shiver held on January 1, 2014. Over 100 brave souls went into the 3.5C degrees water and some stayed in for 5 minutes.
YSAGS did their part to make this a great event. Anybody recognize the clowns? You might even spot an occasional YSAGS member in the crowd.

Ed

2013 in Review

A look back at 2013 with some of my photos from various activities.  Remember when?

Jan.7 - Womens and Mens Walking Groups meet head-on on the E&N Railway tracks.

Jan 28 - Lunch at the Fan Tan Alley Cafe. Mens Walking Grooup.

Feb 18 - Shot (with camera) during walk from Legion to Shawnigan School.

Feb 22 - Woodcarving Group in action.

Mar 4 - Mens-Womens Walking Groups snowshoeing at Mt. Washington.

Apr 7 - YSAG display at Shawigan Gathering.

Apr 7 - YSAG Line Dancers at Shawnigan Gathering.

May 20 - Holidaying in May via my old hometown of Falkland.  Here is some action from Falkand 95th Stampede.

Jun 2 - Part of the YSAG contingent taking part in the Walk for Cowichan Caregivers.

July 1 - Shawniogan Canada Day Parade - YSAG Float and Zumba Group.

July 1 - Kids building birdhouses and tool boxes compliments of YSAG.

Aug 5 - Mens Walking inspecting the Shawnigan Weir.

Sept 2 - Somewhere between Burnt Bridge and Kinsol Trestle.

Sept 23 - Mens Biking on Galloping GooseTrail inVictoria. 

Oct 21 - Found during walk on Richards Trail.

Nov 4 - Rat Lake Walk.

Dec 2 - Cultural Center being assembled at Malahat Reserve.

Dec 17 - Zumba Group.

Men's walking group

We had a great walk up Cobble hill Mountain today, great views and hey we are proud of you Mike now you know what the top looks like. ha ha. Thanks for the pictures Dennis, they're good. Well I'd like to wish you all a great holiday and we will see you on the 6th of Jan to start another year of great hike's. If you need to walk off some of that turkey before then you may find someone else at the Legion on Monday mornings.

Men's Walking Group

Some jolly soul decorated this tree just behind the water tower.
A nice touch to start the climb.

A freighter anchored. Probably waiting for orders to proceed to Vancouver.

If you squint you can probably see the freighter near the left side of this photo.

The camera looking down on those looking up.

Looking down the west side of Cobble Hill Mtn over the valley below.

Down the slippery slopes.  The trail down was very steep in places.

OOPS! - The map ended up on the bottom.

Good jaunt up Cobble Hill Mtn with good company and finishing with a good meal.  Here is the track of our climb and stroll through Cobble Hill along with a few photos.

Starting at the Dog Park we headed up past the Cobble Hill (CH) Water Tower. Met lots of people and their dogs.  Stopped at the East side lookout then onto the West Side (WS)  and down a different trail. As you can see we finished up with a tour of the area before ending up at the Cobblestone Pub.  Notice by the Elevation points we climbed about 200 meters.
 

Men's Walking Group

It looks as if our Men's Walking group had a great day walking around Cobble Hill and gathering at the Cenotaph before going to the Cobblestone Pub for a well deserved Christmas lunch.

Men's walking group

Hi All We had a good walk today, Dennis & Jim say we did 8 kms. All in the Kinsol trestol area. We then had coffee at the Subway in Shawnigan. It's getting to be that jolly guys time of year so next week we will get in the mood and walk around Cobble Hill area and wind up the year having lunch at the Cobblestone. We plan on picking up our walking in the new year on a regular basis Monday mornings meeting at the Legion 8:30 on the 6th of Jan 2014. If you can't make it next Monday 16th, have a great Holiday Merry Xmas.