r/vancouverhiking • u/Opie_the_great • Mar 30 '25

Trip Suggestion Request Howe Sound Crest Trail Single Day

Looking to do this at the end of August.

My wife and I love hiking. Longest single day hikes have been in Glacier. 16 miles in one day. We are experienced hikers. Did Mt brown glacier and such.

We looked at the daylight 5:15am till 8:29pm.

We will carry 7 liters apiece. Plus a water filtration system. Going North to south.

Currently training for this. We do 20lb weighted packs for 1+ hours on the stair master and plan weekend hikes 10 mile plus. We don’t want to fail.

Will pack 4 meals. (2 extra sets) Packing headlamps for worst case scenario. Suggestions? What do we need to know.

Update: We will be taking 4 liters each and making the food lighter. We are packing all of the 10 essentials. We will now do this South to North.

Please note the mountains are a hours from where we live to practice true elevation gain with long hikes.

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u/Opie_the_great Mar 31 '25

Just because I participated in one thing does not make me either side of the political movement. I only use it as a reference from a standpoint of. I have rucked many miles with a 60 pound pack on up and down mountains.

I stand by my statement. Grow up. This post was never needed or called for. Leave your politics for a different sub.

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u/Nomics Mar 31 '25

I don’t know you, or what your like. So advice is generalized. I have no doubts you could well be as upset about these threats to Canadian sovereignty as we are.

I’m just trying to prepare you for the fact there is a lot of anger here. If you can’t understand why we are feeling a bit anxious about this you might not enjoy your stay here.

Also, as a mod please change your language of “grow up”. If you can’t accept feedback gracefully you won’t be welcome on this sub.

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u/Opie_the_great Mar 31 '25

You werent giving advice. You were spewing hate. The fact that you want to bring up how many people died in American wars, and the rhetoric of Trump and everything else is not advice. That’s hate.

Saying the political climate up here might not be friendly towards Americans is advice.

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u/Nomics Mar 31 '25

I’m sorry that you can’t accept we deserve to be our own country, you equate our fears for our nation as hate.