Training Log Archive: dbakker

Spent much of the day working on Course Maps for the Cross Country Skiing BC Champs at Larch Hills in early March. Most of the way through it now - have all my lines done in OpenO Mapper, just finished getting all my course stats and elevation profiles produced (mixture of QGIS and Excel with some manual edits to fix the chunk that isn't covered by the DEM (and a couple of glitches in the DEM)). Now just need to combine the two data sets together tomorrow and make it look pretty.

Nice run on the upper part of the Mission Creek Greenway. Really busy at first with a lot of dogs, but apparently they do not go more than 1.5km up the trail. Although maybe its because that is where the climb starts that they turn around. Lots of practice with up and down steep slippery (icy) stairs on that part - good fun.

Really glad I wore the spiked Arctic Talons - trail was a frozen sheet of ice for the most part.

Foot held up well throughout the run.


Cool hill along the run with interesting layering of rock. Has a fancy name, just can't remember it right now. According to the sign it is unique in the world, except one similar formation in New Zeeland.


When biologists get bored...


Random pond at the side of the trail with a nice reflection and some melting ice that looked kinda cool

Cut about five minutes from the run time when I was playing around with my phone camera.

C • Funky hill 2