Backpacking - BC Car-Free Outdoor Portal - Take a Walk on the Wild Side

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Labrador Tea

Forgot the tea bags and dying for a cuppa? Look around the camp. Chances are your drippy socks are draped over a Labrador tea bush. Steep the leaves, but not the socks, in boiled water for a tea that was enjoyed by more North American Indians than any other kind. Don't actually boil the leaves however as boiling releases a chemical called ledol which has a number of unpleasant side effects. Pregnant women should avoid Labrador tea altogether. As a mild narcotic, Labrador tea was also an essential ingredient in kinnikinnik, a tobacco-less smoking mixture used by native groups throughout much of North America.

Illustration by Manami Kimura

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Backpacking

These treks take over where the day hikes leave off. The Backpacking section of BC Car-Free details 9 major multi-day excursions with a number of variations. Included are three important coastal hikes along Vancouver Island's Pacific Rim and, for the first time in print anywhere, the entire Sunshine Coast Trail: all 175 km of it!

1	Backpacking Checklist	Brian Grover	3807
2	Garibaldi Park: Access	Brian Grover	2434
3	Garibaldi Park: Garibaldi Lake	Brian Grover	3987
4	Garibaldi Park: Black Tusk	Brian Grover	2627
5	Garibaldi Park: Panorama Ridge	Brian Grover	2269
6	Garibaldi Park: Singing Pass Loop	Brian Grover	3491
7	Henrietta Lake	Brian Grover	3999
8	Sunshine Coast Trail	Brian Grover	3509
9	Sunshine Coast Trail Stage 1: Sarah Point to Malaspina Road	Brian Grover	2952
10	Sunshine Coast Trail Stage 2: Malaspina Road to Powell Lake	Brian Grover	2667
11	Sunshine Coast Trail Stage 3: Powell Lake to Fiddlehead Farm	Brian Grover	2650
12	Sunshine Coast Trail-Stage 4: Fiddlehead Farm to Lois River	Brian Grover	2344
13	Sunshine Coast Trail-Stage 5: Lois Dam to Saltery Bay	Brian Grover	2382
14	Stein River Valley	Brian Grover	2302
15	Stein River Valley-Stein Lower Canyon to Mid-Valley	Brian Grover	2886
16	Nicomen Lake	Brian Grover	3067
17	Juan De Fuca Marine Trail	Brian Grover	4741
18	The West Coast Trail- Introduction	Brian Grover	4811
19	The West Coast Trail- Day One	Brian Grover	2398
20	The West Coast Trail-Day Two	Brian Grover	2393
21	The West Coast Trail-Day Three	Brian Grover	2336
22	The West Coast Trail-Day Four	Brian Grover	2115
23	The West Coast Trail-Day Five	Brian Grover	2492
24	The West Coast Trail- Day Six	Brian Grover	2004
25	The Mid-Coast Trail	Brian Grover	7658
26	Stein Valley Mini-Traverse	Brian Grover	2977

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