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

While modern adventurers smear their skin with toxic chemicals to keep pesky bugs at bay, natives of the Pacific Northwest took a less carcinogous approach. The fresh-squeezed juice of common Vanilla Leaf was applied to fend off mosquitos and black flies. Dried leaves, smelling faintly of vanilla, were hung in bunches about the longhouse for the same purpose. A potion of boiled Vanilla Leaf was used to wash bedding to eliminate bed bugs and mites and as a hair treatment to fend off lice and fleas. Look for Vanilla Leaf at trailside in heavy forest wherever moisture accumulates.

Illustration by Manami Kimura

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	1966
2	Garibaldi Park: Access	Brian Grover	1333
3	Garibaldi Park: Garibaldi Lake	Brian Grover	1889
4	Garibaldi Park: Black Tusk	Brian Grover	1214
5	Garibaldi Park: Panorama Ridge	Brian Grover	1233
6	Garibaldi Park: Singing Pass Loop	Brian Grover	1663
7	Henrietta Lake	Brian Grover	1655
8	Sunshine Coast Trail	Brian Grover	1702
9	Sunshine Coast Trail Stage 1: Sarah Point to Malaspina Road	Brian Grover	1285
10	Sunshine Coast Trail Stage 2: Malaspina Road to Powell Lake	Brian Grover	1124
11	Sunshine Coast Trail Stage 3: Powell Lake to Fiddlehead Farm	Brian Grover	1138
12	Sunshine Coast Trail-Stage 4: Fiddlehead Farm to Lois River	Brian Grover	978
13	Sunshine Coast Trail-Stage 5: Lois Dam to Saltery Bay	Brian Grover	1074
14	Stein River Valley	Brian Grover	1220
15	Stein River Valley-Stein Lower Canyon to Mid-Valley	Brian Grover	1205
16	Nicomen Lake	Brian Grover	1350
17	Juan De Fuca Marine Trail	Brian Grover	2119
18	The West Coast Trail- Introduction	Brian Grover	2140
19	The West Coast Trail- Day One	Brian Grover	1257
20	The West Coast Trail-Day Two	Brian Grover	1160
21	The West Coast Trail-Day Three	Brian Grover	1195
22	The West Coast Trail-Day Four	Brian Grover	1101
23	The West Coast Trail-Day Five	Brian Grover	1299
24	The West Coast Trail- Day Six	Brian Grover	1165
25	The Mid-Coast Trail	Brian Grover	3792
26	Stein Valley Mini-Traverse	Brian Grover	1135

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