July 24 On Wednesday evening it was another big turnout (yay!) as Edie, Liane, Brigitte, Kevin, Hazra, Rod, Brenda, Glenn, René, Lorraine, and Larry walked from the mall to the Stoney Creek trail, which was shaded and a bit cooler away from the rather warm evening. We all walked to North Road at various speeds, but all finished within 45 minutes. Some of us went in the mall and enjoyed the air conditioning for a …
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June 2025
June 29 On Saturday morning Edie, Kevin, Liane, Len and Miriam with Jax, Rod, Hazra, and Larry met at the Centennial Park parking lot on Burnaby Mountain and walked on the trail that leads to University Boulevard and on to SFU, and into the campus along the main mall, the academic quadrangle, viewed the shops and condos along HIgh Road, the condos on University Crescent, where the boulevards were nicely treed, which was nice to …
May 2025
May 30 On Wednesday evening Liane, Larry, Edie, Kevin, Sandy, Hazra, Rod, and Brigitte walked from the mall along Cameron, behind the Cameron Rec Centre to check on its progress – it is still a big pit but plenty of equipment and materials are there – then walked on the Stoney Creek trail to the trail that goes behind Stoney Creek elementary school, up to cross the Gaglardi overpass, along the trail that runs parallel …
April 2025
April 30 On Monday evening Kevin, Brenda, Glenn, Debra Colvin and her dog, and Larry walked from the mall down Bartlett Court, the Lougheed underpass to Keswick Park, did a lap around the track, then went along Cardston and Halston, Government, the Eastlake trail, up through Eastlake Park, Cameron, and back to the mall. Not a bad evening, cloudy but otherwise pleasant. Our distance was about 5.5 km and time was just under 1 hour. …
March 2025
March 30 On Saturday morning Kevin, Liane, Larry, Len and Miriam with Jax, and Edie met at the Port Moody Rec Centre and walked on the Rocky Point park trail to Old Orchard Park and continued to Alderside. Edie, Kevin, Larry, Len and Jax turned back about halfway along Alderside and walked to Rocky Point park and the ice cream shop, and were soon joined by Liane and Miriam, who had walked on Alderside to …
February 2025
Feb 28 On Wednesday evening Kevin, Edie, Rod, Hazra, Liane, René, Glenn, Brenda, and Larry walked along Cameron and Beaverbrook. Liane and Brenda walked on Eastlake to Underhill and returned, their distance about 6 km and time about 1h05; René, Rod, Hazra, Kevin, Glenn, Edie, and Larry walked past the Stoney Creek school and across the Gaglardi overpass, where Edie, Larry, and Hazra turned back. their distance about 4 km and time just under 1 …
January 2025
January 30 On Wednesday evening Glenn, Brenda, Hazra, Sandy, Kevin, René, Liane, Edie, Flora and Larry walked from the mall along Cameron, through Eastlake Park, and along Eastlake. Kevin and Hazra walked to Production Way, and Larry and Edie walked to just past the Gaglardi underpass, and all returned the same way, their distance about 5 km (a bit less for Edie and Larry) and time about 1h10. Brenda, Liane, Sandy, Flora, René and Glenn …
December 2024
December 31 On Saturday morning, despite the rain, Flora did her 14th Park Run 5 km at Mundy Park in a time of 43:06 in slippery and wet conditions. Trees were no protection from the deluge of rain this time! Kudos to Flora for persevering in the miserable weather! On Saturday afternoon Flora, Larry, and Edie did a 3 km walk along Greystone and the golf course, taking advantage of the surprise sunny weather. On …
November 2024
November 29 On Wednesday evening the Cruisers walked a couple of laps around Lafarge Lake and viewed the Christmas light display which was superb as usual! Larry, Edie, Liane, Brenda, Glenn, Hazra, Rod, Kevin, Eoin and Laura enjoyed the pleasant weather – no rain and not too cold – and it wasn’t overly crowded either. We walked about 3 km in a time of about 1h15. Flora reported that she also was there but unfortunately …
October 2024
Oct 30 On Monday evening Glenn, Brenda, Liane, Edie, Sandy, Flora, and Larry walked along Bartlett, Cameron, Beaverbrook to Noel at which point Flora, Edie and Larry turned back, their distance about 3 km and time 30 minutes, while the rest of the group continued along Beaverbrook, Eastlake to Underhill, then returned, their distance just over 5 km and time just under 1 hour. As we started out we were greeted by a deluge of …