Cliffs Jumping and Swimming on the BC Coast

A fun TV commercial my company filmed here on the BC Coast. There is lots of cliff jumping and swimming shots. It was filmed along the cliffs of Howe Sound between Vancouver and Squamish.

4000 Feet Up On The Mount Seymour Bluffs

Some of my ramblings about the epic scenery visible from the Mount Seymour bluffs.

Influencers: How Trends and Creativity Becomes Contagious

I love this short documentary on what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity become contagious today in music, fashion and entertainment. Their website is awesome, check it out.

Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.

My favourite quote from last week’s talk on Educating the Heart and Mind by Sir Ken Robinson.

Guy travels the world and shoots one second of footage in each location

It must have took a lot of planning and hard work to make this video. Incredible way to do a video travelogue.

Camping at Jones Lake

For the long weekend, a group of us went up to Jones Lake near the Fraser Valley for some camping by the water. We had a sweet spot on the east side of Jones Lake with a nice beach for swimming, excellent 4×4 trails and even a fire-powered hot tub! I shot this video in the afternoon after we got up there.

Eagles Bluffs in Cypress Provincial Park in West Vancouver

If you want a killer view, then the Eagles Bluffs are the spot. It’s a 4 hour return hike from the Cypress Mountain day lodge. There are 10 beautiful lakes on the trail and as you can see in the video, the views of Vancouver and the Georgia Straight from the Eagle Bluffs are exceptional.

You can also hike in from Horseshoe Bay via Whyte Lake (a great spot to swim afterwards) and it takes about the same amount of time.

Upside down reflection on Hollyburn Lake

I think this upside down reflection looks pretty cool. I took it yesterday hiking on Cypress Mountain.

The Best Hike and View in Vancouver

I’ve previously written about the best hikes in Vancouver, but I wanted to make another post about my favourite hike in Vancouver, which is Dog Mountain. I like this hike because it’s near the city and it offers the best hike effort-to-view ratio in the North Shore Mountains. From downtown Vancouver, you can be at the trailhead at the north end of the Mount Seymour Provincial Park parking lot in 30 minutes. From there, it is about a 45 minute hike to the Dog Mountain bluffs, depending on the snow and trail conditions.

Dog Mountain is an easy hike to do year round and it winds through beautiful old-growth forests, past a spectacular lake and 5 or 6 little streams coming down from the Mount Seymour alpine. It’s even a great hike to do in the dark, with flashlights, if you want a spot to watch meteor showers in the summer. I’ve hiked most of the North Shore Mountains and I find Dog Mountain to have the best and most accessible view of the Vancouver area.

Here are some videos and photos I took my last time hiking Dog Mountain:

Cathedral Mountain and Vancouver’s North Shore Mountains

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The History of Human Thinking (in 6 minutes, 4 seconds)

This video tells it like it is.