Victoria Club Tread Links

Parks

• Our parks page
• Olympic National Park
• Protect Our Parks, an alliance of outdoor clubs active within the Capital Regional District on Southern Vancouver Island with the common goal of preserving the environmental, cultural, historical and recreational value of CRD parks in perpetuity.

Other Clubs

• Alpine Club of Canada - Vancouver Island Section
• Cowichan Outdoor Group
• Federation of Mountain Clubs of BC
• Kamloops Outdoor Club
• Outdoor Club of Victoria
• Kludahk Club (Sooke)
• Sierra Club of British Columbia
• VictOrienteers (Victoria Orienteering Club)
• University of Victoria Outdoors Club

Clubs Outside BC

• Grant MacEwan Mountain Club, Edmonton, Alberta.
• Mountaineers' - Kitsap Branch, Kitsap County, Washington State.

Guides

• Island Alpine Guides

Habitat Restoration Organizations

• Friends of Ecological Reserves
  
• Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team (GEORT)
• Saanich's Garry Oak Restoration Project (GORP)
  

Non Club Events

• Information on the annual walk from Gold River to Tahsis.

Outdoor Education

• Island Alpine Guides

Safety

• Wildnerness Medical Society

Trail Information

• Golden area trail information
• Illustrated Hiking Trails of the Canadian Rockies
• Vancouver Island Avalanche Bulletin
• Vancouver Island Trails Information Society
• Washington State Trails Association Storm Damage Map and Database
  

Accommodation and Transportation Links

The following links are provided to areas we hike that have accommodation services which may be of use to our members. This is not a general purpose site for advertising your bed & breakfast!

• The Rainforest Hostel (Forks).
• Thor Town International Hostel (Port Angeles) (also offers trailhead transportation).
• Windsox Shuttle run a backpacker shuttle service for Olympic National Park. Phone 360-375-2002.

Other Links

• Adventure Smart (promotes safe outdoor activities in British Columbia).
• The Backpacker.
• Backpacker magazine.
• For Hiking site (principally US hiking links)
• GORP: Great Outdoors Recreation Pages.
• Information about Victoria and the local area.
• Juan de Fuca Regional Park Watch Society
  
• Knots.
• More knots information.
• Nature guides (animals, birds, flowers, trees and more).
• Reptiles of BC (Thompson Rivers University site)
  
• Reviews of outdoor gear.
• Stores offering discounts to club members.
• Tips on making your own outdoor clothing including a list of suppliers of outdoor fabrics. Courtesy of Specialty Outdoors.
• Yahoo! - BC Outdoors.

Links to sites that have helped us

The following links are included as a means of thanking those people and organizations who created utilities that we use on our site or who have provided service to our club.

• Dynamic Drive - provided the javascript we use to build the menus in our site. In particular our thanks to Constantin Kuznetsov Jr. who wrote this script.
• Play Free Games - provided the java component used to display the elevation profiles in some of our trail descriptions.
• Phoenity - provided some of the graphics we use on our site.
• WeDoHosting - our service provider who so generously donates the space for this site!

These links were added well after our site was established, our sincere apologies to any person or organization who we have not included on this page.