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A Zipcar fishing adventure in five partsPart four: the random discovery!

Recently Zipcar reached out and offered me a credit so that I could try out their service and write about it here on the blog. As somebody who owns a car and hasn't ever considered joining a carshare, I admit I was initially lukewarm to the idea.
34 Million

34 Million

Nope, it's not the Lotto 649 growing and growing, it's those pesky and glorious sockeye salmon making their way up the Mighty Fraser River this year! Up from a concerning 1.

A Zipcar fishing adventure in five partsPart three: the destination!

Recently Zipcar reached out and offered me a credit so that I could try out their service and write about it here on the blog. As somebody who owns a car and hasn't ever considered joining a carshare, I admit I was initially lukewarm to the idea.

A Zipcar fishing adventure in five partsPart two: the trip!

Recently Zipcar reached out and offered me a credit so that I could try out their service and write about it here on the blog. As somebody who owns a car and hasn't ever considered joining a carshare, I admit I was initially lukewarm to the idea.
30 Million Fishes

30 Million Fishes

Bummer news about that 25 million sockeye salmon I TOLD YOU were heading up the Mighty Fraser to spawn this year: the estimate is actually now 30 MILLION . Wait, that's not bummer news.
A Zipcar fishing adventure in five partsPart one: the whip!

A Zipcar fishing adventure in five partsPart one: the whip!

Recently Zipcar reached out and offered me a credit so that I could try out their service and write about it here on the blog. As somebody who owns a car and hasn't ever considered joining a carshare, I admit I was initially lukewarm to the idea.
North Shore BMX

North Shore BMX

Unlike skateboarding, BMX parks are extremely rare, and BMX race tracks are almost impossible to find. So when my friend asked if I wanted to go to the track at Inter-River Park in North Van, I didn't know what to expect.
UNPLUGGED: #11 Minnekhada Regional Park

UNPLUGGED: #11 Minnekhada Regional Park

PLACE: Minnekhada Regional Park (Click for Map) LOCATION: Coquitlam, B.C.
The mysterious Sockeye Salmon's glorious comeback

The mysterious Sockeye Salmon's glorious comeback

Last year, around the time that around 10 million sockeye salmon apparently went missing from the Fraser River, David Christian and I did an interview with David Suzuki for SBC Skateboard magazine (here's the POST I made about the interview).
UNPLUGGED SPECIAL: Perseid Meteor Shower

UNPLUGGED SPECIAL: Perseid Meteor Shower

PLACE: Northern Hemisphere LOCATION: Anyplace away from the lights This is just a friendly reminder that the Perseid Meteor Shower hit it's peak last night around Midnight but will continue to dazzle with 60-80 meteors an hour tonight then taper off