With the recent heavy rains and warmer temperatures we were hoping for a training hike without icy trails but it wasn’t the case. Oh well, we are Street2Peaker’s so we take what we are given and get on with it. These 14 youth did a incredible job of backpacking two loops of Burnaby Lake (21 km’s today) with trail conditions that can be tough to walk on.       [gallery_bank type=”images” format=”masonry” title=”false” desc=”false” responsive=”true” display=”all” sort_by=”pic_name” special_effect=”grayscale” animation_effect=”bounce” album_title=”true”...

Thank you to the Street2Peak students for showing up today with the desire to continue their Chile training. With cold-ish temperatures and many sections of ice we had a part road, part trail hike in Pacific Spirit Park and through the University of British Columbia campus. As we have just passed the 2 month mark to our departure for our Torres del Paine National Park backpack we now are focusing on final conditioning and gear testing. Thanks to Brandon and Amber for helping out the Streetfront “boys” with today’s hike. [gallery_bank type=”images” format=”masonry” title=”true” desc=”false” responsive=”true” display=”all” sort_by=”pic_name” animation_effect=”bounce” album_title=”true”...

For the goal of being the best prepared we can for Torres del Paine we will continue to train with full packs the weeks leading up to our March 11th departure. Our goal is to test out our gear, continue to develop a strong and supportive team and to become one with our fully laden packs for at least 5 hours each time out!  

We had most of our students run to the 2016-17 VSB Alternative Schools annual Burgeron Cup at REV’s Bowling today partly in preparation for next weekends Seattle Marathon and partly because we can. We didn’t finish victorious in the tournament but we won in class spirit and fantastic runners legs.

Congratulations to Streetfront student Emily Lloyd on representing herself, her classmates, her family, and Streetfront well while telling her story on Breakfast Television. Way to promote Streetfront and the Street2Peak Project! Watch for yourself...