Welcome to the North Shore Hikers
Vancouver's most active hiking club
The North Shore Hikers, founded in 1958, is the largest and most active hiking club in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. With over 500 members, we come from all walks of life to share a love for the outdoors.
We provide outdoor activities that are enjoyable, satisfying, scenic and safe. Through the club members can enjoy the wilderness in all seasons, improve fitness and develop outdoor skills.
Every weekend the club has activities at various skill levels, with more in summer than winter. Activities include hiking, snowshoeing, cycling, back country skiing and backpacking. Trips are rarely cancelled, except due to heavy rain or poor trail condition. In addition to local mountains, we visit Whistler, Chilliwack Valley, Manning Park and Mt. Baker. Wednesday hikes run year round and are planned on a week-to-week basis. There are also multi-day trips as far afield as the Rockies. Occasionally, members travel overseas together for adventures.
In the 2010 - 2011 membership year the club organized 236 trips with 1884 participants.
Our adult-oriented club has an excellent safety record due to the experience of members and ensuring participants are properly equipped. The club relies on volunteers but has used guides for avalanche training. Also, workshops are held on snowshoeing, snow camping and basic ice axe use.
After a long hike participants often arrange to have dinner together. Annually, there are two slide shows and a General Meeting in the fall.
The Raven, a quarterly Newsletter, is emailed to all members (paper copy available to those without email). It contains the schedule of upcoming hikes and activities, updates on club business, interesting stories, an Executive contact list and general club information (some of which appears on this site). To give the public and prospective members a view of our activities, we post the current Schedule on this website, but without coordinator and meeting place details.
A coordinator is in charge of each activity. New members should contact the coordinator to ensure the activity is suitable. As a rough guide, to do one of our easy hikes you should be able to hike on a good trail with moderate elevation gain for about 5 hours at a reasonable pace.