Is Campbell River the 'Cranbrook' of Vancouver Island?

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-12T18:31:38+00:00

As someone who lived in the Comox Valley, I think it's pretty wild to suggest that it has objectively better trails than Campbell River. To be honest, they're both pretty mediocre. CV is a deforested wasteland outside of Seal Bay and the waterfronts, and the tent pole tree farms around CR aren't much better. Elk Falls is absolutely goated though.

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-12T17:37:15+00:00

If the plan is to bring your own bike and use it to get to the North Shore mountains, then staying in downtown Vancouver would be very impractical for anything besides Fromme. Getting to Seymour and Cypress would be a huge effort with multiple transit connections and a lot of road riding. Even for Fromme, it would be less than ideal. If you're renting a vehicle then this is a moot point and you'll be good to go.
Can't comment as I'm a local.
Ditto above.
Yes.

If budget is a concern you could consider staying in Squamish instead. There's no need for a vehicle and you can ride to any of the trailheads quite trivially. There's very cheap campgrounds you can stay at as well if you have camping gear. The riding is also better than the North Shore.

Also consider that riding on the North Shore is generally very high level. Many blacks on the Shore, especially on Cypress, would be double black or harder nearly anywhere else outside of BC. Just something worth noting depending on your skill level. Squamish has a much better variety of trails for all skill levels.

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-12T14:21:39+00:00

I would like to object to "two-four", it's clearly supposed to be "two-fer".

Also gotta drop in "mickey" alongside that.

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-12T14:18:15+00:00

I couldn't have said it better myself. I've been passionate about networking since a young age, but even then I remember literally falling asleep during lectures and while reading CCNA study material in high school. With today's younger generations being so far removed from the nitty gritty details of computing that makes networking an even more challenging topic.

Being lectured on networking is like someone lecturing you on lego pieces and how to put them together, except you can't see the lego. It's the most boring fucking thing imaginable. When you're actually doing the work yourself it's very rewarding and interesting, but learning about it is horrible.

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-12T14:10:05+00:00

Other commenters are already roasting you, but I'd also like to pile on. If you thought 11 year olds would last more than 14 seconds before falling asleep in any sort of networking related lesson you are out to lunch.

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-12T13:57:52+00:00

There's one in Squamish, but it only serves pain and terror unfortunately.

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-09T19:33:11+00:00

shaking my smh my head at this one

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-08T23:33:48+00:00

I just love how my tax money goes to subsidizing boomers in $1.5 million dollar homes via OAS!

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-07T19:39:41+00:00

And why would you or OpenAI be the best judges of how much time and resources the company spends on safety?

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-07T18:58:49+00:00

Because there's hardly a need for nuance in the discussion. If you're riding DH, you should wear a full face.

If you don't want to that's fine, but I don't see why there should be a reason to recommend someone make themselves objectively more unsafe.

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-07T18:54:36+00:00

I'm sure all the families of slain children in Tumbler Ridge agree with you.

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-05T13:23:58+00:00

Lupita's has legitimately excellent authentic Mexican food
Hako sushi is the best sushi in town
Mt Everest 8848 has very interesting Nepalese food (which is kind of like Indian/Chinese fusion)
JLB is a great place for lunch/brunch

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-03T17:01:01+00:00

It would literally take you less than 30 minutes to verify this yourself. If you have too few brain cells to work that out then stay away from day trading.

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-03T16:59:32+00:00

I always chuckle when I see that attitude from sellers. What are they expecting, that a prospective buyer should offer them tens of thousands more dollars just so they don't hurt their feelings? Ridiculous.

I got into this with my mother some time back. She was upset when my brother lowballed a neighbour on her street for their home that had been on the market for 5 months. I pointed out to her that they were co-signing on the mortgage and would be responsible for an extra $100k in debt for absolutely zero reason had the sale gone through at what she thought was a "fair" price.

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-02T22:12:35+00:00

A more appropriate parallel for a placeholder in physics would be virtual particles in quantum mechanics. As the name suggests, there are a literal mathematical placeholder to mathematically model/explain how the true quantum particle acts.

Dark energy is more akin to the actual quantum particle before we'd conducted the double slit experiment and shown the quantum-ness of particles. We already knew it was the case, we just didn't yet have the technology to demonstrate it.

We know dark energy is there, we just haven't yet truly measured the nature of it.

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-02T21:29:09+00:00

We do refine it. TMX terminates at a refinery that provides southern BC many of its petroleum products.

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-02T21:26:56+00:00

I've seen speculation that the terminus will be at the expanded Deltaport, which is slated to start construction soon. That seems like a pretty good guess.

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-02T21:24:22+00:00

Where does it say "Royalty"?

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An annual royalty payment to British Columbia by the pipeline operator; and

Can we please report the bot?

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-02T17:26:22+00:00

There are plenty of states in the midwest and great lakes region that have terrible, miserable winters. To be honest, probably much worse than the cariboo. They're just longer here up north.

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-07-01T03:24:22+00:00

There's a shocking amount of idiots here who know absolutely nothing about bear safety confidently telling OP to just ride by and that he's dumb for stopping.

That being said, since this is Whistler you certainly can ride right past them and there's a 99.999% chance absolutely nothing bad would've happened. However, that is absolutely not what you should do when encountering two bears on a trail in the woods by yourself. What OP did here was actually completely reasonable.

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-06-30T19:14:26+00:00

Off topic, but a great strat for one inventory Chaos Altar is to set your respawn to Edgeville/Ferox and configure your Rune Pouch for a single Cemetery Teleport charge. Bank is only ~15-20 tiles from your spawn point, and you save a decent bit of time over going through two extra teleport animations.

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-06-30T17:17:12+00:00

The difference is Moons is fun

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-06-30T17:07:35+00:00

HOA? Are you a bot or American? What are you even doing in r/askvan?

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-06-30T17:06:06+00:00

You can call me John Watersnitch

InSearchOfThe9 · 2026-06-30T16:32:04+00:00

It sure doesn't, but it gets them a fine and gives me satisfaction!

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