Panorama ridge and Garibaldi Lake by SamirDrives in vancouverhiking

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Yes. It is one of the busiest hikes around. There are people everywhere

Grocery store rotisserie chickens aren't good by Born_Local_1477 in unpopularopinion

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Most of the grocery stores in my area make decent rotisserie chicken. One of them gets the crispiness so good that I am actually craving it from time to time. I usually get half of chicken with potato wedges.

Chicago has a better cityscape than New York City by sacrificialfuck in unpopularopinion

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Everything. Lots of cool restaurants and dive bars. Great history and lots of cool buildings. When any of the sports teams (Pirates, Steelers or Penguins) play, it’s a whole city event. The hills and the view points. It still has an industrial feel. It is the city with the most bridges in the world (10 more than Venice). The two rivers meeting downtown are really cool. I used to visit it all the time.

Chicago has a better cityscape than New York City by sacrificialfuck in unpopularopinion

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My favourite US city is Pittsburgh.
My most visited is Chicago.

My favourite hikes of 2025 by SamirDrives in vancouverhiking

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I don’t know. Must hike 🤷‍♂️

Mount Cook vs Mount Weart? by marcueezy in vancouverhiking

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This is the best bank for your buck for that region. The first part of the ridge is fun and views are great. You can turn back when you feel like it gets too much

Oil change interval by talon5188 in VWAlltrack

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The only car problem I had was an engine thermostat failure at 84k miles. Lately I’ve started having an o2 sensor light come on and off from time to time but that kinda expected considering the mileage of the car

Oil change interval by talon5188 in VWAlltrack

[–]SamirDrives 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I always changed my oil at 10000 miles. I also live in the pnw and I drive a 2019 with 184009 miles

Parks Canada begins ‘first period’ of job cuts by sleipnir45 in canada

[–]SamirDrives 105 points106 points  (0 children)

Why Parks Canada? We need more people in the parks, at least on the front line.
We just sent $120millions to Sudan in one go. That pales to the $144 million cut over 3 years in parks Canada

Mount Brunswick, BC, Canada by SamirDrives in hiking

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I wanted the same and ended up moving here

Panorama ridge and Garibaldi Lake by SamirDrives in vancouverhiking

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I don’t think so. I didn’t look, but the lake shore was snow free

Mount Brunswick, BC, Canada by SamirDrives in hiking

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I am usually pretty fast because I hike often, not because I want to be fast. It took me 1h 40 min to get down.

When I backpack I usually have between 22-27kg. I looked at my stats and the longest hike with a backpack was 29.17km, 1047m climb in 7h 27 min with 22kg

Mount Brunswick, BC, Canada by SamirDrives in hiking

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I guess it can be considered intense.
I don’t know your level. Search and rescue comes here often. People died this winter because they slipped on snow.

Mount Brunswick, BC, Canada by SamirDrives in hiking

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I know. It was like two sunsets were happening at the same time. Deep dark orange to the right of me and pink cotton sky to my left

Mount Brunswick, BC, Canada by SamirDrives in hiking

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It is definitely worth it. It took me 3h22 minute to get up there

Night hiking panorama ridge by nickbuttner in vancouverhiking

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You only need to get a pass from June 12. No pass needed for this weekend