Well-behaved children,dogs and other animals are welcome to join our hikes. Instruction in the subtleties of safe barefoot hiking will be given at the start of each trip. Be assured that the trails that we choose for our excursions will normally those that are proven to be 'barefoot-safe'. We will always strive to select trails that are especially suited to barefoot hiking for our excursions. We would normally plan to have a picnic either at the end or at the turnaround point on each hike.
Suggestions regarding barefoot-friendly hiking trails in the Vancouver area are most welcome.
Barefoot Links For more information about barefoot hiking in North America, have a look at the Dirty Sole Society homepage,and the Barefoot hikers homepage . If I receive a request for a hike by Tuesday in any given week, I will immediately send out a notice to everybody on the VBH mailing list, If I receive any positive replies by Thursday evening, I will let everybody know that the hike is on for that weekend. I will send out similar notices for the 'official' hikes on the preceding Tuesday and the procedure is the same from then on. Any suggestions for hiking trails are also welcome. Generally we prefer 'barefoot friendly' trails, i.e. ones that are easy on the foot, but we also try to do one or two more challenging hikes every year.