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== Introduction ==
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Garibaldi Lake is located in the large (and aptly named) Garibaldi Lake park, located about half an hour from Squamish.  Both trailheads are easily accesible by car and well marked with ample parking year-round.  The Barrier trail hike to the lake makes a good day hike (18km round trip), several good day hikes are available from the lake and meadow sites.  There's lots to do; a five or six day trip would be best to see most of the trails around the lake.


== Access & Fees ==
I'm from Langley, and unlike most of you, don't attend UBC.  Langara represent!
Access is well-marked and quite direct from Highway 99.  To access the Barrier trailhead, turn right off the highway past Rubble Creek.  The park service has a sign to direct you.  Follow the road to the parking lot.  For access to Cheakamus Lake, take a right from Highway 99 a few kilometers before Whistler.  There's a logging road through an observation forest for a few kilometers before the parking lot.  A loop is possible with two vehicles; allow for a minimum of two days.


Fees are paid at the parking lot, $5 a night per person and include parking.
==Categorization==
I'm going to make an attempt to categorize things on the Wiki.  It seems that nobody's done this from the start, so it could be an interesting undertaking...anyone else is welcome to help.  If you didn't know about the categorization features of Mediawiki, just create a link to Category:CategoryName anywhere in the article, and the article will be added to that category.  A link will be added at the bottom of the article, and the category page will contain that article.  New categories can be created simply by linking a page to them, and each category can have information added about it and such on the category page in the normal fashion.  Creating a link to more than one category will add the article to all the categories linked.  This should make it easier to keep track of the various indexes of articles.


== Sites ==
Here's a start for a structure, comment on my [[User_talk:Ktims|talk page]]:
The Garibaldi/Black Tusk trail ring has three camping areas.
* [[:Category:Trip Ideas]] (these are self-explanitory)
=== Garibaldi Lake ===
** [[:Category:Hiking Trips]]
This is the largest and most well-equipped site on the hike.  There are three large cooking shelters with picnic tables, counters and a bag line.  These are well maintained, but often busy.  Several pit toilets are provided, and a staffed ranger station is a few hundred metres from the camping area.  The site is quite large, and finding space is usually not a problem.  This site is on the lake, with spectacular views of the Sphinx Glacier across the lake and the Black Tusk. [[Burton Hut]] is visible across the lake, and the Glaciology huts can be seen with binoculars. This
** [[:Category:Skiing Trips]]
** [[:Category:Backpacking Trips]]
** [[:Category:Car Free Trips]]
** [[:Category:Paddling Trips]]
** [[:Category:Climbing Trips]]
** [[:Category:Mountaineering Trips]]
** [[:Category:Camping Trips]] (for sites with 'normal', drive-to-site camping)
* [[:Category:Areas]] (an index of geographic areas an article may be related to, this should be general and not only for trip ideas [eg the land use issues pages])
** [[:Category:North Shore]]
** [[:Category:Tri-Cities]]
** [[:Category:Squamish-Whistler]]
** [[:Category:Lillooet-Kamloops]]
** [[:Category:Fraser Valley]]
** [[:Category:Coquihalla]]
** [[:Category:Washington]]
** [[:Category:Vancouver Island]]
** [[:Category:Nearby Islands]]
* [[:Category:Huts]]
** [[:Category:Construction]]
* [[:Category:Club]] (for club events, administravia, etc.)
** [[:Category:Events]]
** [[:Category:Administrative]]
** [[:Category:Trips]]
** [[:Category:Journal]] (for all the VOCJournal TOCs)
** [[:Category:Rentals]] (for gear rental/inventory pages)
* [[:Category:Tips]] (for recipies, gear tips, whatever)
** [[:Category:Recipes]]
* [[:Category:Environment]] (land use issues, ?)
* [[:Category:Wiki]] (wiki help pages, tips, ...)
* [[:Category:Illegal]]
 
==Templates==
I've also added a couple of warning templates to help improve consistency.  Also, a GFDL license template.  They're at [[Template:Warning]], [[Template:Illegal]] and [[Template:GFDL]], and were basically taken verbatim from Wikipedia (allowed under GFDL).  They look like this (view the source to see how to use them if you're not a Mediawiki veteran):
 
{{Warning}}
{{Illegal}}
{{GFDL}}
 
==Silly Ideas==
Before I go to bed, one more silly thing...
 
Maybe it would be a good idea to have a 'glossary' of hiking/climbing/skiing terms with definitions? I'm not an expert by any means, and I find myself looking things up around here once in a while (yoyoing for example).
 
Getting way too ambitious around here, methinks...

Latest revision as of 06:30, 26 May 2005

I'm from Langley, and unlike most of you, don't attend UBC. Langara represent!

Categorization

I'm going to make an attempt to categorize things on the Wiki. It seems that nobody's done this from the start, so it could be an interesting undertaking...anyone else is welcome to help. If you didn't know about the categorization features of Mediawiki, just create a link to Category:CategoryName anywhere in the article, and the article will be added to that category. A link will be added at the bottom of the article, and the category page will contain that article. New categories can be created simply by linking a page to them, and each category can have information added about it and such on the category page in the normal fashion. Creating a link to more than one category will add the article to all the categories linked. This should make it easier to keep track of the various indexes of articles.

Here's a start for a structure, comment on my talk page:

Templates

I've also added a couple of warning templates to help improve consistency. Also, a GFDL license template. They're at Template:Warning, Template:Illegal and Template:GFDL, and were basically taken verbatim from Wikipedia (allowed under GFDL). They look like this (view the source to see how to use them if you're not a Mediawiki veteran):


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Please exercise caution when utilizing this information.
This article describes behaviour that is illegal
The content of this article is not an admission of guilt by the editor, nor should it be emulated.

Editors: Be aware that anything you add here will be visible to any and all forever. It cannot be deleted. Don't add anything here that might implicate you or others.

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Subject to disclaimers.

Silly Ideas

Before I go to bed, one more silly thing...

Maybe it would be a good idea to have a 'glossary' of hiking/climbing/skiing terms with definitions? I'm not an expert by any means, and I find myself looking things up around here once in a while (yoyoing for example).

Getting way too ambitious around here, methinks...

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