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[Victoria Watcher]

He challenged himself to hike all 47 peaks of the Sooke Hills

 

About half of the peaks have trails leading to the top, but the others require route-finding skills, bushwhacking and a choose-your-own-adventure ­attitude.

 

 

 

Rodney Newcombe is the kind of person who enjoys type-two fun. As in fun that pushes you to your limits and isn’t really all that fun in the moment, but you look back on fondly.

 

Think running a marathon, or say, bushwhacking through dense vegetation so wet that “it’s practically like swimming” to the top of a hill that doesn’t even have a view.

That’s how the 30-year-old Esquimalt resident described a recent hike up Homer Hill in Sooke.

 

“No trail. Soaked head to toe. Yeah, not the greatest,” he said.

 

Still, he chose to keep going, because he had challenged himself to hike all 47 peaks in the Sooke Hills that are named in Gaia GPS, a mapping software used by hikers and other outdoor adventurers. (The challenge actually started as 48, but Newcombe has since learned that one of the peaks is on private property, so he removed it from the list.)

 

“At one point I was just like, although I’m not going to necessarily enjoy the summit at all, it will just be more the fact that one day I’ll have all of these done,” Newcombe said.

 

 

https://www.timescol...e-hills-7753194

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 29 October 2023 - 06:02 AM.