PNOA News letter for the first quarter of 2024

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter. 

Time is flying by while we are having fun.  

Club News and Recent Events:

Jan 1, 2024 Mount Seymour trail day hike was led by Paul Tan, It was a great way to start the New Year. Shortly, a Snow Camping followed on the Mountain Seymour for a glorious winter sunset experience on Jan 6, 2024.  click the link for detail:

Jan 20, 2024 PNOA held the second Outdoor Safety Workshop named “Cold Talk” at Elgin Hall. After the success last year, we invited the outdoor safety professionals from Search and Rescue BC, and 21st South Surrey Scouts  for a safety training specific for outdoor activities in winter season. When we have fun in the outdoors it is important that we stay safe. There were 35 participants.  Please view post

Feb 4, 2024 AGM with 49 attendees. It was a very inspiring meeting taking care of PNOA’s varieties of business while  having fun. Please click on the link to see what we did

Feb 17-25, 2024 Interior ski trip to Sun Peak, Silver Star, Big White and Revelstoke with Tim and Lisa. We really needed this trip as snow was very sparse on the local mountains. To view:

Mar 2 and Mar 3, 2024 PNOA 2nd AST-1Training.  We need to continuously improve our safety knowledge and skills. View post at:



Mar 12, 2024 Online Zoom meeting for team leader refreshing and training. The more leaders we have the more adventures we can have.

Here is a cursory glance for coming up major events:

Apr 6, 7, 2024 Skiing Trip in Whistler  
Aug 17-25, 2024 Yellow Stone Cycling and Car Camping
Sep 21-29, 2024 Lake O’Hara Skoki Loop 

Oct 12-20 Grand Canyon Rim2Rim Hiking

More events to come, stay tuned!

Make sure you participate in PNOA events. The more people that participate, the more fun we will have. Plus we would like some suggestions for future events. 

Call your friends to join. 

It is the time to renew your 2024-2025 membership, please register on our PNOA website: https://pnoa.ca/register/ 

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