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GARAGE SALE for GLOBAL FAMILY VILLAGE- don't miss it! - Sat. 17 Sept.
Come and visit us at the New Edinburgh garage sale at 151 Stanley Street. Meet the team heading to Everest Base Camp in 4 weeks. We have collected a huge selection of things you didn't know you needed (or wanted) from friends and family. If we don't have...
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TRAINING LOG
Date Name Location Hours Comments 11-01-09 Liz Arlene Josette Barry Anda Green's Creek North of Montreal Road 3.50 Fantastic day, blue sky in the morning and 15 cm of fresh snow. Does it get any better?? Of course the extra 45 minutes of chasing after...
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6 Peaks - Vorlage
Shortly after six in the evening we set out to conquer the first of the "6 Peaks in 6 Days", Vorlage. Coming in at a vertical altitude of 150M, our 2 ascents and descents for a total of 600 vertical meters travelled, took just under two hours. It was...
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6 Peaks - Calabogie
The humidity has subsided, another perfect summer day, it is Saturday. We have driven like maniacs to Calabogie which seems further away than anyone expected or at least, can remember. Our biggest crowd yet, 16 people. Newcomers, Arnold, Liz and Tammy...
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15 October- Buddha Eyes and Monkeys
We rise early to rambled along the gently awakening streets of Kathmandu towards the impressive Swayambhunath Temple (a.k.a Monkey Temple). The relentless harangue of retail hawkers flogging their wares on foreign visitors is blissfully absent. Street...
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16 October - In the Village of the Rice Goddess
It was the first day on the job for the GVF Trek Logkeeper, and he got enough of Katmandu’s sights, tastes, sounds and smells to last him for a long time to come. The whole GFV Trek team is here now, and we got up at seven-thirty or so for an excellent...
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25 October - The Big Day!
This was a major hiking day--starting at 7:30 from Lobuche, we walked along the massive Khumbu Glacier. The mountains seemed incredibly close, so clear is the air here. We started the hard climbing at about 8:30 or so, and as always, we walked in slow...
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6 Peaks - Edelweiss
We are over the half, the forth peak of the region is Edelweiss. In good form and spirits after the heat of yesterday, the team sets out to climb. It is a bit cooler this evening and the road seems easy to walk. Suddenly we reach a point where the group...
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6 Peaks in 6 Days
Everest Base Camp via Gatineau Hills Join Us See the full story in the Ottawa Citizen May 31st, 2011 OTTAWA – A group of Ottawa hikers will soon be climbing six local peaks in six days to raise funds and awareness for their fall charity trek in Nepal....
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We Have Arrived in Kathmandu!
After eight months of training and fund raising the dream is materializing into a reality. The trek participants en route from Ottawa, all straggle in from far-flung places (Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai, New Delphi) following days of travel, to that exotic...
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Keeping in Step(s) nearly 200,000!!!
When you think about climbing in the Himalayas, you think of climbing up... and up... and up. What better way to train than to climb stairs. It is great cardivascular training but puts a huge strain on your knees, especially going down so we started slowly...
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The Final Tally - $26,253 Thank you everyone!
(L>R Front sitting: Liesha, Tanya, Gopal; Middle: Manda, Nynke, Wendy, Judy, Jamie,Jen, Denis, Arlene, Barry, Lisa; Behind: Bala, Anda, Pem Dorje) It is with great pleasure, pride and heart felt thanks that I can give you the final tally of our tremendous...
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6 Peaks - Camp Fortune
Brutal , there is just no other way to describe it BRUUUUUUTAL!!! You might ask "why?" or say "you all really need to get your heads examined", both question and comment would be reasonable when a group of people decide to hike up a mountain...twice,...
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6 Peaks - Mont Cascades
The conditions were really marginal for skiing but our intrepid hikers set out, none the less, to climb the second of the 6 PEAKS in 6 DAYS to raise money for G LOBAL FAMILY VILLAGE , ahead of their trek to Everest Base Camp in October. Each participant...
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9 WEEKS TO GO...
L->R Front: Wendy, Nynke, Anda Middle: Jamie, (Maire Christine), Becky, Denis, Judy Back: Tanya, Barry, Lisa, Liesha, Arlene, (Liz) Missing: Jen Two months from today the incredible adventure begins. But for more than six months this great team of 13...
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$19,134 Total Donations Todate!
Wait for it................We raised $11,379 in September!!! Wow, what a remarkable reflection of generosity, support and hard work. September was the month of bake sales, a huge garage sale, a house party, and incredible support from friends, family...
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6 Peaks - Mont Ste Marie...the Finale
Here we are at Mont Ste Marie for the finale of the 6 Peaks in 6 Days challenge. And challenge it is as this mountain soars 381 meters, more than twice as high as most of the previous hills we climbed this week. However, the weather is absolutely perfect...
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What's in a Cake? EBC??
Imagine our surprise and delight when, at Wendy and Scot's recent end-of-summer BBQ, Wendy's friend Jocelyn presented the trek participants there with a magnificent cake in the shape of Everest Base Camp. Complete with prayer flags and toothpick secured...
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The Departure BBQ
The rugged banks of the Ottawa River, just beginning to blush with fall colours, was perfect. Counting down to the trek...on September 25, we all came together for the first time...and the last before we gather in Kathmandu in the second week of October,...
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Talented Trekker -House Concert for Global Family Village
This Saturday past (September 24th), the strains of such classics as "Fire and Rain," "House of the Rising Sun," and "Charlie Fox Put on his Socks" (old tune, new words) could be heard rising from Liesha Mayo-Bruinsma's house in Ottawa. Liesha had volunteered...
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September 8th - Baked Goodies for a Good Cause
Arlene and many of her friends volunteered to organized a hugely successful Bake Sale ($712) at Ben Franklin Place, Ottawa. Our thanks to all who wandered through the atrium and bought from the wonderful selection of home baked goodies. We were able to...
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Thinking globally and climbing locally to raise funds for Nepal
Jamison Findlay, a trek participant and published author has written a wonderful summary of our 6 Peaks initiative. Enjoy the article published in Ottawa Magazine. http://www.ottawamagazine.com/society/2011/08/20/six-peaks-in-six-days-thinking-globally-climbing-locally/...
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A Cornucopia Never Seen Before in New Edinburgh!
“Good morning, ma’am! I see you’re looking at that elegant wine-bottle drying rack. It’s antique, by the way. Yes, I know it’s plastic, but that’s heritage plastic, ma’am… For you? A special price for you, ma’am. I’ll even throw in this twenty-inch mirrored...
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21, 22 October - The Monastery in the Clouds
We left Namche Bazar in a light drizzle which soon turned to snow, but we soldiered on cheerfully, across a mountainside and past the stupa (memorial) to Tenzing Norgay and the Sherpas who helped Sir Edmund Hillary. Even in the mist and light snow, the...
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27, 28 October - Back into the Green Regions
Today was a gorgeous morning--a gosling day, as they say in PEI. We walked out of the Pheriche valley ; trees (mainly juniper) began to appear, as well as flowers and shrubs and tilled plots of land, separated by the stone fences you see everywhere here....