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Chocolate & Pastries at Thierry
Broke & Bougie
Wander the UBC Research Forest
Free colour-coded trails through 5,000 hectares of Douglas firs and old growth that predates Canada. UBC's lab, your date.
Broke & Bougie
Free colour-coded trails through 5,000 hectares of Douglas firs and old growth that predates Canada. UBC's lab, your date.
Technically, the Malcolm Knapp Research Forest is UBC's 5,000-hectare outdoor laboratory. Practically, it is a vast walk through towering Douglas firs and lush ferns that costs you nothing except the drive there and a donation at the gate if you're feeling grateful. Patches of old growth in here predate Canada, which puts a certain productive pressure on your sense of scale and also your complaints about the week. The trails are colour-coded, the easy red loop is the obvious starting move, and the whole place has the texture of discovering something major that most people have somehow missed. Pick a loop. Hold hands. Breathe correctly for the first time in recent memory. Everything beyond the donation box is on the house. The forest does not charge extra for the excellent air or the very good silence.
