Lions Bay Firefighters and the people of Lions Bay wish to extend a heartfelt thank you to the donors of this years event. Please click the read more link to view all of our gracious sponsors.

As the ground has now thawed and rain and melting snow saturate the earth during the early summer months, hiking trails become especially muddy, wet, and slippery. If you're planning on hitting the trails above the village, here are some tips to keep in mind.

Hiking trails can change dramatically during the spring, and a trail you know well during the summer can throw you for a loop in early spring. Run-off causes streams to swell, making some water features more difficult to pass than at other times of the year. Rocks may also become unstable as the thawing ice and water works them lose from their substrates. Rockfall is very common at this time of year.

As most Lions Bay citizens probably know, we Fire Rescue members train for four hours (7-11pm) every wednesday night, year-round, and supplement that training with more hours on our shifts’ weekends every four weeks.

Come spring time, a large number of additional saturdays and sundays are spent certifying our newest volunteers and re-certifying our senior members in our core competencies.

So even this year, while we haven't seen all too much proof of spring, let alone summer having arrived, we chose to rely more on our calendars than on an increase of sunshine, and have already gone through full weekends of our mandatory wildland fire fighter certification, two Auto Extrication courses and individual requirements for our emergency vehicle operators.