VANCOUVER -- Snowshoeing is one of the easiest, and least expensive, ways to exercise or get out and enjoy the winter in southern British Columbia. If you can walk, you can snowshoe. But some people are taking the winter pastime to the extreme, making it an endurance sport. There's room for all kinds of snowshoers on the mountains around Vancouver, including the North Shore slopes, peaks in the Callaghan Valley, and one of the newest resort areas above Howe Sound in Squamish. All three North Shore Mountains -- Seymour, Grouse and Cypress -- have snowshoeing. However, they were difficult to access over the holiday season, with long traffic lines or extended...
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