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So this was another big year for us, because It felt like we'd finally established the Mount Saint Helens trip as a part of the culture at Vanier. It was year five for us, we stayed pretty consistent with numbers (this year saw 41 students) and word did finally spread around that hanging out with Bo

2011 was crazy. First of all it was Mr. John Carswell's retirement year and since so many of the students who took Geography 12 came from the Explore program at Vanier (that Carswell started and ran for so many years) Bourget and I felt it important to include Carswell on our trip. Little did we kno

We took 43 students to Saint Helens this year and it was really comforting to see that our numbers were consistent, not a blip in a pattern from the previous years. Bourget was offering two geology classes and I was offering two geography classes (back when we had substantial numbers of grade 12 stu