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Quick question! I worked for the BCPS a few years ago and had worked the required number of hours to qualify for benefits then. I’ve since left the BCPS for a few years, but now returned to a similar position (aux for now). I heard that returning employees are eligible for reinstatement of benefits immediately if they once qualified but digging through the collective agreement I can’t for the life of my find any information about it.

Thanks!

Looking for vet recommendations in town! Whose good / who should be avoided?

Hi all,

This might not fit in this sub but I'm hoping some folks have some suggestions for healthy-ish backpacking meals! I'm working for the Forest Service, and after years of eating pretty unhealthily for my meals I want to upgrade my diet as much as I can to eat better when I'm out at work.

In the past I've done the classic instant oatmeal, salami/cheese/crackers / freeze-dried meals or knorr sidekicks, mac and cheese, etc, but I'm SO tired of these and feel like they probably aren't all that healthy eating this day after day for many months at a time.

Despite hiking and doing physical activity all day I feel like these things are still bad for me to eat, highly processed, full of bad fats/sugars, preservatives, etc.

I'd love some suggestions for how I can make this stuff healthier.

Hi all,

Looking for recommendations for which Marin bike to get! Love the look of all of these but having trouble discering the specific differences beyond the obvious drop-bar / flat bar etc.

I come from a mountain biking background and am looking to add a gravel bike to the quiver. My use-case for this bike is a bit of everything: around town, fitness on gravel roads and light singletrack, and commuting. I do also have some aspirations of bike-packing, but nothing crazy. I would love to do some weekend trips, up to week-long or potentially growing into multi-week. For more rough terrain I have my mountain bike, but I'd love to use a gravel bike for stuff as hard as more well-groomed green mountain bike trails or rough gravel/logging roads. I'm in Southwest BC / PNW and lots of the best bikepacking routes are on fairly rough logging roads and light singletrack.

The models I'm looking at are the Nicasco, Four Corners, but then the DSX / Muirwoods is also intruiging. As a mountain biker I don't love the super aggressive drop-bar stance, so am leaning towards the Four Corners but the Nicasco doesn't look too aggressive either.

Needs:

- can fit larger tires - 50x700c would be great.

- not super aggressive drop-bar

- good gearing for steeper hills / touring with loaded gear (lots of quite steep hills where I am, 15% + grade).

Beyond that I'm pretty open to suggestions!

EDIT: at least for the time being I want a bike that comes mostly specced well enough stock that I wouldn't need to immediately change things out (whether bars, tires, etc). I'm open to it in the future but reasonably limited by funds! The Four Corners 1 is calling to me currently because it comes stock with 40c tires and wide drop bars.