Mt. Waddington's Outdoors

The Vedder and Chilliwack rivers are among the most heavily fished water in the Lower Mainland, and that one fact shapes the sporting goods trade here more than anything inside the city limits does. Tackle, rods and river gear are a serious local business rather than an aisle at the back of a big-box store, and the shops selling them cluster toward Vedder Crossing, which is where the anglers actually go. Around that sits the rest of it: hiking and climbing for Elk Mountain and the Cheam range, paddling for Cultus Lake, hunting supply for the back country, and the ordinary team-sport trade of a city with a lot of youth hockey.

The listing publishes a website and no phone number. For a shop of this kind the website is arguably the more useful of the two, because the questions that matter in this trade are seasonal and change from week to week, and nothing on a directory page can be current about any of them. What this page can do is fix the address, on Vedder Road in the stretch running down toward the crossing, and confirm that the shop is an independent one, since the national outdoor chains do not appear in this directory at all.