Yes, this is the only indoor PV facility in BC.
Also, Gerard Dumas coaches the Victoria Track Club vaulters in the Oak Bay Secondary School gym. That's probably OK for high schoolers and some masters, but I wouldn't call it a "full-fledged" vaulting facility.
In Vancouver, they have built a new speed-skating oval in Richmond (near the Vancouver airport, where Pogo lives), and they will have an indoor track there when they convert it into a multi-sport facility after the 2010 Winter Olympics.
But sadly, they do not intend to have any pole vaulting facilities there. Something about not enough interest in the sport to justify it. Apparently for each event there's a certain weekly usage per athlete per square meter formula that you need to surpass, to justify the cost and space. Pogo and I will have to work on that!
If you look at the image of the Kamloops vaulting facility (third image down, on left side of thumbnails), the pit looks illegally small. But if that's the case, I wouldn't worry too much. They'll haul in a regulation size pit for the Masters. I was looking for mention of a PV coach on the site, but didn't see any coach mention it, so (as suspected) PV isn't big in Kamloops.
I'm a little envious, though, that Kamloops has such a nice indoor training facility, and Vancouver doesn't - even though the population of Greater Vancouver is about 25 times the pop of Kamloops!
On a side note, Kamloops is where Dylan Armstrong lives and trains. He's the shot putter that missed the Bronze in Bejing by one centimetre! He threw 21.04m. He's coached by Dr. Anatoly Bondarchuk, who has a very impressive resume. This is all on the Kamloops Track & Field website that Pogo posted above.
So Kamloops looks like a real throwers haven, with Armstrong and Bondarchuk there!
Kamloops is about a four hour drive from Vancouver, for anyone considering flying to Vancouver and renting a car. It's a very nice, scenic drive up the Fraser Canyon, in case you might be planning some sightseeing into your trip. Or you can take a quicker route on the Coquihalla Highway which will save you a half hour. The toll booths are gone on the Coquihalla now. I'd actually recommend going up one way and back the other, to see more of "Beautiful BC".
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