Daniel Ennett and Frederick Kroetsch at the accessibility mat at Kin Beach, ready to film a scene for their show Crip Trip (photo by Liam Verster / Vernon Matters)

By Liam Verster

Season Two

Crip Trip makes stop in Vernon, films at Kin Beach

Sep 22, 2025 | 5:12 PM

A scene for the second season of the television show Crip Trip was filmed at Vernon’s Kin Beach.

Crip Trip is a documentary series that follows quadruple amputee, Daniel Ennett, and his friend and appointed care-giver, Frederick Kroetsch, as they travel across North America to meet with other people with disabilities and hear about their issues and discuss accessibility.

“We’ve been working on [Crip Trip] for about three years,” Kroetsch explained while speaking about the premise of the show in their stop in Vernon. “It started off as a documentary pitch and then it just evolved. Danny was like, ‘Let’s make it entertaining, why don’t you be my care giver, 24 hours a day in it, and show the audience what it’s like to be thrown into [care work].”

“That’s an aspect of care work that people can’t really see from the outside: how many things you have to change, how many routines you have to change and get used to, as well as basic accessibility needs. He really learned, as it was his first time being a full time care-giver, and he did it while travelling, which is the hardest way to do it [and a month after Kroetsch having a stroke], because there’s no accessibility measures,” Ennett added.

The pair and the film crew stopped by Kin Beach Monday, Sept. 22, to shoot a scene at a new accessibility mat on the beach.

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“It doesn’t look like much, but most beaches do not have [accessibility mats], so this actually makes the beach kind of accessible,” Kroestch said.

“[Sand] churns power wheelchairs like mine, I just get instantly bogged down,” Ennett explained. He said he has been on beaches before but needs to do so using a manual wheelchair and pitching it back to get some leverage, though said that required a lot of work by the care giver.

Daniel Ennett and Frederick Kroetsch shortly before shooting a scene for their show Crip Trip at Kin Beach (photo by Liam Verster / Vernon Matters)

Behind the scene of Crip Trip filming at Kin Beach in Vernon (video by Liam Verster / Vernon Matters)

The pair noted these types of accessibility measures are beneficial to not only people in Ennett’s situation, but the public in general.

“Disability might not affect you now, but people tend to age into disability,” Ennett said.

“If you want to bring grandma to the beach, which isn’t out of the realm of possibilities, then these types of things help keep activities open. ‘Build it and they will come’ is the kind of mantra as far as making things accessible, and you’re opening your market too so it doesn’t hurt.”

Ennett and Kroetsch also spent some time Monday meeting with a Vernon woman who had also suffered a stroke recently.

The pair continue their filming of season two of Crip Trip by hitting the road in their van and heading to Vancouver, before traveling down the coast to Las Vegas.

Daniel Ennett and Fred Kroestch with the Crip Trip van at Kin Beach (photo by Liam Verster / Vernon Matters)

The new season, featuring the scene shot in Vernon, will air on AMI and AMI+ in the late-spring or summer of 2026. Their first season can also be found on that platform.

The accessibility mat at Kin Beach was purchased late this summer and was to be installed next year, but was set up to accommodate the filming and will remain at the beach through the rest of the season.