Egypt Lake Area
If possible, it’s always a treat to take vacation time in mid-September. It’s always much easier to book camping permits mid-week and enjoy quieter trails and campgrounds this way. This […]
If possible, it’s always a treat to take vacation time in mid-September. It’s always much easier to book camping permits mid-week and enjoy quieter trails and campgrounds this way. This […]
After our spring travels it was back to Calgary, and enjoying the mountains in summer weather. As we have done the last several years, we enjoyed cycling on the seasonally […]
From Seville we took a train to Granada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, and site of the Alhambra. We arrived on a Saturday and were immediately appalled […]
Leaving Portugal behind, a 4.5hr bus journey took us to the center of Seville. This section of the trip allowed us to drop our heavy backpacks and enjoy some fantastic […]
Following a wedding celebration in the UK, Laura and I took off for a hiking trip down the SW coast of Portugal. We began the trip in Lisbon before taking […]
In January I transitioned from one job to another. I spent a week in between exploring and bouldering in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area of Nevada. We had […]
Between some of the trips documented in the Autumn 2022 post, we also took time off work to visit Haida Gwaii. Specifically we took an overnight ferry from Prince Rupert […]
Despite having declared the summer over in my previous blog post, the weather had other ideas. This autumn was dubbed “hot-umn” in the Calgary area. Consequently we enjoyed at least […]
Spring turned to summer and the abundant snowpack slowly melted away, helping to keep forest fires at bay. We started off the main hiking season with a favourite that we […]
This spring in the Rockies near Calgary has been marked by rain, and a persistent snowpack which has delayed our hiking adventures (and brought relief to farmers, so we can’t […]