June 3, 2015 Backpacking At Lake Minnewanka Determined to get the most out of backpacking season this year, Mike and I started hitting the trails earlier than usual. A mild winter…
July 30, 2012 Backpacking Flores Island: Getting There After weeks of preparation, and quite a lot of anxiety, and making of arrangements, we hit the road for Vancouver Island on Friday, July…
May 14, 2012 Hitting The Slopes, Eating Weird Things, And Other Goodness Some months back, Mike’s mom, Ruth, and his sister, Michelle, came out to Alberta for a visit! It was so great to see them,…
April 21, 2011 Our Weekend At The Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel Last weekend Jay invited Mike and I to join him and the kids in Banff for a couple of days, and to spend the…
April 12, 2011 We Are Headed To Banff This Weekend! My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing – Aldous Huxley I know my recent updates have been a…
September 9, 2010 Lake Luellen: Day Three – August 2010 Sunday morning was blessedly warmer than Saturday morning had been, and when we hauled ourselves out of our sleeping bags at 7:30 am there…
September 7, 2010 Lake Luellen: Day Two – August 2010 On Saturday morning around 6 am I reluctantly extracted myself from the warm cocoon of my mummy sleeping bag, in order to, um, answer the call…
September 6, 2010 Lake Luellen: Day One – August 2010 So our long-awaited and much-anticipated first-ever overnight hiking trip went off wonderfully. It was just Mike and I, and 36 km of heavily wooded…