A View From The Top after 4 Pitches of Climbing….. The last two weekends running, I have been in the mountains. Last weekend was at Hidden Valley near Jasper, where I accompanied a few members of the Alpine Club of Canada on a traditional multi-pitch rock climbing trip with an instructional bent. This weekend past [...]
Here’s a video compilation of my recent trip to the mountains. Enjoy! Buffer
So we’ve already determined that I am a mountain person extraordinaire. But we weren’t so sure I was a camping person. My last experience camping was on the May 24th weekend some 6 or so years ago. Upon leaving the campground after 3 days of shivering in the cold and getting soaked by the rain, [...]
It’s amazing what 3000kms and 3 provinces will do for changing the landscape….. And I don’t mean just the physical landscape. Although if you’ve seen the Rocky Mountains you needn’t go any further to know that you’re in a drastically different place. What I’m talking about are the small subtle differences between Toronto (or Ontario [...]
Now that we have had a chance to settle down in Edmonton and reflect on our last month of travelling, we learned a few key lessons about backpacking. Some of them are “common travelling and backpacking knowledge” tidbits that we chose to ignore, and some are more personal discoveries. Here is the “Coles Notes version”: [...]
Wow. Is the train ever the way to travel! So many people dream of traveling across Canada by train. Yet so few seem to do it. Strong Travel Recommendation: If you have the time and ability to travel across the country, take the train! It’s the way to go in our eyes. DAY ONE OF [...]
This is just a taste of the scenery we expect to drink in during our summer in Alberta. The photo was taken while trekking last May (2006) on Parker Ridge, near the Columbia Icefields. You can expect many more photos as we travel; as soon as Blogger works out some kinks in regards to hosting [...]
