Category: Hiking

I normally limit my visits with family to 3 days, but this time I went for 5, and it worked out very well. I spent a lot of time exploring the nearby Carburn Park and Bow River Trail, and walked almost 20 km there. I was amazed by how...

A friend posted a meme on Facebook yesterday morning that got me thinking (thanks, Sue!). It said “Turn off the news. Go outside. Breathe. We were not meant to carry the burden of the entire world.” I’ve been doing quite well in moving away from the nastiness of politics,...

Last September I posted an article about “Paddling BC’s Bowron Lakes circuit in 1968,” a trip that I have many photos of but no memory of. That was an enjoyable way to recreate a significant adventure and it brought back some tiny fragments of memories of the trip. This...

It’s been many years since I’ve posted a product review. I get occasional requests by manufacturers to review various products but none have caught my attention since I did a couple of motorcycle jackets. I’ve always been curious about high-end hiking pants, though, so when I got an email...

My project yesterday (February 27th) was to document the entire Waterfront Trail, to show people what it looks like as a reply to some online complaints about how the new buildings in Whitehorse have ruined the views of the river we used to have. In actual fact, we now...

This post was written this morning for my page at The Outbound Collective, but I decided to post it here instead. The writing is a bit different than my normal because it’s written for people who know nothing about the Yukon – the articles are meant as a “first...

This post is about a mystery that’s been in my files for 35 years, that I have finally solved. There are two creeks in British Columbia named Airplane Creek. One is a tributary of the upper Stikine River, but this post is about the one east of Chilliwack. It...

Back on November 28, I mentioned that although I thought that our drive to Oatman would be the highlight of the trip, we had another day that equalled it. This was that day, and it’s taking three posts to tell you about it (this is the second). See an...

Cathy has been wanting to get back to Haines for a long time, so a couple of weeks ago made a reservation at the Oceanside RV Park. I arranged for a Haines friend to meet me at the Haines Summit for a hike the day before that reservation started,...

When I spent a day on Little Atlin Lake on July 10th, we were at the foot of White Mountain, and it occurred to me that for some reason I had never hiked the trail that climbs it. On Tuesday, August 6th, I rectified that – well, mostly. When...