Category: Hiking

Thursday, June 18th, Day 21 of our trip and the 14th day in Newfoundland, was so amazing it’s taking me two posts to tell you about it. This first one is about a hike, the next will be about our spectacular iceberg boat tour. After a good experience with...

Tuesday, June 16th, Day 19 of our trip and the 12th day in Newfoundland, was a long day of driving due to our Most Excellent detour to Gros Morne yesterday. We had 421 km to cover. We got off to an early start, mostly because we not only had...

Monday, June 15th, Day 18 of our trip and the 11th day in Newfoundland, didn’t go anything like we had planned – it was far better 🙂 I was up early writing as usual, when a boat came along and hurried back and forth along our bit of coast...

Sunday, June 14, Day 17 of our trip and the 10th day in Newfoundland, was intended to be a partial day to explore Port au Choix before moving on, but we very soon decided to stay another night. As I write this, it’s our favourite community so far. My...

On Saturday, June 6th, Day 9 of the trip, we drove another 230 km north to Shoal Brook, one of several communities in Gros Morne National Park. Gros Morne was one of our main destinations in Newfoundland – although we only had one firm plan, a boat tour, we...

Friday, June 5th, Day 8 of the trip, was our first day of exploring Newfoundland, and it was a beauty, with a fine example of what passion can accomplish with a ruined stone building, and a walk to a nice waterfall. We also picked up a rented Starlink Mini...

I needed to go into town yesterday to pick up a couple of things, so took my hiking and camera gear with the idea of putting about 4 km on, though I didn’t have a plan for where that might happen. Nothing inspired me and I was on my...

I’m writing this post because it’s quite different than the Venus Mine hike on May 15th. First, I took another person, but we also climbed all the way up to the upper level and adit, which is mostly what I want to show you. After seeing my post about...

The Venus Mine has become not just an awesome destination for a hike, but also a test for me to assess how I’m doing. Being able to reach the mine is always extremely gratifying, and I was about 65 years old when I recognized it as something to celebrate...

While scanning old papers yesterday, I came across a fairly detailed report on a hike I did at Anchorage in August 1990. The Wolverine Peak Trail remains one of the finest day-hikes I’ve ever done, so I thought I’d share a few of the Kodachromes I shot. There are...