Like nomads, but with more stuff

Not only did we start camping when we arrived here three years ago, but we have been covetously looking at campers. With nighttime temperatu...

 Back when we bought the cabin, a friend alerted us to a canoe going cheap. We bought it and stored it under the deck at Terry's dad...

 To my delight, and probably everyone else in the family's, I have found a women's hiking group. Much less nagging the family to com...

  Before we had ever arrived in Calgary we had heard about the Gopher Hole Museum and it was on our bucket list. Then COVID hit and we didn...

  This has been an unusual year. The snow isn't melting as fast as usual, many hiking trails and campgrounds that would normally be open...

 Since the last post, way back in January ...  We've skied. Literally every weekend since January 8 at least one member of the family sk...

 Friday's adventure: maple syrup taffy All it takes is some boiled syrup (to 235-245F) and snow. Check and check. In one set of instruct...

 Planning my new year goals and one is to get out of my rut. Try new things again. Lockdown has really gotten me out of the habit, even thou...

 Things felt relatively normal this year - fewer than half the kids wearing masks and a sense that kids weren't being kept at home due t...

Last night the aurora was so strong and so high we caught a shot of it from our back yard.  We live relatively close to the downtown area, s...

    Last week a woman I had met in a hiking group asked if I wanted to accompany her on a hike that, according to Alltrails, is way longer A...

Something I have pretty much never done before - taken a random day off from work to do something fun!  A friend was celebrating her 50th bi...

  As said before, the family vetoes hikes with an incline. So, a little nervous about the possibility of bears, I clutched by bear spray tig...

Disclaimer: Terry neither took nor edited these photos. After last week's aborted attempt to hike Wasootch Ridge, I realized I needed c...

 In deciding where we will ski all of next winter, we realized that a mountain we'd visited once, on one of the coldest days in a cold p...

  Between skiing, bad weather, and some foolish promises to the kids, we have not hiked much lately. For this trip we had the constraints of...

To finish the trifecta of "SkiBig3" we headed to Sunshine Village on Sunday.  The weather was nearly the exact same as the day bef...

We have a mission to try the main ski mountains in the area this year, to choose the contenders for next year's season pass (only one wi...

 The fog was so thick I am pretty sure there should have been additional mountains in view.  The hike was a bit of a slog - the "snowsh...

The kids have a 5 day weekend (one has a 6 day weekend but I put in a dentist appointment, bwa-ha-ha). So, Terry and I took off Thursday - t...