Like nomads, but with more stuff

 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...

Back during our first full summer when we were camping neophytes and made lots of mistakes, we spent a couple of nights in the Peter Loughee...

Between Terry's broken ankle and wanting to spend every free moment skiing during winter, we have not been hiking. Although some trails ...

  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...

    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...

  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...

 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...

Saturday we were up and out the door to a well-recommended hiking trail - Boom Lake. It was our longest hike as a family - over 10km. Terry ...

November and December being on different calendar pages, it didn't occur to me I was booking two weekends in a row when I looked at the ...

We dedicated Saturday of our Jasper long weekend to Moraine. Moraine Canyon is about 15 minutes outside Jasper, with Moraine Lake another 30...

It is (1) our second successful trip to Jasper and (2) our second attempt to visit Jasper in the winter. So for both of these reasons we sho...

It was meant to be the first snowshoe of the season, but there wasn't enough snow and what was there was pretty packed down. Because we ...

In every adventure we have had since arriving in Calgary, we've left the city and headed west - to the mountains, towards British Columb...

It turns out to have been a good thing that we had already told the kids we'd head out for our Canmore bike ride later in the morning, a...

  On our last morning I woke earlier than anyone else and couldn't sleep. But it was of course in the 40s and that doesn't work for...