Hiking adventures up and down the West Coast of Canada and the U.S.
The Elfin Lakes hike has been on my bucket list for a few years. It is a well-known and very popular overnight trip near Vancouver. The winter has been a long one in Vancouver but I finally bit the bullet and reserved a Friday night at the shelter, with the forecast promising a mix of sun and clouds. It would do.
Yesterday was the first day of spring and the forecast was for sunshine! I decided to head for the North Shore mountains and do a trail that I try to do every winter: Mount Seymour summit in Mount Seymour Provincial Park.
Last week I had the ridiculous good fortune of being able to take a trip to San Diego. One day of our trip we drove out to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park to hike and see the amazing mass bloom of wildflowers.
This week a callout came through the Wanderung Group for a hike into Manning Park, a provincial park about 2 hours east of Vancouver. I replied to the email right away and offered up my chauffeur services. I was headed to Manning Park, and more specifically to Windy Joe Lookout!
This past weekend was a long weekend in British Columbia known as “Family Day”. The weather was getting better and better, so I made plans with a hiking buddy to get together and head up a newer local attraction: the Sea to Sky Gondola. We would then have access to some great mountain snowshoeing.
After successfully beating off early-season colds, it was time to get back out on a serious trail. Last weekend we…
If you have a couple hours to spend in Kalamalka Lake Provincial Park, then I would definitely recommend doing the Lookout Trail. It gave us a great taste of the different ecosystems of the park and some awesome views of the surrounding area.
This week I have the good fortune to be dog & house sitting near the city of Vernon, in the Okanagan Valley. My friend’s two magnificent mutts are awesome hikers, and enjoy being out on the trail for a couple hours at a time
I would definitely count Skyline Divide as one of my favourite hikes. It is a perfect distance for a day hike, not too easy but not too hard either, and offers insanely beautiful views for the better part of the trail.
Sunrise is a truly beautiful area of Mount Rainier to explore. We were lucky enough to get a taste of much of it, spending a couple nights at backcountry sites, a couple nights at a front country campground, hiking low, hiking high, seeing sunsets and sunrises.