works of wanderlust

Tag: backpacking

  • Backpacking: Foggy Mountain Bridges

    In the summer of 2017 we travelled in a group of four adults and two tweens just across the Alberta-British Columbia border to the Mount Robson to climb the Berg Lake trail. After four nights atop the mountain, camping rough and day-hiking the area we were wet, tired and running low on supplies. The kids

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  • Would You Rather Camp or Trek?

    Here’s a question for any outdoors person… given a year to do one or the other, and all things being equal, would you rather: Camp, in as much as you have a whole year to build an amazing setup in the wilderness, craft a log cabin with your own hands, spend your days foraging, building,

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  • Skoki: Scrambling Down

    High up and nestled in a mountain valley above Lake Louise, Alberta, the Skoki trail is a moderately challenging adventure hike. Sure, you could helicopter in, and sure, you could stay at the lodge (which has hosted celebrities and royals.) Or, you can hike the distance up and over the summit, into the valley and

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  • Iceland: Chasing Waterfalls

    I snapped close to ten thousand photos over the course of not-quite-two weeks travelling around Iceland in 2014, and disproportional number of those pics included waterfalls. for whatever one photo is worth: Skógafoss is a huge waterfall on the Skógá River in the very southern bulge of Iceland. It was one of the first big

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  • Comics: Backpacking with Kids

    When my daughter was younger I wrote, illustrated and shared an online web comic about fatherhood. It documented some of the quirky things we did and used some of the funny things she said as the heartbeat of the jokes. The comics are mostly still (mostly) online at www.piday.ca but to save readers from trotting

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