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Snowshoes on a Frozen Suburban Creek
After a bitterly cold week the sun broke through the chill for a few hours on a recent Saturday afternoon. I met with some friends to explore a local creek, frozen and snowy, on a pair of trusty snowshoes. Adventure journal. I live in a winter city. It is cold, bitterly cold, freeze your cheeks
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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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Backpacking: Lakeside Cookout
Thirty seconds after I took this photo, I took a second version using the panorama picture mode on my iPhone. That second photo is the desktop wallpaper on my computer monitor as I started writing this post. For whatever one photo is worth: In the summer of 2017 we trekked up the skirt of Mount
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When This is Over I’m Getting on a Plane
Travel Tuesday, and I’m sitting here (just like a good chunk of the world) locked down in my basement during a global pandemic. We (fortunately) banked partial refunds and credit for two sets of flights from twenty-twenty COVID cancellations. This means that last year we didn’t get to go any further than we could drive