works of wanderlust

Tag: what a picture is worth

  • Hiking: Mountain Bunkers

    Back in March of this year, 2022, we made yet another long weekend into a family adventure getaway to the mountains. With few plans besides a booked hotel suite and our hiking gear, we landed in the town of Canmore after a four hour spring drive. A year earlier we had zipped off to the

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  • Adventure Runs Season Two

    I may have written earlier this year about how I’ve spent each of the last two summers devising a weekly run outing for my running crew. Each week over about fourteen weeks of summer we would meet at a location I’d disclosed earlier in the day for a six to eight klick run. It could

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  • Glacial Stares

    Sometimes things just click. Sometimes you need to do a hike up the side of a mountain to an interesting place, lay on the bare ground and get the moment just right for things to work out how you want. Describe the best picture you took in 2021. We had booked a week in the

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  • Travel: Fruits, Wines, and a Weekend Half

    Two years ago this past weekend the world was a very different place. The world was different enough that we had no issues hopping into the car, driving for nearly ten hours straight, and wending our way across the prairies, over the rocky mountain passes, and into the verdant Okanagan Valley in nearby British Columbia.

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  • Hiking: Johnston Canyon

    During the summer of 2021 we took a pair of casual family vacations to the mountains. The first and more southern of these was a trip to the proximity of Banff National Park. Four nights in Canmore, Alberta a mountain town just outside of the national park boundary served as the staging point for a

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