For years I’d seen pictures of the winter hike that ends at the Green Monster – a beautiful frozen, green icefall also known as Cascade Falls in Kananaskis Country. My husband and I have hiked along the Evan-Thomas Creek a couple of times in winter but had always stopped where the trail narrows in the …
The 45 km out and back hike to the Cape Scott Lighthouse at the north-western tip of Vancouver Island via the Cape Scott Trail isn’t difficult per se – at least when it’s dry. But this part of the world is well-known for its multi-day torrential downpours. All that rain and mud significantly raises the …
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Great Basin National Park, located in eastern Nevada, about a 4.5-hour drive north of Las Vegas, is well off the beaten path. As one of the least visited national parks in the United States, you can look forward to a pristine wilderness experience with ancient bristlecone pine forests, an awe-inspiring mountain landscape, exceptionally dark skies …
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In its simplest form The Island Walk in Prince Edward Island (PEI) is a 700-kilometre loop around the province that was inspired the by the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Walking at a pace of 20 – 25 km per day allows hikers to complete the entire route in about a month. Most people who …
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The Columbia and Western rail trail spans an impressive 162 kilometres between Midway and Castlegar in southern British Columbia, following the path of the abandoned Canadian Pacific Boundary Subdivision line. This blog showcases the 50 km section of the Columbia and Western Rail trail you can access just off the Paulson Summit on Highway 3 …
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