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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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