Since coming to Alberta, mainly with the idea of spending more time outside in the wild, I have been putting in the extra effort to go on as many hikes as I can. With the price of gas and the mountains still being at least an hour’s drive away from home, I’ve tried to make …
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey is widely considered a classic in the outdoors, non-fiction genre, and hence I had to read it. It’s actually been quite some time since I last put it down, finishing it last Summer while I was volunteering full-time at the remote Algonquin Wildlife Research Station. There couldn’t have been a …
The Burstall Pass Trail is a hike that I had been looking forward to doing practically all Summer. After doing some digging, asking around to locals and such, I had established in my mind that Burstall Pass was going to be THE trail to shoot alpine wildflowers during the blooming season. I also had established …
I have just recently finished reading “The Indifferent Stars Above” by Daniel James Brown and I feel moved to offer some of my own feelings about this excellent book. Its subject matter covers a number of topics that interest me greatly. That being: History (particularly the age of western colonization), exploration, and survival. The story …
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It’s been a while since I did some backcountry camping, and I still feel the need to justify the hundreds of dollars of gear I’ve accumulated over the last couple of years. This doesn’t mean I love backcountry camping any less, it just means that I really have no excuse for the pathetic lack of …
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What better way to spend Canada Day than to explore a park that distinctly looks nothing like what one might imagine when thinking “Canada”? Horseshoe Canyon is a desert-like delight in the middle of the Canadian prairie. It is considered part of the “Bad Lands” here in Alberta, a canyon that has been carved out …
The weather was relatively warm (as in not freezing), the sun was starting to sink, and I hadn’t really exercised much in the week since I moved to Calgary. What a perfect time to take a stroll in the park and maybe catch a beautiful sunset, this city seems to have a lot of those. …
It has been a while since I last visited Mount Rainier. About 4 years to be exact. But it has left a lasting impression that I’ll hopefully never forget. Rainier feels like the epicenter of a world of alpine beauty in Washington State. In every which way from this spot there seemed to be some …
Arches National Park is one of those parks that I feel everyone knows about or at least has elements that your average person will recognize. Whether it’s from reading Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire or from the massive amounts of images of it that circulate around social media. The latter of which would seriously bother Edward …
I arrived at the Grand Canyon late at night through a brightly moonlit forest to hopefully catch a legendary sunrise in the morning. It was cold, as the massive canyon sits at a surprisingly high altitude and it was nearing the end of November, after all. After a frosty and mostly restless sleep in my …