A little after 8 o'clock this past Friday morning, we headed west towards Kananaskis Country for our second hike of the year. After considerable debate around the supper table the night before, we decided to make a second attempt at Guinn's Pass. Our first attempt, exactly one year + one day ago, was aborted on …
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First Hike of 2010 – Arethusa Cirque
It's hard to accept that it was July 22 before we finally made it out for our first hike of the 2010 season. It's easy to make excuses: bad back, lousy weather, other commitments, holidays. But the reality is that when we took that first breath of clean mountain air, we realized how much we …
Grizzly Ridge Hike (Sept 28)
Monday morning, with the kids heading off to school, we headed out to the Highwood Pass day use area to hike up to Grizzly Ridge in search of GC1VEY8 - Just East of the Continental Divide, published back on September 5, with the First to Find honours still up for grabs. We were in the …
Arethusa Adventure (Aug 30)
Sunday was a beautiful late summer day, perfect for leading two other (fairly new to geocaching) families along the 5 km loop at Arethusa Cirque in the Highwood Pass area of Kananaskis Country. With six adults and seven youngsters between the ages of 4 and 13 in the group, there was a very broad range …
Cox Hill (Aug 2)
Yesterday's weather forecast called for sunshine and a high of 30 C in the mountain parks today, so we studied our trail maps carefully, looking for a hike we hadn't done before and where we could be at the trail head by 8:30 so we could beat the heat! After some deliberation, we decided on …