On September 9, @Albertaparks tweeted that Highway 40 was open at the winter gates, allowing access to the summit of Highwood Pass. Normally, these gates are open from June 15 to November 30 each year. Alberta Parks, highway crews and volunteers have been working hard to re-open all of Highway 40 and Kananaskis Country since …
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I'm a little slow to get this post put together. A lot of time this past week got caught up in the start of the new school year, but I finally have some time to share our most recent trip to the Highwood Pass area in Kananasiks Country. We hiked Grizzly Ridge on August 10 …
Today we invited another family to join us on one of our all-time favourite hikes. We've done this hike pretty much every year for the past 8 years, ever since we started hiking when our youngest son was 3 1/2 years old. Arethusa Cirque is not an "official" hike; the trail is not maintained, there …
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One of our favourite hiking destinations is the Highwood Pass area in Kananaskis Country. Located in the heart of Peter Lougheed Provincial Park, one of the jewels of the approximately 4,200 square km that make up Kananaskis Country, Highwood pass is the highest paved road in Canada, topping out at 2230 m. It's closed from …
We didn't get much hiking in this year: cold, wet weather in the late spring combined with back problems for Mr. GeoK and achilles tendonitis for Mrs. GeoK meant we enjoyed less than a handful of hikes over the 2010 season. So when the grade 6 Outdoor Education students put out a call for parent …