Last weekend, we enjoyed a couple of relaxing days (mostly) in Canmore, with a brief (and unsuccessful) trip into Banff National Park in search of geocaches placed for Snow Days 2013. Just today, the six geocaches were published on geocaching.com, and it's comforting to see from other DNF (did not find) logs that we aren't …
I was in Banff for a couple of days at the start of the month, for a conference with the eyebrow-raising title "It's Time for a Student Health Revolution." After a full day of speakers and workshops highlighting the somewhat terrifying statistics around children's obesity rates, excessive consumption of pop and other sugary drinks, with …
Taking advantage of bargain end-of-season pricing for seats on the shuttle bus, we caught the Saturday morning 9 o'clock ride to Sunshine Meadows. Earlier this summer, we hiked from Sunshine Meadows to Healy Pass and in 2009 we hiked to Citadel Pass. This time out, we opted to walk the approx. 12 km Sunshine Meadows …
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Like thousands of other Calgarians, we headed west for the August long weekend. We knew the trails would be pretty crowded, so we spent a bit of time last week planning for this weekend's hike. Our criteria: in Banff National Park, a longer hike (at least 15 km) which would deter most casual hikers, somewhere we …
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Neil Jennings was one of the guests on alberta@noon (CBC Radio) last Tuesday. Fly fisherman, photographer and author of 7 books, Mr. Jennings is an expert on wildflowers. Since he was taking calls and emails from listeners, Mrs. GeoK dashed off a quick email with two wildflowers she'd photographed earlier in July but hadn't been …
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