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 …
We've made reservations to do the guided hike to the Burgess Shales in July. It's a 20 km (return) hike, with more than 800 meters elevation gain, so we definitely need to get in some conditioning hikes before we go. Since the GeoKids had a day off school today and the weather forecast looked pretty …
With the GeoKids in school for the day on Friday, Mr. & Mrs. GeoK set out to hike to the site of the old fire look out on Forgetmenot Mountain. We had planned to go up this way last spring, but the Big Elbow was flowing so fast and so high that we were forced …