Saturday we headed back out to Highwood Pass, hoping that a few more cold nights triggered the larches to turn yellow; for Mr. GeoK, this was the third trip in 9 days, as he was determined to get some excellent fall photos this year… We were in luck!! As we drove past the turn off …
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Hiking Kananaskis – Mount Lipsett
We tried to hike Mount Lipsett in late August, but we failed to read the hike description in detail before heading out to K-country and ended up parking in the wrong area, couldn't find the trailhead and then got rained out before we got reorganized to try from the proper parking area. Since we've never …
Hiking Kananaskis Country – The best laid plans….
The GeoKids started a four day weekend on Friday, August 29th, so we packed up and headed to K-country to hike up Mt. Lipsett. Between our failure to find the trailhead (despite a half hour of fruitless searching) and the (at times) persistent rain, we ended up abandonning our hiking plans in favour of a …
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Hiking Kananaskis – Chester Lake
We hoped to get over to Chester Lake last Sunday, but an unexpected blizzard forced us to turn back and retrace our steps through the Headwall Lakes valley. Today we decided to hike a little beyond Chester Lake in order to do some cache maintenance prompted by a recent log on our Fav. Hike #3 - …
Hiking Kananaskis – Forgetmenot Mountain
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 …