Friends, family and physiotherapists have repeatedly recommended that we hike or snowshoe to Taylor Lake. We finally listened! To be honest, trail conditions also factored into our decision to hike to one of the most accessible hanging valley lakes between Banff and Lake Louise. The posted distance of 12.6 km and 585 m elevation gain …
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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Although we were out on our mountain bikes several times this week (including a ride to the Canmore Nordic Centre, where we easily completed the green loop), it's been almost a week since our last hike. Since it's a long weekend here in Alberta, we anticipated many of the premier hiking trails in the Banff …
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 …
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 …