A hiking blog.
July 9, 2024. Straightforward but scenic scrambling to a summit overlooking the Carthew-Alderson trail. Mount Alderson is one of the Waterton scrambles described in Kane’s Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies. The ascent route is very obvious when hiking on the Carthew-Alderson trail from Cameron Lake down to the Waterton townsite. From the hiking trail the […]
Read More Mount AldersonJuly 4, 2024. Summertime hiking in springtime conditions in Kokanee Glacier Park. Following our first night at the Kokanee Glacier Cabin we set out bright and early for Sapphire Lakes. A well-established trail leads to the pair of lakes which sit between Lemon Pass and Glory Basin. The reputed beauty of the area was reason […]
Read More Sapphire Lakes & Tanal LakeJuly 3, 2024. A trek into the BC wilderness to a luxurious backcountry cabin. In 2022 I had a hiking trip planned out for Kokanee Glacier park that ultimately fell through due to the huge Briggs Creek wildfire burning in the area. Luckily, this year I was invited along on a group trip to the […]
Read More Kokanee Glacier Cabin, Slocan Chief Cabin & Helen Deane LakeMay 28, 2024. A day spent hiking the interconnected trails of the Bryce Amphitheater in Bryce Canyon National Park. Bryce Canyon National Park is situated amongst the many National Parks, National Forests, and National Monuments in the south of Utah. Nearby Zion National Park is apparently a bigger draw for tourists, but Bryce is justifiably […]
Read More Bryce Canyon AmphitheaterMay 27, 2024. Hiking the most spectacular trail in Utah’s Zion National Park. After 3 days of hiking in Grand Canyon, Bhaskar and I departed Arizona and drove north to Utah. On a very hot Memorial Day afternoon we arrived in a predictably crowded Zion National Park. Bhaskar had managed to win a lottery for […]
Read More Angels LandingMay 26, 2024. Following in the footsteps of 19th century copper miners on one of Grand Canyon’s more rugged trails. To round out our first trip to Grand Canyon, we decided to visit Horseshoe Mesa via the Grandview Trail. In contrast to Bright Angel Trail and North/South Kaibab Trails, Grandview is rougher and narrower with […]
Read More Grand Canyon: Grandview Trail to Horseshoe MesaMay 25, 2024. A sunset hike to spectacular viewpoints on the South Kaibab Trail. The day after our successful rim-to-rim crossing of Grand Canyon we spent most of our day getting back to our car on the North Rim and driving it back to the South Rim. We left at 8AM on a shuttle for […]
Read More Grand Canyon: South Kaibab Trail to O’Neill ButteMay 24, 2024. A one-day crossing of one of the 7 Natural Wonders of the World. Something like 5 million people visit Grand Canyon every year, and if they set out along one of the trails descending from the canyon’s rim, they’ll soon come across one of these signs. The signs are good advice, but […]
Read More Grand Canyon: Rim to Rim – North Kaibab to Bright AngelSeptember 16, 2023. A beautiful day on Waterton’s most famous trail. Sooner or later, this blog was going to have a Crypt Lake post. I’ve hiked the Crypt Lake trail twice in the past, most recently just before I started writing this blog. The hike is a true gem, though, and I was bound to […]
Read More Crypt LakeAugust 5, 2023. A return to Mount Haig to deal with the “unfinished business” of Gravenstafel Ridge. Almost exactly 4 years ago I climbed Mount Haig. That day I decided to return to my car by descending down to Haig Lake and following the trails out. For whatever reason I didn’t feel like ascending adjacent […]
Read More Mount Haig and Gravenstafel Ridge
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