A hiking blog.
July 14, 2024. A visit to a picturesque lake in K-country with an extension (most of the way) to a high mountain pass. A short distance north of the perpetually busy Chester Lake trail in Kananaskis is the Rummel Lake trail. It is featured in both Gillean Dafferin’s Kananaskis Country Trail Guide Vol 1 as […]
Read More Rummel Lake & Rummel PassJuly 13, 2024. An enjoyable journey to a popular lake and diminutive glacier in K-country. Elbow Lake is a picturesque and easily accessed lake in Kananaskis Country. There’s a backcountry campground on its shore and it’s also the jumping-off point for some longer hikes. Put all that together, and you have a popular and crowded […]
Read More Elbow Lake & Rae GlacierJuly 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 Angel
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