Yoho Peak

August 1, 2025. Scrambling to the summit of Yoho National Park’s eponymous peak. I’ve had the chance to do some easy hikes in Yoho with my family, but time and distance have prevented me from doing anything more involved. Luckily, I got invited along on an already-arranged trip to Yoho by my Calgary hiking buddies […]

Newman Peak and Avion Ridge

July 8, 2025. A long, beautiful loop route in Waterton that lends itself well to multi-day backpacking or a big day trip. After my recent adventure in scrambling and route-finding on Mount Richards, I was looking for a day in the mountains that would allow me to just follow a trail and admire the views. […]

Mount Richards

June 19, 2025. Engaging route-finding and scrambling in Waterton Lakes National Park. The defining view greeting hikers when they arrive at Bertha Lake is the imposing rock wall hemming in the far (southern) end of the valley. That wall is the connecting ridge between Mount Richards on the left and Mount Alderson on the right. […]

Mount Langley

October 5, 2024. Climbing the southern-most 14er in the United States. After climbing Mount Whitney, our group decided to rest for a couple of days before tackling the 2nd 14,000-er of our trip: Mount Langely. Although Langley is only about 150m shorter than Whitney, the fact that it isn’t the tallest mountain in the lower […]

Mount Whitney

October 2, 2024. Hiking to the summit of the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States. *Note that because of the varying measurements by my own devices on this trip, the numbers above are the “official” ones. Denali, the tallest mountain in the USA and all of North America, has never been on my radar […]

Lone Pine Lake

October 1, 2024. Pleasant hiking to a beautiful lake in the southern Sierra Nevada. I was lucky enough to be invited along on another of Bhaskar’s adventures to finish off the 2024 hiking season. He managed to get a coveted permit to hike to the summit of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous […]

Lys Ridge

September 21, 2024. A long, scenic ridge walk on the Autumnal Equinox. Lys Ridge is situated between 2 picturesque valleys in Castle Wildland Provincial Park. Grizzly Creek runs in the valley to the west of the ridge and the South Castle River runs in the valley to the east . The two converge around the […]

Mount Siyeh

July 27, 2024. Scrambling to the summit of a “10,000-er” along Glacier National Park’s Going-to-the-Sun Road. The last outing of my late July trip to Glacier was to bag the peak of Mount Siyeh. This mountain sits alongside the Siyeh Bend section of Going-to-the-Sun Road. It is apparently the easiest 10,000-er to climb in the […]

Ptarmigan Tunnel & Iceberg Lake

July 25, 2024. A long day hike tagging two picturesque objectives in Glacier National Park. I joined up with a group from Calgary for a mid-summer excursion to Glacier National Park in Montana. My only prior hike in the park was scrambling up Ninastako (Chief Mountain) last year, so I was in the pleasant situation […]

Rummel Lake & Rummel Pass

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 […]