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 […]

Elbow Lake & Rae Glacier

July 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 […]

Mount Alderson

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 […]

Sapphire Lakes & Tanal Lake

July 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 […]

Kokanee Glacier Cabin, Slocan Chief Cabin & Helen Deane Lake

July 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 […]

Crypt Lake

September 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 […]