by Jeremy | Mar 23, 2015 | Snow Sports, Trips
Towards the end of March 2015, I saddled up with Anthony for a trip to the top of Mount Bowman, just outside the boundary of Marble Range Provincial Park. I had seen this peak from nearby Wild Horse Ridge during an overnight backpack trip as detailed in this post and...
by Jeremy | Mar 14, 2015 | Backpacking, Trips
The lower Stein Valley trail in the Stein Valley Nlaka’pamux Heritage Park has been one of our go-to trails for years for shoulder season backpack trips. Its low elevation and mild climate means that you can access the trail for most, if not all, of the year. In fact,...
by Jeremy | Jan 25, 2015 | Snow Sports, Trips
Over the years, we’ve made a couple of trips to Ross Moore Lake in our vehicles but we hadn’t actually made it to the cabin. Most anyone can get to the forest service site on the south end of the lake in just about any vehicle, but to proceed beyond that,...
by Jeremy | Jan 23, 2015 | Backpacking, Trips
While we can say with confidence that most of our trips work out as expected, there have been some that did not work out quite as planned. One such trip was our backpacking experience on the Rockwall Trail in Kootenay National Park in 2012. It started with bad spring...
by Jeremy | Dec 20, 2014 | Backpacking, Trips
In September 2014, we decided to backpack the Berg Lake Trail in Mount Robson Provincial park. I had been up that way once before in 2010 as detailed in this post but this was Raegan’s first time. On the previous trip, Kirk and I had then planned for three days...