Hiking Gully Lake Wilderness Area, Nova Scotia

Like royalty with the world at our feet, Vilis and I hiked for two hours through Nova Scotian hardwood forest this afternoon. We climbed hills, walked ridges, slopped through a meadow flooded as a res...

From Banff to Jasper, Alberta

Beneath overcast skies, Vilis and I headed west and then north from Banff, our destination the town of Jasper in Jasper National Park, another of Canada’s iconic Rocky Mountain national parks. E...

Hiking More Banff Trails, Alberta

Brilliant morning sunshine glared off snow-smeared mountains and pale rock as I hiked up Tunnel Mountain, a 1692-metre peak jutting upward between the Bow River and TransCanada Highway, with the towns...