Hiking in Nova Scotia’s Wentworth Valley

Each autumn, Wentworth Valley beckons Vilis and me to hike hills cloaked with maples, beeches, birches, and scattered conifers, the deciduous trees’ leaves painting the landscape with the flamin...

Canoeing Nova Scotia’s Waugh River

Spurred on by our hiking adventure yesterday and loathe to devote this gloriously warm Thanksgiving Day to the mundane, Vilis and I hoisted a Grumman canoe atop our Ranger, dropped it off on the bank ...

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...

Maligne Canyon and Old Fort Point, Jasper National Park, Alberta

In steady rain, Vilis and I explored Maligne Canyon trails a few kilometres from Jasper this morning, the colours of stunted vegetation and spilling river enhanced by the overcast sky and wet rock sur...