Hiking

Hiking has become a regular activity for us. It might be happening that as 2 get older, our activities are turning from adrenaline to endurance. My friends and I have now done the West Coast Trail twice, once in the summer of 1999, and again in 2015 with our son Keiran. This gives me the excuse I need to go out and buy more gear at regular intervals.

We are not real hikers. I have too many friends who really are real hikers to even think about putting us in the same group. But we do enjoy challenges and being out in the wilderness. We try to do at least one good hike a year.

Although I consider a hike to be a multi-day affair with a big back pack, I am going to include a bunch of our day hikes, and some of the weird ones that are sort of in between. Things are different when you have everything on your back.

Multi-Day Hikes:

• Yoho
  • Yoho 2022
  • Yoho Twin Falls and Yoho Lake 2020
  • Yoho Ice Line and Whale Back 2019
• West Coast Trail
  • West Coast Trail 2013
  • West Coast Trail 1999
• Lake O’Hara
  • Lake O’Hara 2024 (with Stevie)
  • Lake O’Hara 2017 on Google Photos
  • Lake O’Hara 2014 on Flicker
  • Lake O’Hara 2011 on Flickr
  • Lake O’Hara 2006 on Flickr
  • Lake O’Hara 2005 on Flickr
• Mount Robson
  • Mount Robson 2018
  • Mount Robson 2009 (on Flickr)
• Mount Assiniboine
  • Mount Assiniboine 2017 by helicopter
  • Sunshine to Howard Douglas 2005 on Flickr
• Tongariro Crossing 2011 (New Zealand)
• Sunshine Coast 2015: Sometimes you just have to know when to give in. In this case, it was too hot and smoky for us. We bailed after 2 1/2 days, which luckily was just a short slog back to the road, and then another slog back to our vehicles. And Nancy’s Bakery.
  • Day1: Water Taxi and Hiking Sarah Point to Desolation Sound: Sunshine Coast Day1 (GooglePhotos)
  • Day2: Desolation Sound to Manzanita Hut: Sunshine Coast Day2 (GooglePhotos)
  • Day 3: Manzanita Hut to Lund: Sunshine Coast Day3 (GooglePhotos)

Walks and Day-Hikes:

• Banff, Jasper and Yoho (assorted trails)
• Boca de Tomatlan to Las Animas Beach
  • Boca to Animas 2022 (Google Photos)
  • Boca to Animas 2023 (Google Photos)
• Bow Glacier Falls 2023 (Google Photos)
• Bryce Canyon
  • 2010 Bryce Canyon 2010 Big Drive (Google Photos)
  • Bryce Canyon 1995 with CIBADS (Google Photos)
• Emerald Lake to Yoho Lake and Back 2023 (Google Photos)
• South West Coast Path (Cornwall, UK)
• Deseret Peak, Utah – Deseret Peak, Utah
  • Deseret Peak 1995 (old WordPress)
• Great Sand Dunes National Monument – Sand Dunes 1994 on WordPress
• Grand Canyon
  • Grand Canyon 2010 in the fog and rain (GooglePhotos)
  • Grand Canyon 1994
• Grassi Lakes
  • Grassi Lakes 2023 (Google Photos)
  • Grassi Lakes 2021 (Google Photos)
• Red Rock Canyon 2011 (Google Photos)
• Takakkaw Falls to Twin Falls 2023 (Google Photos)
• Yellowstone (assorted trails)
• Yosemite (assorted trails)