After several years of tossing around the idea we finally decided to head out on a 12-day tenting adventure down the Oregon Coast. We packed up the truck and pushed south to Florence and started our tour from South to North. Everyone told us September was the best month to go but to expect rain and […]
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The day of the eclipse as well as Shannon’s birthday. Pinnacle lake is a great day trip, but we wanted to get up on top of the mountains to watch the eclipse and explore more than what daylight had in store for us. This time we brought along our tent to stay the night. The […]
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Silver Spray cabin is a 7 km, 1016 meter elevation gain hike located in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park. This is a grueling hike through a forest ravished by fire many years ago. This hike goes up and up and up. You keep looking for the end where the cabin could be and it never seems […]
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We have always wanted to backpack hike in the East Kootenays. We started our stay 22 km on gravel roads in Whiteswan Lake Provincial Park at Alces Lake Campground; a very nice drive in campground with lovely views and right on the lake. The water was even warm enough to swim. That evening we heading the 4.5km back […]
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This was a full day, 26 km with a bonus 4 km section through Yoho National Park with Class 2, 3, and 4 rapids down the Kicking Horse River with Alpine Rafting Company with a riverside BBQ lunch. We chose this company from all the rest primarily because the website said there was free camping included. […]
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A 2 night backpacking trip in the sub alpine to Eva and Jade lake. We planned on staying a night at each of the lakes but the Rangers in the entry booth told us there was too much snow at Jade Lake to camp, so we enjoyed both nights at Eva Lake instead. We parked in an […]
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