Jul 25, 20193 minSection C - Day 6: Sun & BeautyDay 6 of section C brought the most welcome thing I could imagine - the beginning of three days in a row of uninterrupted sun! I'd campe...
Jul 24, 20193 minSection C - Day 5: Lessons of Tamarack. I leave Banff after my unplanned snow-day as early as I can tear myself away from the cotton sheets and hot running water (read: way late...
Jul 24, 20194 minSection C - Day 4: And Then It Snowed.Morning 4 of section C, brings some weak sunlight filtering through the rain, but not enough to dry off my gear. Everything is damp, and ...
Jul 24, 20193 minSection C - Day 3: And More RainOn Wednesday, I wake early. I have made my coffee and taken down my tent before the others begin to stir and I set out again on this easy...
Jul 24, 20191 minSection C - Day 2: RevisitingThe next day takes me through more beautiful scenery, and more rain. The day begins with a steep 450 metre climb up a brushed-over barely...
Jul 24, 20193 minSection C - Day 1: RainI prepare a cardboard sign to hitch back to the trailhead and walk to the edge of town. Car after expensive rental car pass me without s...
Jul 24, 20192 minRest Days in Banff between sections B and CMy first morning in Banff, I awake early on hiker time, and limp out onto the main street while the town still sleeps. The streets are ee...
Jul 13, 20194 minSection B - Day 7: Out of the WildernessKM Hiked: 22. Territory: Blackfoot/NiitsItapi, Stoney, Tsuu T'ina, Ktunaxa. It rains all night, and when I wake it is clear and bright, w...
Jul 13, 20193 minSection B - Day 6: Presence & Deep TimeKM Hiked: 28. Territory: Blackfoot/NiitsItapi, Stoney, Tsuu T'ina, Ktunaxa. The next morning, I sleep well through my alarm and am packi...
Jul 13, 20192 minSection B - Day 5: IsolationKM Hiked: 25. Territory: Blackfoot/NiitsItapi, Stoney, Tsuu T'ina, Ktunaxa. The next day, the reality of having only seen humans for 5 m...
Jul 13, 20192 minSection B - Day 4: Maybe it's going to be OK?KM Hiked: 24. Territory: Blackfoot/NiitsItapi, Stoney, Tsuu T'ina, Ktunaxa. I wake up feeling miraculously better. It doesn't seem possi...
Jul 13, 20193 minSection B - Day 3: Tornado Saddle. KM Hiked: 22. Territory: Blackfoot/NiitsItapi, Stoney, Tsuu T'ina, Ktunaxa. I wake up after my two-day hellish road walk unreasonably ex...
Jul 6, 20192 minSection B - Days 1 & 2: A Painful BlurKM Hiked: 30. Territory: Blackfoot/NiitsItapi, Stoney, Tsuu T'ina, Ktunaxa. The first two days of Section B are a blur to me. I left Col...
Jul 5, 20192 minSection A - Day 4: The Wind0 Km hiked. Territory: Blackfoot/Niitsitapi, Ktunaxa I wake to the sound of flapping tent fabric, and struggle to get going in the free...
Jul 5, 20192 minSection A - Day 3: Up Yarrow Creek15 Km Hiked. Territory: Blackfoot/Niitsitapi, Ktunaxa Day 3 takes me up and over a ridge on an arrow-straight cutline overgrown with wi...
Jul 4, 20193 minSection A - Day 2: Thunder in the foothills 26.5 Km Hiked. Territory: Blackfoot/Niitsitapi, Ktunaxa I awake before my alarm to the sound of thunder in the distance. I'm warm and d...
Jul 4, 20192 minSection A - Day 1: A Short Walk to the Border6 Km Hiked. Territory: Blackfoot/Niitsitapi, Ktunaxa My mom and I arrive in Waterton townsite in the evening. A mountaineer in the 70's...
Jul 4, 20192 minGDT Section A - The Real Deal. When I did my first section of the Great Divide Trail 3 years ago, I met my first thru-hikers. They strode past me carrying impossibly sm...
Jun 19, 20193 minGDT Prep (is killing me)Holy crap I'm hitting the trail in a week and WOAH I really underestimated the sheer amount of work required to prepare for a hike like t...
Jun 12, 20195 minThru-Hiking the Great Divide Trail & Some Queer FeelingsThis summer, I'm attempting a thru-hike of the Great Divide Trail. It's an 1130 km hike following the continental divide of the Canadian ...
