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Random Backcountry Camping – A guide for a quick get away
While many of of the adventures we describe are multi-night trips requiring months of research, planning and permits. One thing we’ve experimented with this summer is random camping and used it to take advantage of a couple of free Friday…
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Easier than you think – Keeping your hiking legs in shape
The spring shoulder season can be a challenging time in the mountains. When the Elf lived in Vancouver he would typically have been camping several times before late April rolled around. The Rockies near Calgary are different. It may surprise…
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Oops I forgot my sleeping pad
If you’ve read our Grand Teton trail report (part 1 and part 2) you’ll have read that my much beloved Thermarest Neoair sleeping pad is sitting somewhere in the shade by the trail near the Alaska Basin Lakes. For me, this was the middle of…
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Teton Crest Trail – Part 2
Read part 1 here Day 3 – Alaska Basin to South Fork Cascade Creek We awoke to a clear morning, while most of the smoke had cleared out the previous afternoon, it was nice to see that it hadn’t returned. After a quick breakfast we hit the trail…
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Backpacking with the Cubs
As a Cub Leader (Scouter). One of the things I really wanted to do this year was introduce a few the Cubs in my pack to Backpacking. At first I wasn’t sure how the youth, ages 8-10, would do. While my kids have been backpacking since they…
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