Canada Hikes & Scrambles
Start exploring… Over our years of travel, we have hiked extensively across six continents and New Zealand. However, the Canadian Rockies remains one of our…
Start exploring… Over our years of travel, we have hiked extensively across six continents and New Zealand. However, the Canadian Rockies remains one of our…
Mount Burke is a lesser-known front-range peak that sits just south of Kananaskis off Highway 940. Standing at 8,340’ (2540 m), it’s the second highest mountain in the Livingstone Range, the easternmost subrange of the Canadian Rockies. Mount Burke is … Read More
Much like Ha Ling Peak, Sulphur Mountain is a summit that had never been on our radar. Home of the Banff Gondola and crowned with a wooden boardwalk and large summit station, the touristed highpoint sees hundreds, if not thousands, … Read More
Aside from the Three Sisters, Ha Ling Peak is probably Camore’s most iconic landmark. A subpeak of larger Mount Lawrence Grassi, a multipeaked massif that towers more than 1,000 meters above the bustling mountain town, Ha Ling’s sheer north face … Read More
Rising to 3394 meters (11,135 feet), Mount Hector is one of the tallest and most recognizable peaks along Banff’s Icefields Parkway. Immediately north of Hector stands Mount Adromache, less familiar and much more modest in stature. In 1948, the Alpine … Read More
When winter weather rolls into the Rockies, the quest for smaller objectives begins. The day before our three-night getaway at Mount Engadine Lodge, an early-season snowstorm nailed Kananaskis. With some summit forecasts calling for upwards of 30 centimeters (nearly a … Read More
After a wonderful stay at Mount Engadine Lodge in 2022, we were excited to have planned a return visit this fall. Our first getaway was over the first weekend in October. We decided to take advantage of the lodge’s low-season … Read More
The Skoki area is undoubtedly one of our favorite parts of Banff National Park, and one we’ve found ourselves habitually returning to. A day trip out here doesn’t come easy, however. Pretty much any journey out to this scenic swath … Read More
Sitting about 20 km north of Lake Louise along the Icefields Parkway, Little Hector is an outlying summit of 11,135-foot (3394 m) Mount Hector. One of the fifty-four 11,000-footers in the Canadian Rockies, the peak was named in honor of … Read More
At the start of our six-month stay in Golden in 2022, I told Stephan that hiking the Lake O’Hara Alpine Circuit was on my must-do list. I followed that up by informing him that visiting the area would also require … Read More