Spring in the Rockies. Temperatures are warming, the sun is shining, ephemerals are blooming, and bear cubs are emerging with their moms from a long winter snooze. Everything around you screams, ‘get out and go for a hike!’ That is, … Read More
It’s hard to pick a favorite season here in the Canadian Rockies. In spring, the skies get bluer, the days longer and ephemerals like orchids and glacier lilies make their fleeting appearance. In summer, everything’s lush, colorful wildflowers blanket the … Read More
What’s more fleeting than larch season? Wild ice season. This magical, early-winter window typically lasts just days and requires the perfect combination of conditions: a few days of very cold temperatures, little wind, and no snow. A bitter cold snap … Read More
Choose your adventure… Whether you’re looking for a short outing or full-day on the trail, we’re here to help you find it. The list of trails covers just about everything we’ve hiked during our travels – roughly 150 trails from … Read More
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 favorite places. We’ve spent about twelve months in total hiking here, and explored trails across … Read More
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
