Camping trips

Under a blanket of forest fire smoke, we canoed to the back of Maligne Lake, stopping to spend a night at the Fisherman’s Bay and Coronet Creek campgrounds. With an early morning pit spot at the one and only Spirit Island.

We spent our last weekend of the summer canoeing 105 km from Nordegg to Rocky Mountain House. This would become leg one of a multi-trip endeavour to canoe a large stretch of the North Saskatchewan River.

The campground was full, so we opted to try the lodge instead, and spoiler alert, it saved us! We hiked the Skyline Trail from the Maligne Lake trailhead to Maligne Canyon in two days, stopping overnight at the Shovel Pass Lodge.

A quiet, relaxing girls' weekend in the backcountry, with a midnight animal encounter.

Beach camping, blisters, bioluminescent plankton, and other adventures from a week hiking up the coast of Vancouver Island.

Celebrating Canada Day in the most Canadian place we could get to. This was my first ever backcountry hike, and we set the bar high.