Category: Hiking
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Six Appeal
All photos taken on September 20, 2021. Walking back from the Red Chairs, we opted to take Trail 6 back, rather than hike uphill on the Water Tower Trail. We had often shied away from this trail, as it is also used by horses, with the double hazards of lumpy horse exhaust and humps and…
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Same Old, Same Old
All photos taken on September 20, 2025. In keeping with the Reverse Course post, we opted to do the Water Tower hike as our second hike of the day. As many will recall, we did Water Tower first back on September 16, 2025. No need to reprise the commentary, but here is the hike of…
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Reverse Course
All photos taken on September 20, 2025. Today was Saturday and we had no desire to be in with the crowds in Jasper town or on the more popular trails. As such, we were going to mostly stay put on the nearby trails and drive sparingly. The hikes from our first day came to mind,…
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NZ – Sweet As – Wet and Wild
All photos taken on October 28, 2025. The weather in Thames today was forecast to be a bit unpredictable. Cloudy with showers, at times heavy, followed by sunshine and cloud mix, followed again by showers, at times heavy, with gusty winds. With this in mind, we set off after breakfast to do a bit of…
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NZ – Sweet As – Really Big Trees
All photos taken on October 27, 2025. At the end of the main trail, there was a platform to sit and ponder life, before going onward to the Kauri grove. We chatted with some locals who hike the trail regularly, before moving on…up. Agathis australis, commonly known as kauri, is a species of coniferous tree in the family Araucariaceae,…
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NZ – Sweet As – Its a Jungle Out There
All photos taken on October 27, 2025. Now, it might seem counter-intuitive to undertake a long hike after a long overnight flight, but the time difference between Vancouver and NZ on our arrival date was only 4 hours, even though NZ was already one day ahead. We had done this hike in 2014 and really…
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Lakes of the Ladies
All photos taken on September 19, 2025. Initially, we thought we might like to hike back up the Bald Hills Trail, which we tried to hike in February, but we just weren’t feeling it. Scrolling through the Parks Canada site for day hikes, I stumbled on this one. It was a hike to Lorraine and…
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NZ – Sweet As – A Real Departure?
All photos taken on October 25, 2025. A faint sunrise greeted us over B.C. Place, when we opened the blinds this morning. Today was going to be a long day of waiting, interspersed with short periods of intense activity. Couple that with hotel checkout at 11 AM and a flight time of 7:30 PM, we…
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NZ – Sweet As – In a Holding Pattern
All photos taken on October 24, 2025. Against our better judgement, we tried breakfast in the hotel breakfast room. While the place was not crowded, the breakfast quality was underwhelming, as so many hotel breakfast bars are. The day was supposed to be very wet, so we opted for a short walk toward False Creek,…
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On the Up and Up
All photos taken on September 18, 2025. Well, our new friends had told us that the hike we were looking for was the only left hand exit past the picnic area, so it did not take us long to find the place. But, it was not the promised short hike. It, in fact was a…
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