Journals

It's my goal to use our Mazda CX-9 as a "camper" for trips, outings, and adventures where it's either difficult to tent or is simply preferable or desirable to have a "camp" vehicle option. I'm not going to ...

A journal of our weekend car camping trips summer 2019. My goal is to get out of the city and camp somewhere at least every other weekend.

Most of our skiing is in the Montreal area. We have a season's pass for mid-week skiing at Bromont, and we aim to ski once a week through the winter as a family. I also love cross-country skiing ...

One of my favorite things about Montreal is all the bike lanes and easy access cycling routes.

This is a journal about the Parcs régionaux MRC Matawinie Sept-Chutes (Sept Chutes Regional Park in the Matawinie "county") It's a mouthful, so let's just call it Sept Chutes, which means Seven Waterfalls. I didn't actually count the ...

A 3-day getaway on our Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. With my hubbie - @hammerhead - we are discovering new hikes within the Atlantic provinces Co-vid bubble. The options are beautiful and many.

Every year in the hiking season from May to October I like to do a new-to-me hike; searching for one with a bonus factor - that might be longer distance, challenging elevation, spectacular location and beauty, special hiking ...

Built between the years 1826 and 1832, the Rideau Canal is a National Historic Site of Canada and an UNESCO World Heritage Site. Humans have been traveling the waterways of the Rideau region for millennia. But the Rideau ...

For our inaugural multi-day canoe camping trip, where we take our canoe on the water and camp along the way, we wanted a fairly easy route that would allow us to get our feet wet, so to speak, ...

Last year four of us did the first half of the Long Trail, starting at the southern terminus and working our way north to Middlebury Gap as the rough half-way point. This year I will be (hopefully) finishing ...