Posts Tagged ‘Hiking’

Greetings from Denali!

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

A short note from Denali. We’re having fun, the weather’s been fantastic the whole trip, and we’ve seen just about every wild animal Alaska has to offer (whales, porpoises, moose, caribu, lots of eagles and falcons, …) and even a close encounter with a grizzly at our camp! We haven’t found any gold yet though… [...]

Three days on Vancouver Island

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Last week we went to Vancouver Island for three days with my mother.  We had great weather the whole time, and I think made the most of the short time we had. We had to get up pretty early to catch the 08:30 ferry across from Horseshoe bay to Nanaimo, then go collect the car [...]

English Bay and Grouse Mountain

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Last Thursday and Friday we had lovely weather, and Chrissi had her two days off – we had a nice time of it!  On Thursday we went down to the beach just below Burrard bridge, had a burger at a promenade vendor, sat in the sand and took photos for my film project (more on [...]

Rained out of Big White

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Easter weekend we went up to Big White (about 400km East of Vancouver) with Giom and Nadia.  It was a nice weekend, but we didn’t have so much luck with the weather…  Saturday we went on the piste, but the weather was only half ok – some snow and hail, and some clear spells between.  [...]