Seoraksan

  Where were you at 3 am on Saturday? I was stumbling off a bus into the night under a blanket of stars. My friends and I had hopped on board four hours earlier to join a Seoul Hiking Group trip to Seoraksan National Park. […]

Munhaksan

  I’ve made some great friends in Incheon who’ve gone out of their way to show me around, and their tours have not skimped on the nightlife. Korean culture (and English-teacher-abroad culture, for that matter) is very social. There are some local beers on tap everywhere you […]

Lost in Lynn Valley

“We’re pretty sure the bridge is actually this way.” So we were warned by the first three hikers we passed in Lynn Canyon Park. We’d ventured up to the north shore, via sky train, ferry, and bus, to experience some of the hiking that Vancouver […]

Friends in high places

For our last day hiking in Whistler we chose the Decker Loop on Backcomb Mountain. It was less of a challenge than our jaunt on the High Note Trail, but in place of physical exertion it offered us stunning vistas and a friendly cast of […]

Hitting the High Note

The High Note Trail is an intermediate loop of Whistler Mountain. The trail map says to give yourself 4 hours to complete it, but with detours and lookouts (and the odd wrong turn) Terra and I stretched it into a full day hike. The route […]

Hiking Col de la Lune

  When I told my friend Emma that I was down to my last two weeks in Méribel, she asked if I had any items left to cross off my Alps ‘bucket list’. One thing that came to mind was hiking – I didn’t want […]

The Gibbon Experience

The Gibbon Experience is part heart-pumping adventure, part awe-inspiring nature encounter, and part feel-good conservation program. The group has built tree houses deep in Nam Kan National Park and their guides will lead you on a multi-day trek up mountain paths and across peak-to-peak zip-lines […]

Frontenac Provincial Park, Ontario

Alex, Alie and I had been craving a hiking trip for a while, so last weekend we visited Frontenac Provincial Park in Sydenham, Ontario (about 45 minutes north of Kingston). FPP did not disappoint! You can check it out at http://www.frontenacpark.ca/. The views were stunning and […]