Turner Valley, Alberta

Backcountry shelters span austere to luxury.  On the luxury end of the spectrum is CMH and to a far lesser degree Assiniboine Lodge.  I've enjoyed heli-hiking at both, most recently at Assiniboine Lodge.  To get there is quite easy...fly to Calgary (YYC) in Alberta.  The Assiniboine Lodge straddl...

Kananaskis Country is actually a conglomerate of 11 different Provincial Parks within Alberta and actually a shorter drive from Calgary than to Banff! If you haven't had Kananaskis on your radar before, I hope these 5 reasons put the wheels in motion to extend your Canadian vacation and to explor...

I crossed the empty interchange with Toronto’s orange skyline ahead of me. “I’ll see you tomorrow, then,” I said. It had been six months since my twin sister and I parted ways in southeastern British Columbia. I’d returned to Algonquin Park in Ontario; she had headed to Kananaskis Country. After ...