About

A Little About Us:

We are a young family from Vancouver, BC who enjoy the outdoors. When we aren’t playing board games, we are either riding our bikes around town either to commute or even just around the seawall, or we are doing something related to hiking. On the weekends we go for day hikes and in our evenings we like to plan for upcoming multiday trips. And, well, we also work in between all that.

Kyle

Kyle has been backpacking since he went on his first terrifyingly unprepared trip in university. Since then he became much more prepared and has ramped up his trips in both length, duration and difficulty. After bringing Natasha on her first backpacking trip, the two have spent as much time as possible together in the outdoors.

Toothless

Toothless has spent his entire life in the outdoors. His first hike was when he was 3 weeks old where his parents took him hiking in the snow. He likes to crawl, stand, climb and dance. Toothless finished a GDT thru hike when he was 10 months old (he started when he was 8 months old). He has been on numerous backpacking trips, has been on a bike since he was 1 year old (run bike) and pedalling since he was 2 years old.

Toothless also likes taking lessons for swimming, skiing and rock climbing.

Snowshoeing in Vancouver

Natasha

Natasha pushes Kyle to go on longer, more intense trips in the outdoors. After their first backpacking trip together, she quickly escalated their trip planning with a PCT section hike then a JMT thru hike. Before deciding to hike the GDT together, Natasha took Kyle on the Rockwall Trail and convinced him this was a good representation of the GDT. Well, we know now that it isn’t, but that’s the past and now the two of them spend most of their summers together in the Canadian Rockies.

Lil’ Flier

Lil’ Flier is the newest addition to our family. She has spent most of her life so far sleeping but she’s growing quickly! She likes napping in the carrier, going in the bike for rides, napping in the running stroller while mom or dad go for a run, eating anything she can hold with her hands, some tummy time, but most of all – trying to stand on things.

Since she can’t do it on her own yet, we give her a hand.

About the Site:

When planning some of our hikes we found that some of the information we wanted to find just wasn’t accessible. So we decided to make the information we compile for ourselves also available to others.

As time goes on, and our trips get longer, we continue to post on this website to make our trip reports, routes, or other observations and experiences accessible to other.

Now that our family has grown, we will continue to post about our experiences and trips – but the pace and intensity of some of our adventures will be changing to accommodate our youngest family members.

Now we like to post when we have time to put that information out there, for free, so people can see how we have solved problems to get our family outdoors. We don’t subscribe to a mindset that kids are fragile and should stay at home – as a family we feel enriched and connected when we are together having experiences in the outdoors. This is about that – and helping other people figure out how they can also have these experiences.