In 24 hours we leave our comfortable, tiny apartment in East Vancouver and start our two month long trip on the GDT. I'm now officially on leave from work, Natasha has resigned, we have all of our resupply packages sorted out and we have our housesitter settled into our home. This is very much going … Continue reading GDT: 24 hour Count Down Until the Journey to Waterton
Author: kyle
Gear Mini Review: ZPacks ArcHaul
I feel like I've been through lots of packs, but on reflection I think I've gotten a lot of use out of them. Previous Packs I started with a MEC pack; I believe it was a 60 L Cragalot back in 2008. I was a student. The pack was on sale (cheap), available at MEC, … Continue reading Gear Mini Review: ZPacks ArcHaul
GDT Food and Meal Planning
We have finally finalized our meal plans (as much as we can anyways), so I can stop teasing with posts about us buying food and give more details on what we actually plan on eating. Calories and Nutrition Natasha and I don't need a lot of calories hiking usually. We have planned for 3600 calories … Continue reading GDT Food and Meal Planning
GDT Food Haul + Long Weekend Food Shopping
We are heading out this weekend to go hiking for a few days. Since we have all of our food earmarked for the GDT, we needed to pick up food. We are using the weekend to test out some new recipes. Some items are just for the weekend, but we bought extra for the GDT … Continue reading GDT Food Haul + Long Weekend Food Shopping
Weekly GDT food inventory haul
We made off a bit better than last weekend.. 88 Snickers bars 60 Hershey's almond bars Various baby food pouches All either on sale or for the best deal we can find. We are learning! Combine Superstore flyer sales, order online and riding our bikes to the "click and collect" pickup. The only way to … Continue reading Weekly GDT food inventory haul
Announcing Next Hike: GDT
We are excited to announce that we will hike the GDT (Great Divide Trail) in the summer of 2018. We will do our best to blog about the process. We have created a sub page here that will summarize all of our content about the hike. Why the GDT? We decided to do the hike earlier … Continue reading Announcing Next Hike: GDT
Gear Review: MSR Revo Ascent Snowshoes
We've had these for a year (we are on our second season with them), so I thought it would be a good idea to review them after we have had a chance to use them a season. We started snowshoeing a few years ago but had always rented the shoes at the mountain. Doing this … Continue reading Gear Review: MSR Revo Ascent Snowshoes
Trip Report: Snowshoeing Dog Mountain
We went snowshoeing up Dog Mountain on December 23 with some friends. The day was beautiful! It was a bit busy; it was apparent when we showed up the parking was filling up. Once we parked and geared up we hiked. It was quite pretty out. When we reached the fork in the trail for … Continue reading Trip Report: Snowshoeing Dog Mountain
Day Trip Report: Grouse Mountain Snowshoeing
We went out to Grouse Mountain for the first time this year on December 3rd in order to start the season off. We had not gone out snowshoeing yet this season, and were not sure how the snow would be so we decided to take a chance. When we got to the mountain the line … Continue reading Day Trip Report: Grouse Mountain Snowshoeing
Gear Selection: Bear Canisters
The two of us have degrees in engineering so when it comes to selecting and optimizing our gear we often draw on that background to help with the selection process. When gear is purely performance based with less dependence on comfort or fit then it lends itself to that kind of selection process quite … Continue reading Gear Selection: Bear Canisters
Backpacks & Bike Racks 