Mileage: 26.5km (1.6km on the GDT, the remainder on our route around La Coulotte) Another hiker rolled in late to the Font Creek camp last night and thankfully didn't wake Toothless when he poked his head over to our tent to ask if we had an iPhone charge cable. And then we had a brief … Continue reading GDT Day 5 – On the road again
Mileage: 14.8 km Today was a nice and easy day. Thankfully! Toothless slept in quite late this morning. He woke at 7:30am instead of his usual 5:30-6:00am window. Normally this late of a sleep in would stress me backpacking but we hike on his schedule and we planned most days to be relatively short to … Continue reading GDT Day 4 – I’ll take an easy day
Mileage: 22.4km (including 2 bonus km from camp back to the GDT) Toothless woke at 5:30am and we had a long day ahead, so we tried to pack up and get an early start. We made quick work of our 2km detour back to the official trail, but the sun was already starting to get … Continue reading GDT Day 3 – More up, up, up
Mileage: 21.5 km Today was a good day. It was hard but good. Toothless woke at 6:30am, which gave us a bit of time to sleep in after the wonky, slow and late past few days. He was in the best of moods so we were able to break camp in about an hour. This … Continue reading GDT Day 2 – Uh, I guess we are really doing this
GDT Mileage: 6.0 kmDaily Mileage: 12.0 km The reality of the trail started set in last night as we spent a long (for hikers) evening chatting with Alastair and Jacqueline, who just hiked part of section A, and Lowell and Jeanette, who were sharing our ride down to Waterton. It was interesting to hear there … Continue reading GDT Day 1 – Slow, then fast
We are hiking the GDT this time around with our son, Toothless. He will be about 8 months old when we start hiking. Over the past few months we have been working out what gear to bring on the GDT with him. We have been overcoming his constantly changing needs as well as gear shortages. … Continue reading GDT 2021 Gear List
Mileage: 15km We awoke once again to rain. This time we didn't laze around though since warm showers and cold beers were waiting for us in town! We even managed to get packing up down to 1.5 hours or so despite needing to maneuver around in the tent to pack up most of our stuff. … Continue reading SCT 2021 Day 6 – Back to the car!
Mileage: 11.75 km We had another relatively early start with Toothless ready to start the day before 6am - definitely woke up a few members of the group camping under us. Oops 😉 A steady climb up towards Confederation Lake took longer than I hoped for, but eventually we reached the cabin. We had a … Continue reading SCT 2021 Day 5 – Fiddlehead to Inland Lake
Mileage: 15.5km mostly along FSRs to avoid going back over Tin Hat Lewis Lake was very noisy overnight - the frogs were throwing a huge party most of the night! It was surprisingly warm for right beside the lake though which was nice. Today was our turnaround day and neither of us was looking forward … Continue reading SCT 2021 Day 4 – Roadwalking to Fiddlehead
Mileage: 6.75 km Toothless was once again up bright and early around 5:30am; it was raining it still though and we still needed his diapers to dry, so we didn't start packing up yet. After some crawling all over us, thankfully we were able to convince him to go back to sleep until 7am. It … Continue reading SCT 2021 Day 3 – Tin Hat to Lewis Lake
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