GDT kms: 6 Daily kms: 12 We started today with a rough start as neither of us were able to get much sleep on the bus. We arrived in Pincher Creek around 3:45am and then needed to wait until 5:00am for the Timmy's to open. We grabbed breakfast and sat around Timmy's for around an … Continue reading Day 0 – The longest hitch
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Day 00/0 On our way to the GDT!
After a slow morning, which just seemed to crawl along... we made it to the airport with no problems. With coffee and cookie in hand we waited for our plane in the sunshine. The flight was brief, and uneventful. Barely enough time to settle in before the flight was over! We arrived in Calgary and … Continue reading Day 00/0 On our way to the GDT!
GDT: 24 hour Count Down Until the Journey to Waterton
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
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
Great Divide Trail: Logistics we need help with
If you're reading this, you've probably heard that we are planning to hike the Great Divide Trail in July and August. You can find more information about the route on the Great Divide Trail Association website, but the basics of our trip are: 1130km Planned itinerary is 51 days including 3 zero days (days where … Continue reading Great Divide Trail: Logistics we need help with
Stein Valley Nlaka’pamux Day 3
Last night was a bit warmer and we were both warm enough under the quilt. I forgot to deflate my half of the sleeping pad before going to sleep though and I kept waking up with a sore hip and needing to rotate though. In the morning, we were relatively quick and managed to get … Continue reading Stein Valley Nlaka’pamux Day 3
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
New Gear Day: Exped Synmat Duo Sleeping Pad
Hopefully the last item we purchase (other than food and consumables) before we head out on the Great Divide Trail this summer. Overall the sleeping pad, stuff sack, and pump sack add about 100g compared to our current sleeping pad set-up, but when used with our MYOG quilt, we will save about 1kg and have … Continue reading New Gear Day: Exped Synmat Duo Sleeping Pad
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
Backpacks & Bike Racks 