Mileage: 16.3km Today we did my favourite section of the HRT (High Rock Trail); it has the best views and great trail. We started slowly at Window Mountain Lake after Toothless woke up a handful of times last night. It took us a while to break camp so we started just after 8:00am. At the … Continue reading GDT Day 12 – Dope Views and Good Trail
Mileage: 15.3km We were awoken by cows trying to invade our tent - at least that's what it sounded like when Kyle told me at 5:30am that cows were beside the tent. I ignored him and rolled over trying to eke out the last few minutes of sleep before Toothless got up for the day. … Continue reading GDT Day 11 – Finally off the road!
Mileage: 10.1 km Initially I thought we had to pull off a big day today, so yesterday I was dreading getting up early and pushing through the road out of Coleman then still having to go another 10-15 kms. Fortunately our itinerary had a gap from us adjusting it at the last minute before we … Continue reading GDT Day 10 – Heading out of Coleman
Day 8 Mileage: 12.3km Day 9 Mileage: 0️⃣ The walk into town is always pretty uneventful with the focus on keeping our heads down and flying through the miles until we have town food in our tummies, and laundry and showers on the go. We took a brief break for Toothless to crawl around a … Continue reading GDT Day 8 & 9 – Lots of Driving
Daily Mileage: 20.8 km We were relatively slow at breaking camp this morning which wasn't aided by the fact that Toothless pooped right before we were about to head out. (Though being right beside an outhouse rather than needing to dig a cathole was a plus!) One more diaper change later and we got on … Continue reading GDT Day 7 – A nicer ATV trail experience than last time
Answer: It would be more fun with a baby than doing La Coulotte... Mileage: 18.8km (16.8 on our road alternate, 2.0 on the GDT, also road 😅) Today was a slightly easier day than yesterday but much more boring and frustrating. I woke still with blisters on my feet - a little better than yesterday … Continue reading GDT Day 6 – Why did we choose road walking again?
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
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