When people think of rock climbing in the Canadian Rockies, places like Banff, Canmore, Lake Louise and Kananaskis Country come to mind. These are some great places to climb, to be sure, but what about Jasper National Park? While a...
Go Whitewater Rafting on the Athabasca River Whitewater rafting down the Athabasca River with Maligne Adventures was our favourite tour in Jasper National Park. We booked the Class 2+ Athabasca Canyon Run with Maligne Adventures and had a blast! At first, my youngest...
Lesser Slave Lake is the third largest lake in Alberta and a popular place for fishing, boating, swimming and sunbathing. The lake itself is surrounded by several campgrounds as well as the Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park. For our family reunion we stayed a week at...
Apiaries in northern Alberta are highly successful thanks to the long summer days and the cool summer nights. The hives here produce staggering amounts of honey that are shipped domestically and internationally, to places like Japan and the United States. We had...
St. Isidore is a small francophone farming community in northern Alberta and the hometown of my father-in-law. His family, searching for a better life, moved their large family from Québec to St. Isidore in 1958. What they encountered on their arrival was far from...
The Hoodoos are sandstone pillars topped by protective capstones. It takes millions of years for these pillars to form and every year wind, rain and snow slowly erode them away. These unique structures are scattered throughout the Alberta Badlands but just 16km east...
About twenty years ago my family spent some time exploring various attractions around Drumheller, AB. It was such a memorable experience that I wanted to bring my own children here one day. Now that we are here I am happy to report that the experience does not...
Bow Valley Campground is a popular camping spot for folks living in Calgary because it is a relatively shorts drive away. I have done a fair bit of camping between Jasper and Canmore but this was a new stop for me. As we drove from Lake Louise, through Banff and...
Why we were going to look at a lake was beyond my children. We live by a lake and we only look at it if we aren’t close enough to be in it. It took a bit of convincing and explaining for them to understand that we were going to see a special lake. When we arrived at...