Category: 35 Trails

35 Trails: The Final Leg

  Today is April 9th, which marks the first day of the last month of the 35 Trails Project! In one month, I’ll be 36, which I have…

35 Trails: Gratitude, Generosity and a Holiday Update

So, it turns out that doing a thing and writing about doing the thing are indeed difficult to maintain in tandem; but the 35 Trails project is alive…

35 Trails Project: Grace is a Canoe

Note: This canoe trip was totally one of my 35 trails because it was a water trail, complete with trail markers. There were also portages, if you’re of…

35 Trails: Human Innovation and the Nature Trail

  Last weekend, I revisited one of my go-to hiking trails. The Sea to Summit trail, near Squamish, climbs from the parking lot for the Sea to Sky…

35 Trails: Slippery Slopes and Acceptable Risk

I am not a risk-taker. Despite it being extremely obvious, it’s taken me 35 years to realize this fact about myself, probably because my mom still worries about…

35 Trails: The First Hike

“I’m better now, son. But I’ll never be as I was.” I’ve been cleaning out a bookshelf, and came across an old university notebook, where on the back…