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An adventure travel journal.

Spread the Love: 3 Organizations That Give (Nature) Back

Last week, I was driving home from work. I was tired, as I always am, but the rain had stopped and my commute that day took me through…

The Trips I Didn’t Take

I am subscribed to a dangerous email list. It’s called YVR Deals, and it sends out an email whenever a really cheap flight deal is happening out of…

Anxiety and Your Trip to Cuba: A 5 Step Guide

  This November, I was finally able to make it to Cuba – a place that, during the Obama era, I wanted to visit before it became overrun…

5 Badass (ish) Long Weekend Adventures

Since my life has become a blur of working in an actual office, still doing all my other jobs, and also, now, becoming a beach volleyball ace (ok,…

Ghost Lifts and Friendly Turns at Mt. Baldy, BC

Have you ever had one of those dreams where you’re skiing at a resort in the interior of British Columbia, only the resort is actually abandoned, so instead…

Vantage, WA: Shoulder Season Climbing At Its Best

Thanksgiving weekend has traditionally been my last hurrah of the climbing season. Back when Vancouver had distinguishable seasons (shoulder season, ski season, climbing season), rather than the maybe-it’ll-snow-maybe-it’ll-be-20-degrees-and-sunny…

Summer of Stone and Surf: Solo Hiking and Imaginary Cougars (or how I was not the girl from Wild)

  A blue bird had been flying ahead of me on the trail for a good few kilometres, flitting to the next branch whenever I got too close….

Summer of Stone and Surf: On Trust

On my third day in Canmore, I was lucky enough to climb Eeyore’s Tail, a 10 pitch, 355 meter route up the face of East End of Rundle…

Summer of Stone and Surf: Having New Eyes

  Two days ago, at a bookstore/cafe in Golden, I opened a book about “vital energy” to discover a quote by Proust: “The voyage of discovery is not…

Summer of Stone and Surf: The Beginning

It’s officially the summer of stone and surf, and I couldn’t be happier. Did I steal the name from a hat I saw at a shop in Revelstoke?…