Tag Archives: walk The informative signposting captures it: What a Colour! – Quelle couleur! Peyto Lake deserves its reputation as a highlight along the magnificent Icefields Parkway through Canada’s UNESCO-listed Rocky Mountains. But the whole road is a joy. Highway 93 runs 233 kilometers (143 miles) north-south between Jasper in the Jasper National Park and Lake Louise in Banff National Park. In theory, it […]  It was a bittersweet feeling: this was our last day of trekking in the magnificent Annapurna mountains of Nepal. Every step of this “Easy” Poon Hill Trek had reminded me that I’m not as young as I once was. But, the accommodation was vastly improved compared with my first visit to this region many years […]  Alberta’s Icefields Parkway has been called one of the most scenic drives in the entire world. Highway 93, which runs the 233 kilometers (143 miles) between the little hamlet of Lake Louise in Banff National Park and the alpine town of Jasper in the Jasper National Park, runs parallel with North America’s Continental Divide through […]  I was distressed to hear about the earthquake in Nepal earlier this month (3 November 2023): multi-storied brick houses in the remote, mountainous districts of Jajarkot and West Rukum collapsed after the 6.4 magnitude (USGS) quake, burying whole families in the rubble. This beautiful country has had a special place in my heart since my […]  I’ve had a love of the Canadian Rocky Mountains for as long as I can remember. In my earliest years in Canada, we lived on the West Coast, where the mountains and Pacific Ocean meet. Then we moved inland, to the foothills of Calgary, where the Prairies stretch out flat in the east forever … But […] |
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