Category Archives: Western Canada

Travels within Western Canada

Practice Hiking

Posted on May 23, 2013 by debbie

Our twice a week walks, preparing to backpack the West Coast Trail, take a new twist. We dig out our backpacks from the cupboard, dust them off, figure out whose pack is whose, try them on and begin to walk … Continue reading →

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Hiking Boots – More Problems

Posted on June 5, 2013 by debbie

Hiking boots seem to be my “bug bear” right now. My old boots disintegrated. I had to buy new boots. My new boots felt great for 2 weeks. When I increased my backpack weight to 18 lbs my new boots … Continue reading →

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Backpacking Food, The Learning Curve

Posted on June 12, 2013 by debbie

Now that my hiking boot issue is mostly solved (just dealing with a slight sock issue), I move on to learning about eating while on a long backpack trip. All I can say is that it is complicated and there … Continue reading →

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Dehydrator 1, Debbie 0

Posted on June 14, 2013 by debbie

I have learned over the years that my body functions best on meat protein, fruits, veggies and a limited amount of starches. I notice that many recipes for backpacking draw proteins from lentils and beans combined with rice, noodles, milk … Continue reading →

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Dehydrator 1, Debbie 3

Posted on June 16, 2013 by debbie

Fortunately, I do have success with the dehydrator to offset the chicken disaster. Success #1 – Dahl (or Daal) – Murray and I really like Dahl, something we learned to eat while in India. On rice or with naan (Murray) … Continue reading →

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The Chicken Story Continued

Posted on June 18, 2013 by debbie

I dehydrate some more chicken. Bake it, cut is in small strips and then dehydrate it. I start it in the morning and watch it carefully. I stop dehydrating  when the chicken is still bendy but looks very dry. (A … Continue reading →

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A Waylaid Practice Backpack Trip

Posted on June 22, 2013 by debbie

This morning we were supposed to wake up in our tent out in the mountains on a practice backpack trip in Banff National Park. Instead we wake up at my cousin’s house in Calgary who has sheltered my sister and … Continue reading →

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Glacier Lake Backpack

Posted on July 6, 2013 by debbie

We are getting ready to hoist our backpacks in the parking lot at the Glacier Lake trail head and we chat first to a couple from Quebec and then one from Australia. We start down the trail and meet a … Continue reading →

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West Coast Trail Menu Plan

Posted on July 14, 2013 by debbie

I love Excel. I use it for EVERYTHING! So when I need to layout the menu plan for the West Coast Trail backpack trip, I turn to Excel. I create column headings along the top that say: Sunday July 28 … Continue reading →

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Trainin’ for the Trail (West Coast Trail)

Posted on July 17, 2013 by murray

We are old. Not really old but old enough to have to work constantly so we can touch our toes and on a good day the floor. It used to be that if one of my friends said ‘Let’s go … Continue reading →

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