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Category Archives: Travels
The Experiment of Diving
No matter how long someone has been scuba diving for, day one of a dive trip is always an experiment. Haven’t gone diving for months, wetsuit is super dried out, wetsuit is new, gear is supposed to work as it … Continue reading
Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands
My legs are failing, my lungs ready to explode, my side is ripping apart. I am running like an impala being hunted by a cheetah down a moving sidewalk in Miami’s International Airport. My heavy pack is bouncing around on … Continue reading
Backcountry Skiing at Sol Mountain, BC – Last Day
Years ago when Murray started backcountry skiing I remember saying that I would never go into the wilds in the winter. Too dangerous. Too scary. On Sunday, as I was sitting in the trees all by myself waiting for Murray … Continue reading
Backcountry Skiing at Sol Mountain, BC – Day 2
It’s the day we head out on a long trip. The tour starts with skiing, no uphill trek. The turns are on wind sifted snow and not the sun soaked stuff that was on the same slope yesterday. The run … Continue reading
Backcountry Skiing at Sol Mountain, BC
We hear the thup thup thup before we see the small red helicopter. It circles the clearing near Sugar Lake outside Cherryville, BC and then drops down to the grass. After a short time, I find myself sitting in the … Continue reading
Kicking Horse Ski Resort
10 am Sunday. We load up the Rav4 to drive from Edmonton to Golden, BC to ski at Kicking Horse Ski Resort planning to arrive in the Lake Louise area about mid-afternoon, hopefully after the forecasted heavy snow fall has … Continue reading
San Salvador, Bahamas
When we got home from Myanmar, I was tired. Part of the tiredness was from not scheduling down time during our 4 week adventure. Part of the tiredness was from, in my opinion, traveling consistently every fall for 4 or … Continue reading
Off to the Mountains!
Two days of skiing in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. For me, day one is cross country skiing at the Canmore Nordic Centre and day two is alpine skiing at Sunshine – a chance to test my skiing ability on some … Continue reading
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Learning to Alpine Ski
Murray is a self-confessed ski bum. Has skied since he was a teen, taught skiing for a number of years at Whistler, worked in Edmonton’s ski industry for 20 some years. I, on the other hand, do not ski. Until … Continue reading
Virgin Gorda update
I think we are set. Way too far in advance but as I mentioned we are traveling at Easter and also the time of many an American school spring break. We must be cognizant of the timing and therefore have … Continue reading