Winter Camping with the Jeep

I’ve been pacing the floors far too often this winter. Eager to get out and enjoy being surrounded by nothing but the wilderness, and when weekend weather reports were calling for +9C and a low of only +4C, I thought that it would be a great time to get out…

Winter Sun Rise over Abraham Lake

On my first camping trip out for the 2015 season, I decided to try a GoPro capture of a sunrise in the mountains. I took 1 second intervals for this time-lapse sunrise over Lake Abraham in Alberta. The video was assembled in the GoPro studio software. To help line up…

Fire Baked Cinnamon Buns

Having a tasty breakfast is always a great way to start the day when out camping. I’ll do bacon and eggs, oatmeal, even cold cereal – but to top it off, these fire baked cinnamon buns are a really great way to finish off your breakfast before packing up your…

TransAlta Trail Run

I enjoy my solitude, but some times you just need to get together with friends and go out and have a good time. That was the idea behind a recent trail run on the “TransAlta” road and into the Ghost River area of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. We met up…

Safety on Ice

I grew up given a ‘fear’ of the ice. “Stay off the ice, you’ll fall through and die!”, my mom would always tell me during the winter months when I’d go outside to play with neighbourhood friends (that was during the days when video games existed and people knew what…