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…

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…

Athabasca Ice Fishing Adventure

As part of a corporate team building event, it was decided a few that a few of us would head a couple of hours North of Edmonton to the small town of Athabasca to meet with a guide to take us out ice fishing for the weekend. It’s a quiet…

Lake Minnewanka

I’ve typically stayed clear of frozen lakes, rivers and ponds with the exception of a brief “ice golf” tournament a few years ago, and an ice fishing trip in February of 2015. Lake Minnewanka was calling to me however. It is a man-made lake in Alberta, and due to this…