Former Olympian Ken Reid and GM Andre Quenneville – the first on the lift this morning We’re Back Skiing in the Canadian Rockies As of 10 AM, Mountain Standard Time,…


A sugar maple erupting in fall red! I have just returned from a month of colours in central Canada and the Eastern USA. I maintained my internal enthusiasm for woodland florescence…

Glorious Tamaracks in the Rockies Mid-September can be magical in British Columbia and Alberta. When it all comes together, the larch, birch and tamarack trees erupt into beautiful golden hues,…

Canada is in the dying days of a painful and tiring national election. With a small and extremely diverse population spread across the second largest sovereign land-mass on earth, speaking…

As can be expected, the recent humanitarian crisis in Syria elicits many emotions and perhaps some serious debate. Of course it has also opened a platform for bigotry, intolerance and…

Travel is often called the best education – both structured and unintended. The visitor, one would hope, should be the most affected by the experience in a learning context But…

Just another hike – this one is Vancouver Island, but we ‘climb’ throughout the mountains. Falling from 8000 ft – How did we survive! Well, we actually survived because it…

I bought Candace’s book and started planning a trip to Eastend, with my son and his best friend, both of whom are dinosaur fanatics. T-rex Centre, Eastend, Saskatchewan The T-Rex…

What a lovely, enthusiastic group – just like travelling with friends! A few of our travellers heading up to Gold Leaf This is a group-specific blog for the Go Ahead…

This was my third year at Camp Chief Hector – they offer day camps for younger kids and sleep over camps for kids my age and older. You have the…