I’m just finishing a BUSY World Gymnastics Championships, packing for my next destination — northern India. Hiking.
If you’ve got time for a laugh today, click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
You’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world.
Professor Bill Sands recommended to me this unbelievably likable educator from Sweden.
Little is known about this GoPro video filmed from the back of an eagle, save that it was filmed in the Mer de Glace area of Chamonix …
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Brian and I took two of his sons and a friend to Waterton National Park. None of the teens had been there before.
We took them first to a classic destination – Red Rock Canyon.
Henry
Next day we did Canada’s Best Hike 1982 – Crypt Lake.
Akamina Parkway has been closed all season. The road washed out.
Waterton’s my favourite National Park
… too busy doing cool stuff in the out of doors. Hiking. Cycling. That kind of thing …
🙂
They’ve had some INCREDIBLE weather up at Hurricane Ridge, Olympic National Park lately.
Opening up GREAT HIKING as the snow melts.
more photos from our day hike
Thanks Diana.
August 7-13th.
The West Coast Trail is my favourite hike in the world. This will be my 4th time through.
Eleven Saskatchewan prairie types are booked. Only 5 of us have done it before.
Training hike on the bank of the North Saskatchewan river in Saskatoon.
Stone gate Danxia Landform in Chishui S.W. China Guizhou Province, China.
What an incredible landscape.
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The inaugural commercial in Travel Alberta’s Remember to Breathe campaign has garnered 1.8 million YouTube views in two years and has won more than 25 marketing awards, but the Crown corporation isn’t resting on those laurels.
It’s launching Remember to Breathe 3.0, with a heavy emphasis on promoting social media for travellers to share their Alberta experiences. …
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See more like that on the Travel Alberta YouTube channel.
I’m thinking WATERTON NATIONAL PARK summer 2013. 🙂
My 6 day trip report from the fantastic Otter Trail, South Africa is now up.
I’m hoping to get back to Southern Africa in 2014 to hike the Drakensberg mountains. And Namibia.
20 miles down hill with a day pack?
How hard could it be?
BLOODY hard. It was closer to 23 miles from Sunrise highway near Mt Laguna store back to Lake Morena.
RECOVERY DRINK needed = chocolate milk.
The best news?
When you FINALLY arrive back into camp, drunken hikers burst into applause. And serve you chile.
She’s dressed properly for the climate close to the Mexican border in April, by the way. I’m wearing all the wrong clothes. 🙂
An anti-thru hiker.
Rick McCharles 