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. …

Calgary Herald

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

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.

Here’s the start of the 2,663 mile Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada.

I was trying to wave down a Coyote. Catch a ride north rather than walk the 20 hot miles to first camp. 🙂

I’m here this year only to get information and inspiration.

The 26-foot-tall 34,000 pound sculpture, manufactured of painted stainless steel and aluminum, is a super-sized sculptural tribute to Marilyn Monroe’s iconic scene from Billy Wilder’s 1955 infidelity comedy, The Seven-Year Itch …

I’m en route to ADZPCTKO.

FANTASTIC.

Trip report coming soon.