Sept. 25 - Oct. 5, 2026 What better way to show off BC to my two dutch sister-in-laws, than to drive through the most beautiful part of our country, the Canadian Rockies. The weather was on our side, illuminating the vibrant autumn yellow, gold and red colours backed up by a cobalt bue sky. A liesurely drive to Cultus Lake and then through Columbia Valley while dealing with their jetlag. Sept. 25 - We began our trip by driving to Manning Park where we stayed the night with so

Sept. 7-8, 2026 From Tolim we took the train (which was 30-minutes late because they were waiting for a group of people to arrive) to Bohinj Lake, the largest lake in Slovenia. Alison took the train straight through to Bled which was on the itinerary. The via feratta gear had to be dropped off at a certain time so she brought ours in too. The idea was that she'd grab my bag of sight-seeing clothes that I'd left at the very first hotel we stayed at back in Kranjska Gora. They

Sept. 1 - 9, 2026 -- Slovenia Triglav National Park is Slovenia's only national park. It contains almost all of the Julian Alps. It's located in the northwest corner of Slovenia and takes up 3% of the country's surface. The small country (population over 2,100,000) has only 47km of coast along the Adriatic Sea. When we had our briefing the day before we were to begin our 6-day hut-to-hut trek, we were rather taken aback when the man pulled via ferrata equipment from his bag.