Some of my most precious memories of wilderness adventures are planted in places for which access requires extra effort. Cathedral Lakes Lodge in Cathedral Provincial Park is a great example. From Vancouver, it’s about four hours east via Manning Park on Route 3 (also known as the Crow’s Nest Highway) past Hedley and before Keremeos, […]

National Geographic Travel has just announced their list of Canada’s 50 Places of a Lifetime – including 11 spots in BC! Read on to see which BC places National Geographic thinks should be added to your travel bucket list: The Discovery Islands “‘The Discovery Islands are everything you imagine the west coast of Canada to […]

Back in the “before” when Pemberton had no sidewalks, seed potatoes were pretty much the only claim to fame of the place you landed if you accidentally drove past Whistler. The alpine around Pemberton was the secret playground of salt-of-the-earth farm families who punched trails straight up mountainsides in order to beat the summer heat. (Before […]

From the Trans-Canada highway, Golden, BC looks like your typical highway town: gas stations, hotels, fast food joints. But one small turn off of Hwy 1 into its historic downtown, and you start to get the feeling that there just might be something special about this place. A little more exploration and you’ll discover that […]

As the excitement for autumn builds, so does the potential for some great outdoor adventures. Here in the Kamloops area, it can get pretty hot in the summer, which can be a deterrent for any moderately difficult outdoor activities. Now that the weather is a little more bearable, September through November is the perfect time […]

Over the years, I’ve heard stories from people who have canoed the picturesque Bowron Lake Circuit near Wells, BC. It is a 116 km paddle journey around a series of lakes, waterways, and portages in the Cariboo Mountains. I was in the area for a film shoot and there was no way I was going […]