
August 20, 2018: Calgary 297km to date
I began this hike in Northeast Calgary where if follows a bike path along Nosehill Creek into the city. Nothing special to note, except...

August 18, 2018: Edmonton
Started out in East Edmonton early in the BC wildfire smoke, but it cleared up later in the morning. Once again I ran into a major detour...

June 22, 2018: Idabel Lake Rd. to Wilkinson rd.
Thirty five kilometres today with Doug completes my continuous hike from Faulder to Rock Creek, 225km. Yippee! Great scenery... parts of...

June 18, 2018: south to Chute Lake
A hot morning, 4km uphill on Gillard Forestry Road, then 12km to Chute Lake Resort. Afterwards, Cindy and I did a Naramata wine tour and...

June 16, 2018: Beaverdell north
Buzz, buzz, buzz... four hours of mosquitoes, unrelenting. They were able to find where I missed my repellent, so I had about 5 bites in...

June 11, 2018: Myra Canyon west
Well, had to do an out and back today, so the 23km was only 11.5. Oh well, logistics... started late so brought my stove to cook some...

June 5, 2018: Beaverdell south
I'm at the stage in this endeavour that I'm trying to 'fill in the blanks/connect the dots' on a continuous 225km from west of Summerland...

May 29, 2018: Adra Tunnel to Chute Lake Resort
My former golf partner, Doug, joined me on this 20km uphill section of the KVR to Chute Lake Resort. We were warned there by the...

May 24, 2018: Hydraulic Lake to Idabel Lake Road
Just a short hike and a bike ride back to the truck... it was a good test of the mosquito spray! Interesting information along the route...

May 18, 2018: Myra to McCulloch Road going east
Well, it seemed like a short jaunt, but I had to hike back to my truck so it was actually 22km. Mosquitoes are out, clean mountain air,...

May 13, 2018: Summerland to Penticton
Not much to write about this one, as it was on highway 97 for 9km, then through the town of Penticton up towards the Kettle Valley Railway.

May 3, 2018: Westbridge north to Rhone road
Went north towards Beaverdell... Kettle River was nearly flooding in the spring run-off, and the last 9km of the 13 were on the road,...

April 30, 2018: Myra Canyon Trestles KVR
I started at the east side of Myra Canyon, and the hike was dry and the views were great, but where the KVR travels on the north side of...

April 21-23, 2018: Vancouver
Three days straight on concrete and pavement, over 50km walked, I'd call it a successful endeavour; however, the sunny weather helped a...

April 12, 2018 Westbridge to Rock Creek
6c and overcast, north wind... well, not what I expected of this short 14km southeast trek to near the American border. The downed burnt...

April 8, 2018: Summerland to Faulder
Said goodbye to Cindy and began my uphill 7km to the trailhead. I had all day for this section so I was taking it slow and enjoying the...

April 4, 2018 Penticton to Naramata
A good day for a hike. The Kettle Valley Railway trail is on an uphill grade in this section, but barely noticeable at 422m over 16.5 km....

March 22, 2018: An Inauspicious Start
Well, I moved up my start date for my Trans Canada Trail journey (bit by bit) by a full month as I was bored with the training around...


















