Glacier National Park Wrap-Up
After spending a month in Glacier National Park and exploring the nooks and crannies, it’s time to call it a wrap and move…
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Flathead Lake Sailing
It isn’t always just mountains and alpine, today it’s sailing on Flathead Lake! When we lived in Key Largo we missed the mountains….
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Avalanche Lake via Trail of the Cedars
Avalanche Lake via Trail of the Cedars is the number one hike within Glacier National Park, and with good reason. The Trail of…
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Banff Review
Banff is well in our rearview mirror, and we’re glad to check it off the list. This is a well-delayed post since we’ve…
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Minnewanka Lake Trail
Minnewanka Lake is a nice break from the Banff crowds – once you get away from the parking lot and hit the trails….
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Hike to Consolation Lakes
The hike to Consolation Lakes is a great hike near Moraine Lake in Banff National Park. We recommend hiking to the lower lake,…
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Moraine Lake
Moraine Lake in Banff National Park is called Reddit Lake, in fact there is an entire subreddit called Reddit Lake. Photographs make the…
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Lake Louise
Lake Louise is THE place to see and be in Banff, so you better plan ahead with your lodging and transportation! Parking is…
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Banff National Park
Bow Glacier Falls is totally what we expected from Banff National Park – glacial blue water, high peaks, a thundering waterfall, and of…
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Cracker Lake Hike
We fully expected the hike up to Cracker Lake to be a welcome solitary experience in Glacier National Park, and we weren’t disappointed….
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Grinnell Lake
The hike to Grinnell Lake is an easy day hike if you have extra time in the Many Glacier area of Glacier National…
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Highline Trail to Grinnell Glacier
The Highline Trail is one of the top-rated trails in Glacier National Park, and adding the extra effort to make it up to…
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Hidden Lake Hike
Hidden Lake in Glacier National Park is anything but hidden. Due to its starting location at the Logan Pass Visitor Center, this is…
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Many Glacier
In our humble opinion, the Many Glacier area of Glacier National Park is the best area of the entire Park, but don’t tell…
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Two Medicine
The Two Medicine area of Glacier National Park is much less visited than the main Going-To-The-Sun area of the Park due to poor…
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Deadwood Falls via Gunsight Pass
Deadwood Falls was nowhere on our to-do list, but when we couldn’t find parking at Logan Pass and looked at what was relatively…
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Waterton Lakes National Park – Alberta Canada
Waterton Lakes National Park was created in 1895 in the southwestern corner of Alberta Canada. Since this is only an hour away from…
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Three Falls Trail
The Three Falls Trail in Glacier National Park is referred to as several different things, but Three Falls makes the most sense since…
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Welcome to Glacier
We finally made it back to the mountains where we belong, tucked into a campground just outside Glacier National Park in northern-northern Montana….
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Fort Peck Lake
Fort Peck Lake in northeastern Montana is the fifth-largest artificial lake in the United States. We needed a stopping place between Theodore Roosevelt…
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North Dakota Bits and Pieces
North Dakota is generally considered one of the "fly-over states". The term is so prevalent that country singer Jason Aldean created a song…
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