After the last Alaskan stop in the town of Hyder, where we were lucky enough to see a bear hunting salmon, we were supposed to head to North Cascades National Park in Washington state. But as has happened many times before, the weather took its toll, or rather, the forecast for the next 10 days. […]
We visited both national parks as a side trip from our stay in Banff National Park in Alberta. To see both parks comfortably, we needed to be lucky enough to get a campsite at McLeod Meadows Campground in Kootenay National Park. And we did. McLeod Meadows Campground offered us not only the last available spot,
We arrived in Banff National Park at the end of the Canada Day long weekend, so on the way from Calgary to Banff we saw a traffic jam of more than 50 km on Trans Canada Hwy 1, fortunately in the opposite direction. So we were even more excited that we managed to book
Waterton Lakes National Park was originally supposed to be on our fall itinerary. But a combination of circumstances, and especially the weather, caused us to include it in our wanderings at the end of June. We set off towards it with the risk of not finding a place to camp due to the long
We used to say that our biggest boss, by far, is the weather. It changed our travel plans many, many times. And so it was in the case of Lake Superior Provincial Park. We had planned to walk a few hiking trails in its territory, but the high temperatures and humidity literally drove us
