This past fall I was attending a professional development day in the Bow Valley that was specifically for Outdoor Educators. One of the guest speakers was Jeff MacPherson, a Rescue Specialist with Kananaskis Public Safety. […]
This week our chosen Homegrown Business is Kin + Pod, an Alberta Company dedicated to making exceptional chocolate from Bean to Bar. They care about where the beans come from and who’s producing them. They […]
Hello there, my name is Kaleidoscope! I’m a beautiful girl with a colourful personality. I can become overstimulated so let’s take things slow to ensure we have a long and happy life together, okay? I […]
Our chosen Charitable Choices feature this week is Alberta Ecotrust who are committed to addressing Alberta’s environmental issues and working with the community to invest in and support projects involving water, land use and climate […]
What is it about a waterfall that draws us in? Is it the unbridled power? The constant motion? The indescribable beauty? Some combination of all of them? Whatever it is, waterfalls have an innate ability […]
“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.” […]
At their most basic, glaciers are concentrations of fallen snow that are compressed over many years into large masses of ice. Glaciers form when more snow accumulates in an area than can melt in a […]
“It had been a long day. Ed’s fifty-seven winters combined with the warm sun of later afternoon weighed heavily on his eyelids, so he drowsed in the saddle, riding with a slack rein. Sometimes he […]
This is the fifth post in my series on exploring the names of some of Calgary’s most popular landmarks. Previous installments included Calgary’s major roads and trails, several of Calgary’s bridges, the popular parks and […]
Jasper National Park hasn’t always been known as such. Originally the small community was called Fitzhugh, after the general manager and vice president of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, Earl Hopkins Fitzhugh Jr. The original […]
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