Derek’s Cross-country Skiing and Snowshoeing Antics
As far as low-impact, family friendly outdoor winter activities are concerned, there are few that are as accessible while potentially also exhilarating as cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. These two activities can be as benign or as extreme as you want them to be. Based on my previous blog post about outdoor winter activities you will
Must-See Calgary: “I have half a day to explore”
Where should I go and what should I see? If you find yourself with half a day at your disposal to discover Calgary, I can provide you with a travel pack full of destinations that you can check off your proverbial to-see list. While there is a lot to see and experience in the outlying neighbourhoods,
Are there boundaries to urban wildlife?
A perspective on Coyotes in Calgary Communities Christa, my wife, loves city wildlife. As a Grade 3 teacher she soaks up any opportunity to engage and share stories with her hungry bunch of learners about the natural inhabitants surrounding us. Where do they live? What is their lifecycle? What do they eat? What are their habits?
Derek’s Dismal Winter Pastime Misfortunes
We’ve heard the adage “If you build it, they will come”. Might the same principle apply to other things, like “if you speak it, it will happen”? The winter of 2017/8 was a particularly cold one in Calgary, if my memory serves me right. We saw few – if any – Chinooks. These “warm” mountain winds traditionally blow
Top Choice Calgary Off-Leash Winter Walks with “Man’s Best Friend”
There is no doubt about it, Canada’s winters can be frigid! That being said, Calgary’s local micro-climate does spoil us with some milder weathered days and oodles of sunshine where we can get to enjoy the outdoors. If your workday doesn’t afford you the luxury of absorbing the benefits of our short window of daylight
Exploring the Bow River Pathway (NW)
As the extended summer season of 2017 drew to a rapid close and the onset of fall was imminent I suddenly become aware of how much outdoor activity there was to still enjoy and how little time remained to enjoy it before we had to layer up with thermal underwear and restrictive padded overlayers. I
McHugh Bluff
I suspect that most photograph-crazy visitors to a new city want to suss out where they can find the best views to capture their memories and to get a feel of the lay-of-the-land during their stay. I would venture so far as to say most locals in any city have their favourite location that they
The Peace Bridge
It’s a fact: even negative publicity is a great marketing tool. When such publicity surrounds a controversial public structure you can almost be guaranteed that this will either become a monumental success or failure … no middle road. This seems to have been the precise sentiment that shrouded the design, construction and unveiling of Calgary’s
St Patrick’s Island Park
There are certain public gems in every city that, when you discover them for yourself, you become a little double-minded: on the one hand you secretly hope that nobody else ever finds it so you can selfishly enjoy it all to yourself. On the other hand you can only wonder why nobody else has discovered