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| Our family crushing adventure together in the Canadian Rockies |
Most summer weekends you'll find us hiking, scrambling and climbing mountains, as well as camping across Alberta and BC. Our family goal is usually 15+ mountains that we'll climb as a family per summer.
We’ve also taken our son backpacking since he was very young and we continue to make wilderness trips a priority in both summer and winter.
Mountain biking is another big family passion and you'll often find the three of us floating down a river on our stand up paddleboards.
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| We love mountain biking as a family! |
Mountain biking is another big family passion and you'll often find the three of us floating down a river on our stand up paddleboards.
In the winter, we love both cross-country skiing and downhill skiing along with the occasional winter hike or snowshoeing adventure.
No matter the season, we're outside and enjoying our beautiful backyard in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
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| We get out into the backcountry year round for adventures |
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Wow, very nice place Calgary! Hope your son will be healthily grown up.
ReplyDeleteThanks Shuichi. I hope you can come visit Calgary and the Canadian Rockies some day.
DeleteI have enjoyed your blog! Many great posts. I spend a few weeks every year with our boys in the Rockies, but as of yet have not been quite as adventurous as you with kids. Working up to it.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Glad you like my writing. Let me know if you need any suggestions for your next visit here.
DeleteStopping by as I work on the "Support Your Outdoor Bloggers" post. Thanks for getting us all organized and including me! Hope you're having a fun summer.
ReplyDeleteI stumbled upon your blog and love it. We are from Calgary but now live overseas. We have two children ourselves and will most definitely keep your link for future visits home so we can head into the outdoors. You're a trooper!
ReplyDeleteThanks Marzena.
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DeleteHi! I am mom to a 13 yr old son who I have been taking hiking, camping etc with just the two of us since he was six, and with three of us from before that. I have spring itchy feet but not enough time tomorrow to go out to Kananaskis or Banff, and found your blog while looking for more information on hikes within Calgary. I wanted to say thanks for the postings, and do please keep it up!
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Hi! I am mom to a 13 yr old son who I have been taking camping, hiking, etc with just the two of us since he was six, and with three of us from before that. I was looking for more information on hikes within Calgary to satisfy my spring itchings and found your blog - it's great, thanks, and definitely do keep it up!
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Hi Erika. I'm glad you found my blog. I'll be writing about camping all summer long. We have a lot of trips planned! You can also follow my friend Ken's blog. He has older kids around the age of 12 I believe and writes about hiking with them in the Can. Rockies. He plans trips to for older school aged kids out of CORA. http://www.biggreyrocks.com/
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Really enjoying your blog, thanks for creating it! I've been hiking with my daughter in the Rockies since she was a baby, but only get out a couple of times a year. She is seven now and I find myself with more time (recently sold my business), and this summer I plan to get her out far more! Yesterday opened our season and we did Grassi Lakes, Ribbon Creek, Troll Falls and Grotto Canyon in two days. This has been a fabulous resource and I'm sure it will continue to be. Thanks again!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot! Hope you enjoyed those hikes. They are favs. of ours for sure.
DeleteWow, I am just loving this blog... you are a very inspiring family!! Such exciting adventures you've done. I truly love how you include your child in things that many families wouldn't ever think possible. What an incredible gift you are giving to him by being active in the rockies!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Sharon.
DeleteHey there! Stumbled across your site when looking for Canadian Rockies with kids through Google (I am based in the UK). It's mega expensive for us to get over to Canada so we are saving up but hope to do a self drive through the rockies with our kids in the next year or so. Just looking in to routes and places to stay to try and calculate a budget.
ReplyDeleteWe also love camping but won't be able to take all our gear with us. If you know of any campsites on the main tourist routes where they have ready build up tents you can stay I would love to hear about them please :) If fact any places you can recommend that are reasonably priced and great for "outdoorsy" families would be appreciated. My contact email is jackie_griffiths@live.co.uk
Thanks Jackie, I'll email you.
DeleteThank you for your writing. I am so happy that I find people who are in the same situation as me and my husband are right now. We used to go out a lot and hike and camp but after we've had our sons, one is 4 and the other one is 2 years old, we had to slow down a lot and we didn't know where to go so they would be able to have fun and in the same time we would do the same things that we used to. We have gone hiking a few times in Kananaskis and the last long weekend we went out camping in Penticton but we didn't know that there are so many possibilities until I came across your website. We just came back from Europe a few months ago and I have this idea in mind, as I have heard some of my friends over there talking about it, of creating a camp for families who like to go up in the mountains and hike and camp...and so on. The camp would be not only for kids but for families and kids together and I was thinking of talking with somebody that would have more insight about the trails and camping sites in the Rockies. Could you maybe email me if you are interested in talking a little bit more about this? my email is:mrlardta@gmail.com
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ReplyDeleteThanks for leaving your comment and i'm glad you've found my blog useful. We were just in Penticton last week. Love it there. There are many camps here dedicated to families and kids together I think. Many of them are church Bible camps but the YMCA also does camps I think. Just do a google search for local camps and see if they do family camps.
But it's a great idea.
For my family, we usually book group campgrounds and go with friends, gathering groups of up to 10 families. It works well and we get to choose who we camp with. We generally choose families who all have kids in the same age range and are from my Outdoor playgroup community that I run.
We are heading your way in a week to camp at Jasper and Banff National Parks. We are bringing 2 families with 4 kids 4 and under. It's gonna be dirty but fun. Thank you for all of your wonderful insider information!
ReplyDeletethanks and let me know what you end up doing. I'm always eager to hear trip reports from families who've tried new things in the parks.
DeleteWow really enjoyed reading your blogs and tips, we are a UK family with 3 children (8,6 and 4) who are moving to Calgary this July for 2-3 years. We love adventures in the mountains in the UK and family skiing holidays and can't wait to explore Alberta, your website is very inspiring through all the hard work of packing and organising visas! Thanks Jennie x
ReplyDeleteThanks for your kind comments.
DeleteSo many places yet to try! What a great summary.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much!
DeleteI'm from Edmonton and you're making me want to move to Calgary! :p Just found your blog today and I'm loving it!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Karlie. Glad you found me!
DeleteI see that you use a child carrier is some photos, do you have one that you recommend over others for a heavier toddler?
ReplyDeleteWe just used the Little Life child carrier and it seemed to work well. I had a very heavy child myself.
DeleteAwesome, thank you! I will have to look it up, not happy with the MEC one we currently have.
DeleteDo you have a child carrier that you would recommend for heavier toddlers?
ReplyDeleteHi Tanya, great blog! I have been reading your site as we now have a little son and have been doing some hikes in Canmore this week. I just figured out I know you. I am Paul, son of Roy and Donna from GP and we still see your dad often. Thanks for posting all this, we found the stroller friendly info particularly helpful. Hope you are doing good.
ReplyDeleteHi Paul! I definitely remember you. I'm glad you found my blog and that it's been useful for you. I need to get more posts up about stroller friendly hikes.
DeleteI stumbled on your blog looking for info about Hai Ling (I’m planning a sofa to summit training program for myself and my son-16). We used to do trips with an Alpine Club that allowed kids under 18 on hikes, but then we moved to Alberta. I don’t like going alone with him. I don’t want to be ‘that’ unprepared person the SAR have to pluck out of the backcountry. I want to go with people we can learn from and maybe even make new friends. Do you know of any groups out of Calgary that allow kids his age on trips?
DeleteHi Louise,
DeleteI believe the Alpine Club of Canada here does allow 16 year olds on trips, but I could be wrong. You'd have to check with the local chapter. Other than that, I'm afraid I don't have many suggestions. My son is so much younger at 9, so any trips I plan usually have younger kids - and your son wouldn't make any friends. He'd be a great big brother/buddy to the younger boys but that might not be what he's looking for. If you want to email me though I can add you to my summit list and when we go out, you can always choose trips that might have some older kids coming. We do have tweens and teens along on occasion. My email is koob dot tanya at gmail dot com .
Also Louise, I'd suggest checking out some of the local Facebook groups such as the Hike Alberta group. Post on there that you're looking for active families with teenagers.
DeleteYou guys are Rockstar, please don't stop and keep blogging. Your descriptions and details are always spot on. I don't have to google anymore. I am following your blogs for past 4- 5 years and always comes to this site whenever we want to find something about rocky mountain adventures. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteHi thanks for your blog and the amazing pictures. We used this on our BC/Alberta road trip. We weren't able to find the rope swing in Revelstoke however. Do you have any tips for finding it? Thanks in advance!
ReplyDeleteWhen we were in Revelstoke last year we easily found the swing but maybe it’s been taken down. From the boat launch we paddled back in the direction of town hugging the near shoreline. It was about a 20 minute paddle down the lake at most.
DeleteNice blog! Very informative. My sons and I will be flying to Alberta and BC this august. Would you know of trails and tracks where MTB rental is available close by? Thanks! Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteMelanie
Hi Melanie,
DeletePlease email me at koob.tanya@gmail.com and I'll get you all of that information. Thanks.