Roadtrips

Guide to Beaches and Paddling Lakes on the Sea to Sky Highway

Guide to Beaches and Paddling Lakes on the Sea to Sky Highway

The Sea to Sky Highway linking Vancouver to Whistler and Pemberton is one of the most beautiful drives in the world. Weekend warriors load up every Friday evening and fill up the parking lots to every easily accessible lake, trail, and park along the road.…

Alaska’s Mint-Bomber Traverse with Dogs (and a Snowstorm)

Alaska’s Mint-Bomber Traverse with Dogs (and a Snowstorm)

Goldmint Trailhead to Mint Hut Deep in the Talkeetna Mountains in Alaska, a local favorite trail Hatcher Pass became world famous. Within the area, there are loads of options for hiking and exploration, but we only had a couple days, and very few days without…

How to: the Unbelievable Moraine Lake with Dogs

How to: the Unbelievable Moraine Lake with Dogs

Moraine Lake One of the most famous and busy lakes in the world, Moraine lake is iconic and was featured on our older $20 bill. I’ve taken my Vizsla Whiskey loads of times for day trips and hikes and when I got Bourbon, my new…

Guide to Hiking and Camping at Assiniboine with Dogs

Guide to Hiking and Camping at Assiniboine with Dogs

Reaching Assiniboine’s epic views involves some logistics, and planning but it isn’t very difficult. Getting there with dogs is a whole different experience! For all the right reasons, dogs are not encouraged in the park and there are loads of limitations that can take quite…

Adventure in Edziza- Hiking the Spectacular Spectrum Range

Adventure in Edziza- Hiking the Spectacular Spectrum Range

When I passed by this section of Northern BC a couple years ago, I looked at the parks nearby and made a mental note to research more for a multiday hike in the future. Just the photos of the Spectrum range alone makes one spend…

Grizzly Lake- Tombstone overnighter

Grizzly Lake- Tombstone overnighter

Camping at Yukon’s Grizzly Lake With the speed of our road trip, we didn’t have much time for backcountry adventures but we did want to do at least one overnight trip in a beautiful location (especially since we had brought our backpacks and gear). Tombstone…

Fountain Lake Camping

Fountain Lake Camping

Fountain Lake This is our 3rd yearly trip to camp at Fountain Lake as well as the first time I’m doing it without my better half sharing the driving and the tent. Fountain Lake is beyond Lillooet which is a long drive with our many…

E.C. Manning Camping

E.C. Manning Camping

View of Manning Park For our next camping adventure, we stole Whiskey’s sister Sophie and headed off to E.C. Manning with a bunch of friends. I’ve heard so much about this park and was just waiting for a good weekend to go. This was the…

My Cat’s Guardian Dog

My Cat’s Guardian Dog

We just came back from a trip to the Sunshine Coast and luckily it was a trip we could take both our cat Moo and of course, Whiskey. Moo is a rescue cat that came to us months before we got Whiskey from her breeder.…

Ovary Sparing Spay

Ovary Sparing Spay

Whiskey hours before her spay We’ve just gotten back from a trip to Kelowna for Whiskey’s spay. When we first got a dog, I didn’t realize there were several different options for spays (and for neuters), each with pros and cons. As I’m typing this,…