Albertan ski girl
Angel Diva
So my darling SO and I decided to take the preteen DS and DD for their first real backpacking trip this summer. In the last week of August, we packed ourselves up, took along two friends and three other preteens, and hiked in 11 km to the alpine club of Canada's Elk Lakes hut in BC. We parked the car in peter lougheed provincial park in Alberta, crossed the continental divide, and ended up in British Columbia. We stayed three days, and hiked back out. It was wonderful! All of the kids were troopers, we had an amazing time at the hut, ran in (and out) beautiful glacial lakes, and spent a lot of time hiking and eating smores. Yay!!!
Next up: we're going to do this trip in winter on snowshoes.