Walking/Hiking

Urban Poling: Week 3 done already and going great!

There is a saying about time flying when you’re having fun. I must be  having fun because three weeks have gone by very quickly!  My first class teaching urban poling since my instructor certification was three week ago. My “students” are all members of Pembina Active Living (55+) in my end of town. Twelve participants […]

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Urban poling: One of the best forms of fitness for older adults

My first attempt at urban poling My first experience at urban poling was not a good one. As I am writing this post, I can almost relive the day, full of embarrassment. It was the middle of summer and had done my research and bought my the poles I wanted. I had practiced in my […]

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Mexico: Hiking the Sierra Madre in Los Ayala

Today was an unexpected bit of pleasure. We met Robin’s friends in Guayabitos for lunch a few days ago and they told us that each Friday, a group of people go on a 10 km hike from Los Ayala, over the Sierra Madre mountains to a town called El Monteón. We decided to join the group. I […]

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Visiting Regina – on purpose

We went to Regina last weekend to visit Subhadra in her Corrections Officer training program at the RCMP depot. I quite enjoy a prairie drive with the endless big open skies and the fields of wheat, flax, sunflowers, soybean and all the other crops that keeps us and much of the world fed.  Before I […]

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Slipping in a hike in Banff

This was a busy month for birthdays Breen on August 8, Zaman on August 9/10 (started on Aug 9 and was actually born on Aug 10) , Ronin on August 13 and Sunita on August 14. So happy birthday to each of you.  Since Zaman turned 60, it was cause for a big celebration so I […]

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Pembina Valley Hike

This was a perfect day to go on a Manitoba hike and that’s exactly what I did. We went with our Prairie Pathfinders group of about 50 people in total with Wendy and Leone as our lead guides.  Robin and I left home at about 10:30am and arrived at the Pembina Valley Provincial Park (after […]

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China: Great Wall at Jiankou

I started this day in a state of anticipation and excitement. I was hoping to do a hike on the Great Wall but was not sure I would have the time while I was in Beijing. I did a search for companies who did tours and finally settled on +Beijing Hikers about a month ago and […]

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Tanzania: Temperatures at various elevations

What can we expect on the mountain in terms of +Kilimanjaro weather forecast? We’ll start out at about 30C (87F). As we start to ascend, it will get progressively colder roughly 1 degree C for each 500 metres upwards. The forecast for the 8 days that we’ll be up there is somewhere in the range […]

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Tanzania: Learning to tie my laces; malaria meds; water purification

I belong to the About Walking listserve and there was a great article on how to tie my laces to prevent heel slippage. I have a narrow heel and small ankles but a wider foot at the front so since I will be doing 40km of downhill walking on the trek, it would be a good […]

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TransCanada Trail, Winnipeg – Part 9: Bunn’s Creek, Chief Peguis Trail

Distance: 8.1 kms TransCanada Trail map TransCanada Trail – the one we walked This was our last part of the trail but it’s taken us a while to do because Sharm was away on August 4 and she was staying with us on August 11 because they were selling their house and had an open […]

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