A Travel Blog by Katie Chavez
Wondering what is the best fall hike in Banff National Park? In my opinion it is the Larch Valley hike including Sentinel Pass. Make sure you don’t miss this Moraine Lake hike in fall! It was during my third visit to the Canadian Rockies that I finally got to experience a mountain autumn. I had […] Read more…
Have you heard of Field, BC? It’s a perfect little mountain town in the Canadian Rockies that you should definitely visit, with much less tourists than Banff. Read on to find out more! My need to live in the mountains has been growing more and more as time progresses. It was never something I thought […] Read more…
Have you heard of Quadra Island, BC? If you haven’t – you are in for a treat, because this island is amazing, and under the radar for tourism. Read on to find out more about beautiful Quadra Island on Canada’s West Coast… After our positive experience on Denman Island, we were excited to explore another […] Read more…
I have spoken in detail before on this blog about my love for Vancouver, here and here and here. So I really don’t need to bore you all by confessing my undying love for this city again. What I will say is that after living in Vancouver for five months in 2009/2010 and visiting another […] Read more…
The Crypt Lake hike is a well-known day trail in the often overlooked Waterton Lakes National Park, located in Alberta, Canada. It is a difficult 17km return trail that gradually climbs over 700 metres in elevation. This trail is the most well-known of the Waterton hikes because it involves a bit of an obstacle course – […] Read more…
Two years people! Who knew?! I certainly didn’t think I would still be travelling now. In fact, when I left Sydney to do a one year trip two years ago, the plan was to be living back in New Zealand now – pretty much settled and working a regular job. Thank God plans changed. Don’t […] Read more…
This month has been a lot more settled than last month, when I seemed to be in a different place every night, but still a pretty busy month none-the-less. Month Seventeen began with a couple more days in Vancouver, where I fit in a bike around the Stanley Park seawall, a wander around my favourite […] Read more…
Month Sixteen was a month full of travel and eating – and man did I pay for it! With so many highlights for this month and very little lowlights, it has been one of my favourite travel months to date. I wish every month was like this one (well, except for blowing my budget). I […] Read more…
You can’t always predict when you are about to embark on an adventure that will leave a lasting impression on your life. Before I did the two day return hike and scramble up to the Abbot Pass hut in Yoho National Park, I definitely didn’t know it would turn out to be the most challenging […] Read more…
You don’t always get the chance to spend a lot of time in the places you travel to. Some places you only get to scratch the surface. That’s just the nature of travel. Revelstoke was one of those places for me. I only got a taster. But it tasted good. Revelstoke is a scenic mountain […] Read more…