August is the Sunday of Months and to beat the end-of Summer blues, I’m reliving the hike the family and I did on our Summer vacation camping on Vancouver Island. Check out our hike on my blog, The Mountain Goat. 

A great place to take older kids who can carry their own clothes and food, is Semaphore Lakes, near Pemberton, B.C. It’s a similar set up to Garabaldi Lake, wherein you hike in, set up base camp and then do day hikes to the peaks around. We’ve hiked into this area twice - once with each other and another time with our then 2-year-old daughter and then 5-year-old cocker spaniel. Check out both trips on my blog, The Mountain Goat.

Having two small children hasn’t stopped my husband and I from backpack camping and hiking. Last summer, we took our daughters, then 6 and 2.5, to Cheakamus Lake, near Whistler, B.C. for an easy hiking and camping adventure. Check out our weekend on my blog, The Mountain Goat.

One of my most favourite hikes I’ve done is to Tenquille Lake, near Pemberton, B.C. My husband and I hiked it late in the season and since it was a cooler and wetter summer, we were rewarded with alpine wildflowers and no bugs. Check out our experience on my blog, The Mountain Goat.

Hiking season is in full swing here on the West Coast. It’s been almost a year since I hiked the West Coast Trail. Read how I did over 75 km in a series I wrote on my blog, The Mountain Goat.

I had a big milestone birthday on Friday, July 12, 2019. Check out how I celebrated it on my blog, The Mountain Goat.