Ed Beamish’s annual overnight back pack trip into Cairn’s cabin was again a great success. Cairn’s Cabin is located in Riding Mountain National Park 15 kilometers down the Ochre River Trail. This trail winds it’s way north easterly from it’s trail head about 15 minutes north of Clear Lake on # 10 highway, working its [...]
This year’s backpack trip out west turned out to be a very interesting, challenging and exciting trip. This does not surprise us as it was organized and led by Eldon Schmitz. Eldon is a long time and very experienced member of the club and his backpack trips are looked forward to every year by all [...]
October 5, a perfect day for a hike to Bald Hill. Twelve Hikers met at Elkhorn Ranch for a hearty breakfast. The hikers being, our leader, Jim Wilkie, Alf Stanley, Glena Francoeur, Marlyn Markortoff, Kim Smith, Bekta, Fred Goods, Roger Winger, Verne Kachkowski, and Norma Janis and Sherry Gates, Jackie Lennon. We met at the [...]
15 Members rendezvoused at Whistlers Campground just south of Jasper on Saturday August 30/03. On Sunday most of us hiked Whistler’s Trail to the top of the Jasper Tramway, we encountered some curious marmots and some not so curious picas. Maureen and Jackie opted for horseback riding at Jasper Park Lodge. On Monday we split [...]
At the planning meeting it sounded like a good idea, when someone said, lets do a backpack in Spruce Woods Park on August 16 and 17. I agreed it would be a good warm up trip for those members going to the mountains the first week in September. Little did I know just how much [...]