Adventures in the outdoors
Christmas was a little different for us this year and I couldn’t be happier! It has been a very long time since we have ‘come home’ to Newfoundland for Christmas. Although we have been living in Ontario for almost twenty years now, Dan and I are both from The Rock and although we’ve been home for summer vacation almost every year since moving away, this is our first time home for the holidays.
Continue reading “Mummers – Newfoundland Traditions”
Have you ever winter camped in a yurt?
Last year I convinced my crew to go winter camping in a yurt at Algonquin Provincial Park during the new year celebrations. This year we did a repeat and spent 3 nights at Mew Lake. I will give you some tips and tricks on how to enjoy winter camping in a yurt and a little bit of what it is like during this time of year.
The past few years we have gone camping in Arrowhead Provincial Park on the Thanksgiving weekend to catch the fall colors. This year we knew the colors were not the best, so we decided to do something a little different. For Thanksgiving this year, we headed to Lake Placid in New York State. We have been here twice before, but the timing was lining up nicely with the fall color reports for the area.
Continue reading “Hiking a High Peak (Thanksgiving Weekend Trip Part 1)”
This years fall colors in Algonquin Provincial Park hit peak early, and I mean weeks early. We have been watching the fall color report closely, and we just happened to have a weekend open just when they were due to hit peak. I checked on the Ontario Parks reservation system and was lucky to find ONE site open for Saturday so I booked it immediately.