Inside Wonderland, Calgary’s Best Walks Art Walk
Summer wildflowers on Pocaterra Ridge Hike, Highwood Pass, Kananaskis Rockies
Nose Hill Park, Calgary
The Winter walks and snowshoe treks have begun! They continue until March 13 so check out the calendar of events and be sure to follow me on FACEBOOK and INSTAGRAM for all outings and also, for ideas on where to walk and snowshoe in Calgary and the Rockies!
Check out our Winter 2018 newsletter!
‘Tis the season to burn off some cookies and wine with a festive urban Christmas Lights Walks. Check out my segment on CTV for some ideas of where to walk, and then grab my book, Calgary’s Best Walks, for the maps and routes!
Watch my CTV Christmas Lights Walks Segment!
Mark your calendars for Dec. 13, 2017 at 6:30 pm! I am celebrating the end of the successful Walk 150 initiative with a 6+ km Christmas Lights Walk through Mount Royal and Elbow Park, followed by a party at the Alexander Calhoun Library! Come one, come all!
I took CTV Morning Calgary viewers on some spectacular Fall Kananaskis Rockies hikes that are perfect for families, visiting relatives and more adventurous avid hikers! And we talked about bear awareness- check it out. And for more regular updates on all this walking and hiking, follow me on Facebook @calgarysbestwalks
Watch my CTV segment here
Trailhead for both hikes: Highwood Pass Parking Lot, Hwy. 40, Kananaskis
Check out the visuals from Ptarmigan Cirque (4.5 km round trip + 250 meters elevation, interpretive hike). Perfect for kids, visiting family, or new hikers) and
Pocaterra Ridge (12+ km and 700 meters elevation with an option to do a linear ridge walk, two cars needed or a good hitch hiking thumb, or an out and back hike) no signage, need the Gemtrek maps). These two Kananaskis hikes are larch filled and get your above treeline for phenomenal views.
Learn about the FREE BEAR AWARENESS SESSIONS at MEC (Mountain Equipment Co-op)
It is berry season so bear awareness is important! Make noise, yell YOOOOO BEARRRRR! as loud as you can, often when no other people noise is being made. Bear bells ARE NOT loud enough to warn bears, give a false sense of security and just annoy all your fellow hiking pals. FREE bear awareness sessions happen MEC all September so check their calendar of events. The more you know the better!
Check out the many wonderful Club Fit Frog city walks, Rockies Hikes and snowshoe Days and FREE Walk 150 city walks with Calgary Library on the calendar page.
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The Fall Session starts on August 27 and runs until December 16. Come on out and learn about all the fantastic areas in to walk and hike in Calgary the the neighbouring Kananaskis, Banff and Kootenay Rockies.
Want to have a day of wilderness calm to balance out your Canada Day celebrations? How about some spectacular wildflowers hikes in the Kananaskis? Or an urban walk through the Beltline, Mount Royal and into Roxboro/ Erlton natural park, followed by an Elbow River stroll through Lindsay park. Check out my CTV segment from June 28, 2017 for some ideas!
Watch my CTV SEGMENT: Long Weekend Hikes and Walks
And here are the Gemtrek maps you’ll need to find Cox Hill and Grass Pass (The mountain hikes in my segment). Find them at MEC or Maptown in Calgary. For the city walk, you’ll need my book Calgary’s Best Walks. Try the Roxboro- Ramsay route or the Stanley Park- Mount Royal route (or mix them up and make a new route!)
Here’s some of the shots I have taken in the past three weeks while hiking in Calgary, The Elbow Valley, Sibbald, Jumpingpound and the Highwood (all covered in the maps and my book above)
June 3, 2017: About 100 people joined me on a phenomenal, 7-8 km Walk 150 walkabout today from the central Calgary Public Library. The goal of Walk 150 is the welcome everyone to join in and connect communities, and with a special emphasis on welcoming newcomers. Today our feature language was Mandarin and there were SO MANY newcomers who came along with the staff and interpreter from Centre for Newcomers – must have been 35 people! So great!
We walked from the Central library past the Bow Building, up Centre Street to Mount Pleasant. Checked out public art en route, and then dropped into Bridgland, along the Bow River to Saint Patrick’s Island and then along the wonderful East Village, Riverwalk. A mix of three routes from my book, Calgary’s Best Walks– The Bridgeland route, The INglewood Route and the McHugh Bluffs route.
Join me on Wednesday for the next Walk 150 walk- 6:30 at Nicholls Family Library. Feature language is Amharic from Ethiopia. Inside scoop… the walk is fully booked, so just show up!
Thanks to Calgary Foundation for supporting Walk 150 through the Community Fund for Canada’s 150th Anniversary of Confederation and for Calgary Public Library Foundation for their partnership!
Yup, it’s working, we are building communities through walking!
READ ABOUT THE WALK 150 WALKS!
For all the updates, be sure to follow @calgarybestwalks on Facebook! Free Walk 150 Walks continue all of 2017- check the Calgary Library for Walk 150 walks!
May 13: Check out my Facebook post on the May 13, Walk 150 walk. Feature language was Arabic!
May 22: And my Facebook post on May 22, the walk in the Weaslhead. Feature language was Tagalog!
May 31 Walk 150 Walk from Louise Riley Library. Feature language was Mandarin!
June 3 Walk 150 walk from Central Library. 100 people! Feature language was Mandarin!
