If you are looking for some motivation to put foot to pavement, pathway or wilderness route, then watch my CTV Morning Segment on Starting Your Walking Habit! So much to see while on foot in Calgary and beyond in Southern Alberta.
Watch my segment on CTV Calgary Morning
Join me this Spring through Fall of a series of FREE guided walkabouts! I have teamed up with MEC Calgary to lead a unique urban walkabout a month. You can register on-line at MEC Calgary.
April 30: Book signing and mini-walk: Indigo Signal Hill: 3-5 pm
May 7: Book Signing at MEC Calgary: 12-1:30 pm
May 8: Jane’s Walk: Elbow River Communities: 10-11:30 am
May 11: Blossom Trek: MEC, Mount Royal and Mission: 6-7:30 pm
June 8: Cafe & Ice Cream Walkabout: East Village, River Walk and Bridgeland: 6-7:30 pm
July 13: Burn of the mini-donuts: Stampede recovery walk on Nose Hill: 6-7:30 pm
September 7: Quirky Neighbourhoods: Roxboro- Ramsay: 6-7:30 pm
October 5: Fall Colours on the Jackrabbit Trail, Glenmore Reservoir: 6-7:30 pm
Find more about my book and learn about my FREE walkabouts and book signings at www.calgarysbestwalks.ca.
For info on all guided walks and mountain hikes check www.fitfrog.ca
My CTV segment yesterday featured a fantastic urban walkabout around the Glenmore Reservoir. The complete map is in my book, Calgary’s Best Walks, and offers lots of options to get off the paved regional pathway and into the single track trail system in the Weaslehead and other hidden wilderness trails.
Lake O’Hara, Yoho National Park, BC
I took CTV viewers snowshoeing on my latest segment. Watch the segment here!
If you want to know more about where to snowshoe, maps and trails, check out my post on where to snowshoe in and around Calgary. And for more info on snowshoeing, where to rent, what to bring, take a read of my snowshoe page on this website.
Snowshoeing is great exercise, just like walking but slower, in spectacular terrain. It is a wonderful family activity (bring the crazy carpets and the shovels for snow caves). It is a wonderful, FREE, outing that refreshes the mind and the body.
I took CTV viewers to Confederation Park this week for a winter walkabout along the paved pathway system. The route in my book continues into the neighbourhoods of Mount Pleasant and Capital Hill where hungry walkers can make a tasty pit stop at Edelwiess German Cafe and store and at Weeds Capuccino.
Walked the rolling Jackrabbit Trail along the Glenmore Reservoir this week on CTV morning. Kids love this rolling single track trek and for those needing a nature break, this is the ticket! This is route 25 in Calgary’s Best Walks. Just follow the map!
If you want some tips on how to dress for winter walkabout, check out my CTV segment.
Key points
1. Layer up: Temperatures change rapidly in Calgary. With many layers you can adjust your temperature.
2. Get a pair of traction devices for your shoes or boots. Post-Chinook Calgary can be VERY slippery. Traction devices will keep you upright and injury free.
3. Down is your friend at -20 or below. A long down jacket will keep your butt warm. This is really important (in my opinion)
Now get out there and enjoy some winter walks. How about at Glenbow Ranch Pronvincial Park, photo below. It is route number 1 in my guidebook, Calgary’s Best Walks.
Got a moose carwash on the way to our snowshoe in the Spray Lakes area of the Kananaskis yesterday. The car was licked clean, well, sort of. It was a wonderful wintery and slightly weird day!
Christmas Lights Walks!
I shared the Elbow Park, Upper Mount Royal, Stanley Park route from Calgary’s Best Walks on CTV Morning today.
Go winter, oh yeah!
Follow this link to see the CTV segment. Join me for a guided Christmas Lights Walk, following the route I shared today, next Tuesday, Dec. 7 at 6:30. If you purchase a copy of my book, you some on the walk for FREE! (or you get a gift certificate to come on another Winter Urban Walkabout another time)
Details on the calendar page.
