It’s easy to be a great hiker when you’re 35. Your hips are supple; your knees don’t creak and if you do happen to fall, you bounce. When you reach your mid-50s, somehow your balance isn’t what it once was and those hills—how did they become so steep? With so many baby boomers hitting the…
Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America’s Hopeful Landscape Bill McKibben 2005 Crown Journeys, a division of Random House, Inc. 160 pages Long an environmental hero of mine, Bill McKibben didn’t let me down with Wandering Home, his book about walking. Authored by Bill McKibbon as part of a series called the…
It was Saturday. The sky was clear and blue. The air cool. The sun warm and getting warmer. It was time to go hiking in Mexico. Setting out from our house in the central part of a gorgeous Mexican town named Patzcuaro, we climbed up to the lookout of Volcan de Estribo Grande and then…
Walking Britain End to End When I Walk, I Bounce: Walking from Land’s End to John o’Groats Mark Moxon, self published, 2014 Softcover, 236 pages For me, the best way to ruin a great hike is to put a heavy pack on my back. I’m good carrying about 7kg, but after that I get grumpy. As…
What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim: A Midlife Misadventure on Spain’s Camino de Santiago de Compostela Jane Christmas Greystone Books, Vancouver, 2007, 295 pages What the Psychic Told the Pilgrim, Jane Christmas’s entertaining and oftentimes humorous tale of her experience walking Spain’s famed Camino de Santiago de Compostela in 2004, proves that if you…
Overview When asked to name my favourite hike, my standard response is: “The one I’m currently hiking.” Hardly original, but safe—and usually true. That being said, the hikes I find most memorable are those that test me to the point where I wonder if I would have hiked the route if I knew what I…
On Trails: An Exploration reminds me of a path that passes through deep, luscious forests only to pop out onto rich open farm fields after somewhat grudgingly following sidewalks within towns and villages. Along the way, it struggles across stretches of flatlands; though I recognize that what is monotonous to me may be rich territory…
A 2014 Toronto Life article compared Caledon to the Hamptons, that collection of tony mansions on Long Island’s east end. “Like the Hamptons,” the author wrote, “Caledon is not so much a town as an evocation of a fantasy – a mythological place that exists primarily in people’s imaginations.” Born and raised in Caledon,…
From elegant outhouses to zip lines, frocks to ice cream, and hovels to mansions, a day hike in Mexico plays on all of your senses and then some. Without knowing what to expect, we headed out under sparkling skies and warm temperatures last Sunday to Zirahuen, a small town about 15k away, that sits on…
For anyone who has enjoyed some of my stories about hiking in Mexico’s Sierra Norte, here are the facts so you could do it yourselves some time. 1.Where to get information about hiking in the Sierra Norte? Visit Expediciones Sierra Norte at Expediciones Sierra Norte. This is the English version of the website. 2. Do…
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