Friday night found me on Cypress Mountain with two girlfriends, taking a snowshoe tour through the forest to a cheese and chocolate fondue. If that sounds like too many good things together, it is. Snowshoes. Mountains. Girlfriends. Cheese fondue. Chocolate. Yep. It was awesome. It was also exactly what I needed at the end of […]
Cypress Mountain Snowshoe Tour
Last week, I had the opportunity to join several other Healthy Family Expo blog ambassadors at Cypress Mountain for a private snowshoe tour. I think I spent most of January counting down the days to the tour. I haven’t been snowshoeing since I was a teen and I was so excited to get up into […]
Downhill Skiing at Nakiska
After Christmas, my husband and I went downhill skiing at Nakiska Mountain Resort with my brothers (who were both snowboarding). Between pregnancies and babies too young to leave with grandparents, I go skiing about once every three years. I decided this was the year and we’d better hit the hill. We had a lovely sunny day […]
A Day at Lake Louise
Cold wind drove icy snow into our faces as the chairlift rose above the trees and carried us to the top of the Lake Louise Ski Hill. My husband, brother and I stumbled off the chair, slid down the slope to the map, and stared up at the lines and dots, searching for the green […]
Girlfriends’ Getaway
I don’t remember whose idea it first was, but all three of us agreed it was a good one. We picked three days between when we finished our final exams and started our summer jobs, and planned to head to Jasper to celebrate the end of our first year of university. Then it snowed. A […]
