Looking for a fantastic hike with a tiny fraction of the crowds that descend on Lake Louise and Moraine Lake? Look no further than Healy Pass. Look, Banff is well beyond a hidden gem or secret – it’s basically Disneyland for people that love the mountains. Instead of mickey ears and white Nikes, you get…
After hiking this trail for a second time on our latest trip to Banff, we were hiking back along the shore of Lake Louise when the question of what the best hike around Lake Louise came up. I, Matt, asked Alysha which trail – the Plain of Six Glaciers trail or the Lake Agnes and…
Despite growing up in the Seattle area, I (Matt here!) had never really explored the hiking trails in the state I grew up in until relatively recently. By the time I was into hiking, which is all thanks to Alysha who was essentially born with a backpack on, I had moved down to California with…
Lush, fern-filled rainforest gives way to a fertile green valley with a river winding through it, surrounded by tall, rocky peaks with waterfalls running from their tops to the valley floor hundreds of feet below. Plus, a rustic chalet built almost a century ago (in the early 1930’s) that is extremely photogenic. Where can you…
The Burroughs Mountain Trail in Mount Rainier National Park is full of never ending views, which puts it in our top tier of hikes in the park. At first, you get a clear view of Mount Rainier while you traverse Sourdough Ridge, then it disappears behind the burroughs while you ascend the first burroughs (we’ll…
While there are many, many amazing hikes in Mount Rainier National Park, few of them offer as good a payoff-to-effort ratio as the Naches Peak Loop. Located at Chinook Pass just east of Mount Rainier, this hike gives you a trio of amazing characteristics: blankets of multicolored wildflowers in the summer, spectacular views of Mount…