First off, apologies to everyone out there for the increment between this post and last. Some epic friend adventures in Nicaragua, followed by starting med school back in Vancouver, has made it hard to sit down long enough to get all my thoughts on here. But now that I’m able to really sit down its […]

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After a long and very comfortable stint in Alberta it was finally time to hit the road again. Our stay was filled with a great deal of family time, as the Renborg side of the family had gathered from Nova Scotia and Sweden to celebrate my grandparent’s 60th wedding anniversary. As I’m sure most can […]

Read more "Climbing and Camper Life in Tieton River"

The list of places every Canadian should visit is sometimes plagued with many unfortunate clichés, like the Big Nickel in Sudbury I was forced to “experience” for 2 hours in -20 weather as a child. The Rocky Mountains are nowhere near this kind of experience. Once stepping foot into the mountains it’s very difficult to […]

Read more "Swedish Berries in the Canadian Rockies"

Having wrapped up in Wrangell St. Elias National Park our time left in Alaska was beginning to grow short. We had time for one more destination before heading south to make it back to Vancouver for our good friends Camilla and Mike’s wedding. It was decided that our last stop would be Homer, a fishing […]

Read more "Homer, Alaska: A quaint drinking village with a Subaru problem"

Coming into McCarthy, all we could think about were the epic mountains and glaciers in front of us, so we didn’t give much thought to where we were going to spend our 4th of July. After coming back from our trek (on the 3rd of July) we were surprised at the hoards of people that […]

Read more "The 4th of July on the Wild Frontier"

It’s been a long hiatus since the last post. The blog is still back in Alaska, but I’m writing this entry on the beach in the shade of a palapa many thousand kilometers south of there. The difference in settings is striking. We’re currently staying at Stoners Surf Camp in San Blas, Mexico on the […]

Read more "Wrangling the Wrangells: Part 3"

Having just been air dropped next to the Kennicott Glacier, we walked along the moraine until we found a point where we could make our way down to the icefield. Moraines are basically piles of rocks, deposited by the glacier as it flows downhill. Whenever you want to get on or off of the glacier […]

Read more "Wrangling the Wrangells: Part 2"

On our way to Thompson Pass we didn’t make many stops. So close to reaching our goal of skiing in Alaska, we pressed forward with tunnel vision for snow. However, we did notice signs for Wrangell – St Elias National Park along the way. We didn’t think much of it at the time, but during […]

Read more "Wrangling the Wrangells: Part 1"

I first started writing this post about our second day in Thompson Pass after running into a retired older couple at a gas station in Teslin, Yukon. We had previously run into this couple in the Worthington Glacier parking lot right before we were about to hike up and ski down the glacier.   They had […]

Read more "AK. Searching for snow in Thompson Pass. Part 2: Worthington Glacier"