Come Walk With Us on the Trans Canada Trail (TCT)

Come Walk With Us #Hike4Birds on the TCT Over the past few weeks, since the publication of an article in Reader’s Digest Our Canada   magazine   about our #Hike4Birds we have gotten a lot of emails from people asking whether we are on the Trans Canada Trail , where we are in the Arctic and how we are doing.  We want to thank everyone for their concern and curiosity.   While many have wondered if we simply were not posting due yet to the lack of WIFI connectivity in the Arctic others have speculated that perhaps we had quit our coast to coast to coast trek altogether. Unfortunately, the answer isn’t as simple as either of these answers. Atlantic to Pacific, 2019-2022 As you know, on November 22, 2022 we arrived at Clover Point in Victoria and officially concluded the 14,000 km long Atlantic to Pacific portion of the Great Trail. In 2023, we had planned to hike from Fort Saskatchewan Alberta, north through British Columbia, the Yukon, and into the Arctic to get t...

While we have a great deal to still share about our ongoing adventure across Canada we thought we would also post about something new - the Bruce Trail.    Long before we set out onto the Great Trail or onto the Camino Frances to Santiago we set out onto the famous Bruce Trail in Ontario.   The Bruce Trail is 890 km in length tracing the Niagara Escarpment from Queenston Heights to Tobermory.   It is where our love of long-distance hiking began, where we completed our first thru hike, and where we learned so much about backpacking.   Trekked from 2014-2022 it took us nearly 10 years to complete the Bruce Trail in a series of day hikes, organized end-to-end events, and an educational thru-hike of the Peninsula Section. To be honest, when we took those first tentative steps onto the Bruce Trail we had no idea what we were doing, carrying a 4-person tent that weighed 12 lbs, enough outfits to have clean clothes for a week, and 12 days of food for 3 people.  ...