Our summer trip this year is focused around a family cruise to Alaska. However, for Jennifer and myself, we needed a little more activity to start the trip. Amazingly, our 43rd country is actually Canada. For all our travels, Jennifer and myself have not been to Canada together. We remedied that with a four day stop at Whistler mountain to get in some hiking. Ten years earlier, when we were newlyweds, we hiked through the Alps for nearly a month straight. The thought of taking a gondola to the top of the mountain would have been met with laughter. We were purists that had to walk every step. Ten years later, we were happy to ride the Whistler Express and the Peak Express to the start of our hike on the High Note Trail. It was also the site of our first photo shoots with the Inuksuk, a large stone cairn used by the Inuit and other artic region natives. We hiked on the trail, a black diamond for hiking and quickly were humbled by how much we’ve lost our hiking legs. Once past a steep, rocky decline, the trail leveled off to a more enjoyable grade. Wildflowers and random […]