Cesar's Blog

  Floe Lake, BC If you want to put your legs to the test, then you should run this multi-day trail in one go... and then hope you can still walk next day ! Stefan texted me a few days before to suggest a trail run for the weekend, of course I said yes without asking too many details about the adventure.  55kms with 2,800mts of elevation !! bang that's all. We met at 6:30 in the Painting Pots trail head (that means leaving Calgary at 4:30 am). Nicki shuttle us to the South part of the trail (Floe Lake) and we took off from there.  The crew was Stefan, his friend Dave, Daisy and me. The weather was good and overcasted to keep us cool. I haven't done this trail before, but usually people hike this over 3-5 days point to point.  The first 10k will take you to this magical, beautiful, gorgeous lake "Floe Lake" wow, what a view, in fact as soon as I saw it I told myself "I have to camp here with Nicholas". After a quick stop waiting for Daisy we continued on the c...

  What a weekend @!! if there is one common theme this year it is called "Adventure". Wow what a trooper these kids are, we have been pushing the limits and with that we have been able to bond and grow as friends and family, I feel blessed. Following Andy's suggestion we booked a night at Ottertail (Mcarthur Creek backcountry campground in Yoho, BC). The trail head is just passed the town of Field to the left. Andy took his kids 15 years ago and told me that from what he can remember it was an easy trail where I could pull the chariot with my bike and had a great camping night. The trail is 16km one way, with 450mts of elevation gain. There was only 1km of downhill at around the 7km mark. We convinced Maria to join us this time, and the kids were supper excited that mom was coming too! We left home really late (like around 11.30am), it was a hot day and we started biking at around 1:30 since it took us 2 hours drive.... With the temperature at around 30c we were sweating ...