Canmore Alberta Real Estate Agents, Richard Greaves & Darcy Chilton with REMAX Alpine Realty

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It’s becoming a tradition in our family that sometime after Christmas we grab our skis and snowshoes and head into the back-country for a couple of days to relax, unwind and enjoy a winter camping experience with a few other local families in one of the Alpine Club of Canada’s back country huts.  Last year we chose a fairly easy trip and stayed at Wheeler Hut for a couple of nights last March.  This year we decided to kick it up a notch and see how the kids would handle a 12km ski up over a mountain pass and into a hut.  On January 9th my two boys and myself stuffed a back pack each full of clothes, food and sleeping bags and headed from Canmore to the Lower Kananaskis Lakes to start our trip into Elk Lake cabins with four other Canmore families.  My wife decided that she’d let the boys and myself go by ourselves this year (I think she just wanted to spend some time by herself after a busy Christmas at home with the three of us). Read the rest of this entry »