About
The start of a hike in the Mount Robson area of BC
Leigh is addicted to adventure travel, bike tours, hiking and walking tours, culturally interesting vacations and the odd wildly epic day. Her weakness is sharing tales and helping others engage in the joy of adventure travel on bike, foot, skis, kayak etc in lands near and far. She has over 3 decades of travel experience which includes trips to 50 countries, all of Canada’s 10 provinces (and the Yukon and Northwest Territories) and most of the states in America. She has lived in Ontario, Nova Scotia, Alberta, enjoyed a ten year frenetic outdoor interlude in Boulder, Colorado and is now in British Columbia.
Of course combining her love of the outdoors with a rare talent for cooking means that most adventure travel (when she has a say in the menu planning) end up being gourmet adventures as well. Strangely enough university degrees in geology and dietetics have coalesced to the natural state of adventure travel advisor with a taste healthy culinary delights paired nicely with wine.
She has planned and partaken in innumerable trips for just her and her husband, for her family of four (from knee highs to grown adults) and for her group of friends. With so many trips planned and executed she has become very intuitive and efficient about where to go, what to do and what to take. Interspersed with the self guided trips she has indulged in commercial trips and has become an expert in reading between the lines.
We are therefore confident that our research and posting of detailed adventure travel itineraries will appeal to you for a number of reasons.
- the huge amount of time you will save researching
- the level of detail
- quality of the information
Specifically we offer itineraries which include noteworthy accommodation whether it be amazing, bad or nondescript, interesting and/or scenic trails or routes, cultural considerations including wineries, museums or gardens worth visiting, restaurant suggestions where possible or applicable, menu ideas for backpacking trips, detailed packing lists and any other relevant material that can take a lot of time to research. For example will your cell phone work? , are there ATM’s? , what will the weather be like? , how far in advance should I book?… you get the picture. But of course if you have thoughts and comments we’d love to hear your feedback!
Perhaps it is a statement of the obvious but every trip itinerary available on this website has been personally hiked and/or biked by Leigh. At great peril of overstatement, we have listed a number of Leigh’s adventures below in vague chronological order just to give you an idea that this gal has done a few things and has a wealth of personal experience to draw on. Don’t be intimidated as Leigh’s mission is to get us everyday folk out having adventures. You will be surprised how straightforward these trips can become!
- Bike Tour in Vietnam from Hanoi to Ho Chi Min City
- Bike Tour which included 2000 kms of cycling from Iringa, Tanzania to Victoria Falls, Zambia as part of the Tour d’Afrique
- Yachted in the Galapagos + explored and biked in Ecuador
- Adventure travel through Namibia
- Climbed Mount Kiliminjaro
- Climbed Mount Rainier, Washington
- Backpacked the Chilkoot Trail (British Columbia/Alaska), the Rockwall Trail in the Kootenays, Canada + numerous trails in Colorado and British Columbia
- Canoed the Thelon River in the Northwest Territories
- Hiking tour of the Howe Sound Crest Trail near Vancouver, British Columbia
- Hiking tour in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado as many times as one can do in ten years
- Mountain bike tour in the Moab, Utah area including The Maze and The White Rim Trail
- Bike tour of northern Portugal
- Bike tour in Mexico from Puerto Vallarta to Colima
- Bike tour of the Dordogne and Provence areas of France
- Adventure travel backpacking remote valleys of the Cordillera Blanca in Peru
- Adventure travel in Nepal around Manaslu
- Sea kayaked in the Sea of Cortez, Baja, Mexico on many occasions
- Sea kayaked Rangiroa, Tahaiti
- Sea kayak trip in Belize
- Numerous sea kayak trips on the west coast and inland waterways of Vancouver Island
- Kayaked the Bowron Lakes loop of British Columbia
- Climbed 36 peaks over 14,000 feet plus numerous peaks over 13,000 feet in Colorado
- Hiking tour of Cradle Mountain in Tasmania
- Bike tour around England and Wales
- Bike tour in Holland
- Canoed the Lake Temagami area of Ontario
- Canoed the Green River to the confluence of the Colorado River
- Kayaked the Chama River in New Mexico
- Cross country ski trips in Algonquin Park, Ontario
- More than a dozen back county ski trips to 10th Mountain Division Huts in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado
