Lightning Lakes Chain Trail takes you past a series of lakes, each with names related to thunder storms; Lightening Lake, Flash Lake, Strike Lake and Thunder Lake. Then on the way back, you’ll go past a Rainbow bridge. We visited in the rain, so although we did see plenty of soggy weather and clouds, we didn’t actually see any of the thunder or lightning these lakes are named for. Thank goodness. One thing you learn quickly if you like hiking…
Mount Fuji is the most climbed mountain in the world and it is on many people’s bucket lists. If you are heading to Japan in the summer, and you like a challenge, why not give this super-star-level famous mountain a try!? There is a famous proverb in Japanese about Mount Fuji: 富士山に登らぬ馬鹿、二度登る馬鹿。Most people translate this as “a wise man climbs Mount Fuji once, only a fool would climb it twice.” I have climbed it twice, so officially this makes me…
Squee! I am going to share another amaaaazing walk near Vancouver – Coliseum Mountain. This might be the most epic walk so far! There was a long hike before the start, several hours of steep climbing followed by some epic scrambling up to the top. Coliseum Mountain is also the biggest faker of a mountain. There are so many views that look like they are the peak from below. I thought we’d reached the summit at least six times before…