Mary Swears by it.
Mary loves to hike but she hates those f***ing hills.
Find out the hikes she’s done and how she rates them.
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2020-09-18 | Road to Jasper
We decided to do a road trip with the hiking crew up to Jasper to do some hikes there. We rented an AirBnB just east of Jasper and loaded up a couple cars and left on Friday morning with the plan to do a couple short hikes along the way. Because of the many forest…
2020-08-08 | Burstall Pass
We’ve heard about Burstall Pass for many years (our climbing friend, Hugh had first tried to take us there but a winter storm turned us back…) We started out on a gloomy kind of morning that was chilly and threatening rain. We’d heard about people missing the turn and heading up to French Glacier instead…
What’s with all the f***ing flowers?
The mountains are in full bloom and we stop all the time to take pictures of them. We did a couple easy hikes to Elbow Lake and Cat Creek Falls. Mary doesn’t understand…
2020-06-12 | Mount Black Prince
With some uncertainty about whether we could avoid the rain, we headed to the Mount Black Prince parking lot and were met with a beautiful day. With only a few breaks for pics and only 1 swear on the hill going up, we met no one else on the trail. We had a couple minutes…
2019-06-08 | Bertha Falls
The plan was to go to Bertha Lake but with 25 switchbacks on the rain… No F***ING way! There was a light snow the morning we headed out to do the hike and while it had earned up, the rain made it pretty cold. This was our first time hiking Waterton after the Know fire…
2018-09-01 | Helen Lake
Mary, Vanessa and I headed out for this beautiful hike across the valley from the Bow Glacier. After the initial elevation gain there is a long stretch of amazing scenery heading to the meadow before we make it to Helen Lake. No, we didn’t do Cirque Peak. That’s too f***ing far. After we had some…
2017-06-19 | Lower Rowe Lake
Mary came to join us for one night in Waterton and we chose to hike to Rowe Lakes. Still pretty early in the season so we couldn’t do Upper Rowe Lake because there was still a lot of snow and too much f***king elevation to get up there. With a few swears (F*** I hate…
2019-09-20 | Larch Valley
We all took the day off to make our first time going to Larch Valley. Mary and I have done most of the way to Larch on 2 separate occasions in the spring but got distracted by the sound of the avalanches and always veered off to do Eiffel Lake instead. We arrived at the…
2019-09-27 | Lake O’Hara
We were very lucky that a friend had 3 tickets for the Lake O’Hara bus but couldn’t use them. We all took the day off and made our way to meet the 8am bus. We hiked part way around Lake O’Hara and then started our first up along Lake Oesa Trail. We passed Lake Victoria,…
Who’s Mary?
We’ve known Mary for a very long time. She loves to hike but she hates those f***ing hills. We try to hike a lot in our backyard (Canadian Rockies, Kananaskis Country, Waterton…) After we’ve finished a hike Mary will usually say “That was pretty good! Only 2 swears!” We love Mary. But boy can she…
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