Yearly Archives: 2012


8 Steps to Surviving Holiday Weight Gain

How to avoid holiday weight gain It seems to happen every holiday season. You attend parties and office gatherings to share a few festive moments with family, friends, colleagues and lots and lots of food. But when the holiday season is finally over, the bathroom scale reveals that you’ve gained […]


10 Superfoods to Help over the Holidays & Start your New Year’s Resolutions Now!

Don’t diet! Eat more of these foods With the holidays approaching, you’re either dieting now in hopes of compensating for the weight you usually gain during the festive season or you’re already wondering what post-holiday plan you’re going to adopt to whittle your waist. Intrigued??? Read more, click on the […]


Capilano University / Natural Trekking ‘Triathalon’ to the Agassiz Valley & Circle Farm Tour

[slideshow]  Saturday September 29, 2012 – Today is our ‘triathalon’ trip to Agassiz & Hicks Lake – hike, eat & shop…….a woman’s dream trip!  Our journey starts at 7:25am and even though the hour is early, the group is very sociable and animated.  Frank, our trusty driver manouvers our way through […]


Nordic Walking / Light Hiking continues……

[slideshow] Aug 21/12 – Rice Lake.  A beautiful day for a hike in the forest.  I was unable to join the group this week so Bob very kindly took the ladies to one of our favourite walking spots.  And of course, meeting at the End of the Line General Store […]


Sunset Hike / Blue Moon & Chocolate Fondue 2

SUNSET HIKE /CHOCOLATE FONDUE TOURS Full Moon / Blue Moon – A Blue Moon occurs when there are 2 Full Moons in one month.  This is a fairly rare occurrence, hence the saying ” once in a Blue Moon”.  August 31st happens to be the second Full Moon in August […]


Nordic Walking / Urban Poling through Lynn Canyon

[slideshow] Tue Aug 7, 2012 – Another lovely walk in the forest with great people and Henry, Sylvia’s gorgeous dog! The morning began with a yummy latte and one of our favorite spots – the End of the Line General Store in Lynn Valley. From here we followed the trail […]


Everest Base Camp 2013

[slideshow] Join us in April 2013 for a once in a lifetime journey to Nepal…… land of the lovely Sherpa people, the Himalayas and, of course, famous Mount Everest. Why travel to Nepal with Natural Trekking? The key to a succesful trek is good acclimatization and this cannot be rushed […]


Sunset Hike & Chocolate Fondue at Lighthouse Park

[slideshow] Saturday July 21, 2012 After 2 days of pouring rain the clouds parted and out came the sun just in time for our Sunset Hike & Chocolate Fondue.  The forest is glorious at this time of day and we arrived at the Fondue point just in time for the […]


My most interesting City Tour

Early this week I had a request to give a City Tour but with a very interesting twist!  My customer is from Asia and didn’t want the traditional tour, she wanted to visit areas that sell organic items.  Her family owns a cafe in her home city and they are looking […]