Jessica Geerligs

"Hiking Jess" blog: https://hikingjess.wordpress.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/my.outdoorlife/

Bio: I am a true Southern Albertan, born and raised. My life revolves around children. I spend my days working within the walls of a school. When people ask my age I always hesitate since it always changes. I know my age in comparison to my husband and two children, so today I am 33.

Favourite Music: Anything that makes me want to move, from oldies to the current top-100. My children have been known to belt out Bif Naked's “ I Love Myself Today” while hiking.

Comfort Food: I am a steak and potatoes kind of gal. A baked potato is my all time favourite food.

How I Wash Away Stress: I curl up with a good book and a cup of tea or glass of white wine in front of our wood-burning fireplace.

Favourite View In All My Travels: Hawaii was amazing with beaches, volcanos and the ocean right outside our door! But the Canadian rocky mountains are something that I can view out my window and makes me want to explore everyday. Waterton will always be my favourite place; it carries memories, breathtaking views and amazing people.

Cherished Childhood Memory: I grew up along the Old Man River in Southern Alberta. Our whole life was looking for wildlife and exploring the natural prairie that surrounded us. I was lucky to have a brother and sister that took me along; playing on the hillsides, avoiding cactus, scoping out rattle snakes, searching for beavers in the Old Man River, swimming in the ditch and drinking from our fresh underground stream.

Dream Retirement: Constantly exploring by living and moving from one little remote place to another.

Advice I Would Give To People Looking To Travel: Stop talking about exploring our magnificent world and start today! We can find adventures close to home. I find many people seem to want to explore in far off corners of the world. That is great but I think that it's easy to skip what we have close by and take the local wonders for granted.

Fat Biking Adventures

We made our way out to Castle Mountain ski resort for a day of boarding for the kids.

They headed off so Vince and I wandered around planning on getting our stuff for snowshoeing.

As we were wandering around we were checking out all the demos; mostly of skis and some snowboards. We stopped and eyed the fat bikes, at that moment we must have been like little kids.

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Dog Sledding: What is it all about?

It started out as a surprise outing.

I had not planned or looked up anything about the tour; I had no idea what to expect.

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Top 10 Things To Do In Waterton

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Jess breaks down her 10 favourite winter activities in Waterton Lakes National Park.

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Akamina Parkway

Today the girl and I took the morning to enjoy our favourite places and leisurely explore.

I had heard rumours that the Akamina parkway was back open in Waterton.

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Winter In Waterton: Just Get Up And Go!

So today was supposed to start out as a sleep in, not leaving the house kind of day.

I had the day off of work and some how magical planets aligned and my hubby did not have to work either.

Somewhere along the line mountains and sunrise were mentioned and my plans changed.

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