From the best El Chaltén hikes to what to pack for Patagonia, this is everything you need to know for one week in El Chaltén, including where to stay and eat.

Visiting the Yukon has been, for years, a bucket list trip for me. Driven not only by my love for glaciers and bears (spoiler: I didn’t actually get to see either on this trip) but my personal goal to visit every Canadian Provence and territory and the Yukon was the final on that list I was elated with Yukon Wild reached out to me and invited me to explore the territory. My trip was fifteen days total - the first and last being travel days - and it was nothing like I imagined it would be, even after visiting both of Canada’s other norther territories. The landscape is vast, the mountains are tall and yet, somehow its capital city is located in a near desert climate.

For adventure enthusiasts I can’t imagine a better year-round Canadian destination, with world class surfing (wave dependant), mountain biking, hiking, trail running, sea kayaking… and more passive activities such as whale and bird watching as well as walks with coffee on a seemingly endless maze of trails that are extremely well maintained there isn’t too terribly much that you can not do in Tofino. With just shy of 2,000 permanent residents, Tofino is located on the tip of the Esowista Peninsula at the southern edge of Clayoquot Sound. It is situated in the traditional territory of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations.

The town of Jordan River, is a small settlement on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, located approximately 70 km (43 mi) west of Victoria. Originally founded as a logging camp it is now home to Vancouver Island’s second largest hydro-electric plant. The town itself is easy to miss, home to only 100 permanent residents with no cell phone service (there are a few points where you can pick up US service from the San Juan Islands across the strait). The settlement is most known among outdoor enthusiasts for winter surfing (although locals are known to be EXTRA territorial of their waves) and the Juan de Fuca trail - a 47 kilometre/ 29 mile long wilderness hiking trail located within Juan de Fuca Provincial Park.

I first set my sights on this beautiful glacial lake via the instagram pages of a handful of Vancouver based friends several years ago and knew that I needed to add it to my bucket list immediately. I am always apprehensive about sharing locations. However, with established campsites, a great reservation system, toilets readily available, ample parking at the trailhead, cell phone service for the majority of the hike in case of an emergency and regular checks from rangers (permit and safety) this hike up to Wedgemount Lake in Garibaldi Provincial Park, BC is one that I hope more people are able to experience for themselves.