{"id":230,"date":"2021-03-07T17:35:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-07T17:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevenlatino.ca\/?p=230"},"modified":"2021-03-07T17:35:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T17:35:31","slug":"the-first-time-i-went-camping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenlatino.ca\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"The First Time I Went Camping"},"content":{"rendered":"

23 years. That\u2019s how long it took before I went camping for the first time. My first foray into sleeping in a temporary nylon home in the outdoors was both an experience I would have never expected and one that I will never forget. It was late April 2016 and I found myself in the Canadian Rockies for the first time also. That particular trip was full of many firsts and I\u2019ll always look back on it fondly. It changed me forever. <\/p>\n

I was on that trip with an old friend of mine and after a few days spent in Banff, we trekked up north to Jasper and were in complete awe the whole time we drove on the Icefields Parkway. Upon arriving in Jasper we hurriedly rushed to the Parks Canada office to get some recommendations for where to sleep that night! We both expected and wanted to hike into a backcountry site and it was soon decided that we would camp at Jacques Lake by Jasper\u2019s Queen Elizabeth Range. I guess I always thought my first time camping would have been of a much different variety (i.e. car camping!). But I never would have imagined that my first time would have me lugging in all of my gear on my back while hiking more than 12 km to a pristine site nestled by an emerald-hued lake. <\/p>\n

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Beaver Lake. PC: Stephanie Kennedy<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Home for the night. Jacques Lake, AB<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n