explor8ion.com

My name is Vern Dewit. I moved to Calgary, Alberta (Canada) in 1999 and since then I've fallen in love with the spectacular scenery and grand vistas that open up as you scramble up above treeline on a beautiful fall morning, or make your first cast on some back country stream as the sun throws its golden warmth on surrounding peaks. I hope that my trip reports and pictures will inspire you to push your own physical limits whatever those may be. You may be inspired to try scrambling - a sport where you climb mountains via non-technical ascent routes - or you may simply realize what's in your own backyard and go for a short hike somewhere.

Canada is the most beautiful country on earth, let's get out there and enjoy it. As always, make sure you know what you're doing! Many of the scrambles, canoe trips and backpacking excursions that I describe on my site involve back country navigation and other wilderness survival skills. Read the trip reports carefully and if you have any questions don't hesitate to send me an email.

Check out my tweets at http://twitter.com/verndewit! ^*new!

My site has one goal; namely to get you out from behind your computer and into the great outdoors as fast and as safely as possible. Explor8ion.com is a site dedicated to hiking, scrambling, fishing, biking, canoeing and just about anything else I happen to get interested in over the course of my lifetime! My main focus recently has been in the Canadian Rocky Mountains in and around Alberta, Canada.

Why should you create an account on explor8ion.com?

Creating an account will allow you to comment on any of my trip reports. That way if you see an error, or experience something different than I did (maybe a new trail or whatever), you can point this out. Eventually I plan on starting a web forum and letting people post pictures as addendums to my trips as well (i.e. you may have a great shot of a Grizzly from a hike to the Skoki area that you wish to share).

If you only want to browse around and plan your own trips, don't bother with an account, it's just another password to remember (or forget)!

For the best viewing experience.

Explor8ion.com is best viewed in either Google Chrome or a Mozilla browser. It will also display in Explorer and other browsers but has not been optimized for those. (Sorry but I'm a Mac user... ;-))

Other stuff

At your own risk, you can check out some of my ramblings on my blog, but like I said, this is soley at your own risk! Another area that I'm passionate about is my photography. I offer a few tips in a short section on photography. I hope to expand this section over time. You should also check out the links page for a world of information on all kinds of trips done by my friends in the Canadian Rockies.