Annual Hikers Gathering
🏕️ What This Event Is All About
Each year, we reserve a massive group campground in Bow Valley Provincial Park, split the cost, and create our own little weekend hiking village. 🏔️
Daytime is completely free-form — choose your own adventures, hikes, lazy mornings, or explorations. ☀️🥾
Evenings? That's when the magic happens. We all gather around a roaring communal campfire for stories, laughter, and reconnecting under the stars. 🔥🌌
✨ The Vibe We're Going For
This isn't a corporate retreat with a packed agenda and a facilitator. It's a group of friends, an organic and unstructured weekend — and you are the vibe. 💛 There's no program to follow and no one performing; the gathering is whatever the people who show up make of it.
A few things we do on purpose to protect that spirit:
- Friday's potluck is the icebreaker. 🍲 Sharing food is the easiest way in, so newcomers get a relaxed chance to meet the tribe before the weekend really gets going.
- Everything is optional. The Saturday social hike and the potluck are invitations, not obligations — no pressure, and no competition with whatever else you'd rather do. We're just offering options; vibe the way you want. 🌿
- Small and beautiful, not one big monolith. Rather than herding everyone into a single circle, we set things up so smaller clusters form naturally — tables pulled close to the fire, a second firepit going, room to drift between them. 🔥 If you're on the shyer side, you should never feel like you're giving a speech to a crowd.
- Friday tends to be the bigger night. It's organic and we don't engineer it, but the energy usually peaks around the Friday potluck and fire. By Saturday things are slower — folks are tired from the day's adventures and tend to turn in earlier. 🌙
📸 Photo Albums from Previous Years
Curious what it actually looks like? A picture's worth a thousand campfire stories: 🔥
📚 Dig Deeper
Everything you need to know before joining, split into a couple of focused reads: