Tramp through snowy woods on a sparkling winter morning. See otters slide down an icy riverbank. Sip hot chocolate by a frozen waterfall glistening in the sun. Feel cool snow shaken from trees melt on your face. Laugh at chickadees pecking morsels from your hand. Leave tracks across a frozen lake. Chomp an icicle. Spot a moose knobby-knee-deep in snow.
Unleash your inner coureurs de bois (wood runner) and strap on your all-terrain winter shoes. They’re a quintessentially Canadian mode of winter travel that open the great untracked wilderness to beginners and pros alike. If you can walk, you can snowshoe. Go for an hour or a week. Tackle a mountain and savor the grand view from the summit. Stomp amid dwarf alpine trees coddled in snowy white parkas. Follow a tranquil country trail through a covered bridge or along an abandoned railway line. Take up snowshoe racing.
Head out on a full-moon hike; finish up by dipping strawberries into a chocolate fondue around a trailside bonfire. Return rosy-faced to warm your muscles in a hot tub. Slip into a sleeping bag in your hut or yurt or get cozy in a luxury lodge beneath the showy Northern Lights.
