Tips & Advice
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Q&A: Healthy Alcohol Consumption
I hear mixed messages about alcohol consumption. Can you please distill the current research? Read More
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Q&A With Kirk: How Mountain Trek Evolved to Offer Flow Hiking
In this Q&A article series, Mountain Trek’s program creator and director, Kirkland Shave, answers health and hiking-related questions from previous retreat guests. Q: A friend of mine returned from Mountain Trek this fall and said you are no longer Nordic Fitness Trekking. I’m wondering why that changed and what is Flow Hiking? A: After 20+… Read More
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How Hiking Helps Your Mental Health
The next time someone tells you to “take a hike”, thank them for the suggestion and action their words as quickly as possible. Physically speaking, we should hike as it is an excellent form of exercise with many well-known benefits: improved cardiovascular health, strength, and stability, to name just a few. What this polite individual… Read More
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Essential Guide To Work-Life Balance
If you could gain two extra hours every day, how would you spend this newly-found bonus time? Would you commit to a morning meditation practice? Would you pursue a creative passion project? Or would you focus on developing and maintaining deeper connections and relationships with those you love? There are many permutations, but it would… Read More
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How To Build Healthy Habits in 6 Steps
Sustainable, balanced health doesn’t come by yo-yo-ing between the latest diets and health fads. It is found by integrating specific actions that over time habituate into a naturally healthy lifestyle. Lifestyle Habits are like a heavy flywheel Lifestyles take a lot of energy to get going, but once moving, they are hard to stop. This… Read More
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The 747 Formula
This article is an excerpt from our full article on How To Offset The Carbon Footprint Of Your Flights, and shares only the equation to do so. The 747 Formula We’ve created the “7-4-7” formula (yes, a pun on the Boeing 747) to help you offset the carbon footprint of your travel. The formula, which… Read More
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How Long Does It Take To Recover From Burnout
Are you burned out? Or perhaps exhausted, fatigued, or just tired? What’s the difference and does it even matter? It can be tough to tell these conditions apart, as the symptoms overlap greatly, and even easier to brush off burnout as just feeling tired or in need of a vacation, but it’s important to stop… Read More
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How To Offset The Carbon Footprint Of Your Flights
Humans have an insatiable curiosity — that’s one of many things that makes our species so special. However, the advent of highly-accessible air travel, where it often takes less than a day and $1,000 to place your body on the literal opposite side of the world, has quickly become the largest—by a vast margin—contribution individuals… Read More
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BEST KOOTENAY HIKES | MOUNTAIN TREK’S STAFF PICKS
One of the key features of the Mountain Trek experience is hiking in nature. Our beautiful lodge in Ainsworth, British Columbia, is surrounded by the majestic, snow-capped peaks of the Purcell and Selkirk Mountain ranges. The area is replete with ghost towns, mossy trails, and clear-flowing streams that feed the stunning, 100-kilometer long Kootenay Lake. So as… Read More
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A Saturday in Nelson, British Columbia
While you’ve traveled to beautiful British Columbia to experience our award-winning program and otherworldly hiking trails, Nelson, a little bohemian town located just 45 minutes away from the Mountain Trek lodge, is well worth a visit before, or after, your stay with us. Also known as “The Queen City,” Nelson boasts an impressive collection of… Read More