Hiking, Exploring, Travel & Adventure
Posted on June 28, 2017 by Sheri @trail2peaktheadventurouspath
Tinkered with and perfected over the years, these are the BEST adventure fuel going. They even taste great, frozen, on a winter snow shoe adventure. They’re spicy and dense and have just the right amount of chocolate. You can conquer anything with these cookies in your belly. Trust me on this.
1 c. butter
1 c. brown sugar
1 c. white sugar
2 eggs
1½ c. flour
½ t. baking soda
1/4 t. salt
2 t. cinnamon
1 t. allspice
1 t. ginger
3/4 t. cloves
½ t. nutmeg
3 c. oats
1 c. chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 375F.
Cream butter in large mixing bowl. Add sugars and beat until light & fluffy. Add eggs & beat well. In another bowl, mix flour, baking soda, salt, spices & rolled oats & blend well. Stir dry ingredients into creamed mixture, then stir in chocolate chips. Drop by the tablespoonful onto cookie sheets, spacing 2″ apart. Bake at 375 until golden, but still soft in the middle, about 8 minutes. Allow to cool on the cookie sheet 5 minutes, then remove to a cooling rack to finish cooling.
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Where do we get our information and inspiration? Come check out the resources we use & recommend for exploring the Canadian Rockies.
Eventually I will post about each of these:
Guinn’s Pass
Buller Passes Circuit
Mount Allan + Centennial Ridge
Windtower
Cirque Peak
Iceline
Wenkchemna Pass
Mount Edith and Cory Passes
Wasootch Ridge
Heart Mountain Circuit
Aylmer Lookout
Old Goat Glacier
Sparrowhawk Tarns
Anything at Lake O’Hara
Tent Ridge
Trekking up a mountain’s shoulder, hiking through a flowering alpine meadow, snowshoeing through a dense pine forest, or taking in the 360 degree views from a ridge top vantage point make me feel alive. The experiences in these places give me a profound sense of space and place.
Travel does a similar thing, pushing me out of my comfort zone, exposing me to new experiences, new people and new ways of thinking; it also gives me that sense of space and place in this world.
I believe that life is lived in the contrasts: when you experience simplicity and complexity and life's ups and downs, whether they be physically in this world or mentally in your own personal inner landscape, you know that you are truly living.