Hi. I’m Claudia Bastien!

I’m a French-Canadian, Indigenous woman who loves the outdoors and aspires to inspire others to venture into the outdoors safely.

I was born and raised in Ontario, and now in Vancouver, British Columbia.

In 2018, I turned to the outdoors to heal myself from mental and physical ailments. After only a handful of overnight backpacking and hiking trips, I quickly felt the positive effect and fell in love with hiking. I found that wandering and exploring the outdoors through hiking, and mountaineering did incredibly positive things for my mental health. Since then I have been avidly hiking and recently getting into more advanced mountaineering objectives, right here in British Columbia.

What began with simply sharing my adventures and journeys through Instagram has developed into a full-blown passion to not only share the highlights of my adventures but also everything else. The before, the after, the in-between. The good, the bad. The dirty and the clean.

All hiking and mountaineering require some level of understanding and perpetration, and I’m here to share what I have learned so others can learn from both my successes and my many failures.

Here we go!