Steady Brook Falls, just outside of Corner Brook, Newfoundland, takes a lovely, short hike to get to, and is also the local swimming hole: you can jump from a rock into a swirling pool just before it cascades from the gorge. The currents somehow pull you back so you don’t fall over the edge. Now, [...]

A morning spent caving in Corner Brook, Newfoundland was pretty exhilarating, so the afternoon was left for a short one-kilometre hike up Steady Brook Falls. For those willing to forge through a Newfoundland winter, Marble Mountain is, from what I hear, the only decent ski hill in the Maritimes. Before the snow starts piling up, [...]