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Hi, we're the Vienneaus. Adventure family | hiking | travelling |
📍 Vancouver Island, BC 🇨🇦

10/29/2025

How it started vs how it ended 😅
About 7hours and 12km later we made it back to the truck! And then had to sleep in the truck behind a locked gate (check the very last pic) but was it worth it!? DEFINITELY !!

Man oh man it’s a memory I’ll cherish forever!

I love having these pictures to look back on, because in the moment there’s so many things I’m thinking about that I don’t get to soak everything in as much as I’d like. With time it’ll come but for now I’ll soak it in through the pics!!

Would you take your kids hiking in the backcountry??

3 years ago this would NEVER have been on my bingo card!

10/26/2025

Get ready to run the 11km run with me!

Don’t do this transition! You’ll have too much fun!!

Transitions aren’t my strong suit, but I had fun trying this one!!

10/18/2025

When I had to get up to p*e for the 2nd time I was met with the bright shining moon and the beautiful stars. The cold night sky took my breath away as I listened to the river and stared up into the stary sky.

📍The second campground ⛺️ on the way to landslide lake

10/17/2025

I hiked 11km with a 34lbs pack on my back, and then another 8-ish km up and around this gorgeous lake, and then camped and then hiked back 11-ish km with a 36lbs pack because I tried to help Tara lighten her pack a little.

The hike was awesome! The company was even better! And the views and memories will last a lifetime in my memories! So proud of us for showing up for ourselves, pushing through and making this hike happen!! We both went out of our comfort zones on this one, and it reminded me about that quote “Life begins outside of your comfort zone” and man oh man life is freaking good!

10/13/2025

Thankful for my supportive, amazing, kind, strong, smart, sweet, handsome husband! And for these kiddos who surprise me everyday with their capabilities!!! Noah and Adalaide hiked the entire way there and back and Wilder even hiked the last 1/4 way to the lake and snow cave! I’m so proud of these kiddos and as our hiking motto goes “if I can do it you can do it”

📍Century Sam Lake

10/01/2025

Today, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we wanted to connect more deeply with the place we now call home. We hiked the trails around Lake Helen Mackenzie and Battleship Lake, which rest on the traditional lands of the Kwakwaka’wakw Peoples, including the Wei Wai K*m First Nation, within the Comox Valley region of Strathcona Provincial Park. 🧡

We honour the children who never came home, the Survivors, and the families impacted by residential schools. Every step on this land is a reminder of the deep history and resilience of Indigenous Peoples. 🧡

🥾 9.5km loop
📍 location, read above
🧡🧡🧡

09/28/2025

Perseverance 12km trail race was great today! Love the rain, the downhill and everyone who was out on the course cheering us on and making sure we were going the right way!

It was so wonderful that my mom was able to be here to cheer me in and bring Addy with her!! Can’t wait until the next one 🤙🤙

09/27/2025

Perseverance 12km trail run! (More like 13.8 based off my watch 😂)

Beautiful rainy day to hit the trails. The elevation nearly killed me around km 5-6 but the downhill was sooo much fun! 🤩

06/22/2025

Have you ever been here?

05/18/2025

On this day last year after 8 days on the road and driving over 5700km we were waking up at our final destination of our west to east trek of our across Canada road trip!

Beautiful East Coast Sunrise 🌅

10/20/2024

Thanksgiving weekend we went to and it didn't disappoint!

The kids had a blast and LOVED the corn maze!
It was fun walking around and watching the kids pick out their own pumpkins!

Have you been to a pumpkin patch? What's your favourite part?

10/17/2024

Life has been differently lately.
It feels like it's...
School drop off, filling time, school pickup, after school activities.
Rinse and repeat.

Now that it's just me and these 2 the majority of the day, it's been fun seeing how they're taking on their new roles as well.. Addy is now the "oldest" and guiding Wilder on our adventures and Wilders just growing up so fast, keeping up right along with her.

Although Noah's loving school, has an amazing teacher and gets outside a ton (something I think is so amazing and helped in the decision in actually signing him up for school) I still feel like a part of me is missing everyday.

I've been quiet on here adjusting and figuring out the new daily dynamic and what to do to fill our days. I miss being creative and making videos, or creating with my hands but at the same time I've been so tired from a new daily schedule that when push comes to shove the IG world tends to be put on pause. But I'm hoping to figure out a way to get back on track with everything. ♥️

Anyway I hope you're doing well! I'm still here, we're still getting outside and going on adventures!

How did you adjust when your first kiddo went to school??

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