Adventure Planning Made Simple
Adventure should feel exciting — not overwhelming. Whether you’re planning a multi-day backpacking trek, a paddling trip through remote canyons, or your next unforgettable destination, this site is designed to help you plan smarter so you can travel with confidence.
Start by choosing an adventure below. Each guide brings together trail-tested advice, practical planning tools, and real-world experience to help you spend less time researching — and more time exploring.
Choose an Adventure
Backpacking Basics
Build confidence on the trail with practical skills, gear advice, and planning tips for multi-day adventures.
Free Planning Tools
Planning an adventure takes more than choosing a trail. These free tools are designed to make the research and planning a little easier, so you can spend more time looking forward to the adventure.
Backpacking Planner
A printable planner to organize your trail research, logistics, meals, gear and other trip details in one place. Plan everything before you go, so the important details don’t get lost along the way.
Laugavegur Toolkit
Free resources to make planning Iceland’s Laugavegur Trail a little easier. Includes practical tools for packing, transportation, budgeting and getting started with your trail research.
Day Hikes Around the World
From prairie hoodoos to Hawaiian ridge lines and Baltic sea cliffs, these day hikes deliver big scenery in a single, memorable outing.
Complete Trail Planning — Without the Hours of Research
Big adventures take hours of research. These trail-specific planners do the research for you—so you can spend less time figuring out logistics and more time looking forward to the trail.
- 3- & 4-day sample itineraries
- Campground & hut logistics
- Shuttles & transportation options
- Fimmvörðuháls: skip it, 1 day or 2?
- Meal planning & trail-specific packing list
- Permits, booking & check-in logistics
- Campground vs. lodge planning
- Mule, helicopter & transportation options
- 4-day itineraries + Confluence planning
- Meal planning & trail-specific packing list
Planning a trail I haven’t done yet?
Get Custom Done-For-You Trail Research
Get the same completed planner researched for your chosen hike.
Tell me which trail you’re planning, and I’ll research the permits, campsites, transportation, water, accommodations, daily route logistics and other trip-critical details and fill the planner in for you.
Who We Are
We plan the trips. We chase the adventure. We share what we learn.
We’re the Dunlops, a Saskatchewan family who loves building trips around outdoor adventure—whether that means backpacking a multi-day trail, paddling somewhere new, tackling a challenging day hike or exploring a destination beyond the usual highlights.
Carpe Diem Home and Abroad grew out of the way we already travel: researching the logistics, figuring out what actually matters, getting out there—and learning a few things the hard way along the way.
Here you’ll find firsthand adventure guides, practical planning advice and resources designed to make your own adventures easier to plan. Learn more about us.
