by Brian Patton | May 27, 2014 | hiking
Groundhog Day? You don’t have to ask the groundhog, or his mountain cousin cousin the hoary marmot, about the arrival of spring in the Canadian Rockies. You can always bet on at least six more weeks of winter. I consider spring has arrived when the snowpack reaches...
by Brian Patton | May 18, 2014 | hiking, Jasper National Park
There aren’t many places you can hike on dry trail at this time of year. But if you find yourself in Jasper, the lowest community in the mountain parks (1060m/3,480ft), you can get a jump on the season by hiking around the townsite on the Discovery Trail. The...
