by Brian Patton | Jun 1, 2023 | Backpacking, Banff National Park |
As the coauthor of a venerable trail guide to the Canadian Rockies, people are always asking me: “What is your favourite trail?” My usual bemused response is: “The last time I hiked when the weather was good and the trail uncrowded.”But... by Brian Patton | May 8, 2023 | Backpacking, Canadian Rockies Trail Guide, History, Maps |
Maps in guidebooks are limited at best. Throughout the history of the Canadian Rockies Trail Guide, the book’s maps provided a very general impression of trail locations, points of interest, and destinations. So, right from the first edition of our trail guide, we... by Brian Patton | Sep 15, 2022 | Backpacking, Banff National Park, Trip reports |
Gavin Fitch, daughter Ellie, and companions Marco and Greg backpacked into what we consider one of the most spectacular areas of Banff National Park—the Dolomite Valley. The trip is a great way to sample the North Molar-Pipestone-Dolomite Circuit without arranging... by Brian Patton | Aug 6, 2022 | Backpacking, Banff National Park, Trip reports |
From a basecamp on Forty Mile Creek in the heart of Banff’s Sawback Range, backpackers can day hike to several, seldom-visited backcountry lakes. Canmore backpacker-photographer Zeljko Kozomara recently filed a “comment” on my... by Brian Patton | Jul 12, 2022 | Backpacking, Jasper National Park, Trip reports |
Following Mount Robson’s Berg Lake trail and Jasper National Park’s Twintree Creek bridge washouts in 2021, backpackers have been looking for North Boundary Trail alternatives. The washouts left backpackers with a truncated North Boundary Trail across the...