by Brian Patton | May 8, 2023 | backpacking, canadian rockies trail guide, hiking, Home page News
For over five decades the authors of the Canadian Rockies Trail Guide have been using and recommending supplementary maps for the mountain parks. In that time, maps have evolved in both quality and coverage. Maps in guidebooks are limited at best....
by Brian Patton | Aug 6, 2022 | backpacking, Banff National Park, Home page News
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. Once again, this trip falls under the category of “Why didn’t I think of that?” Canmore...
by Brian Patton | Jul 12, 2022 | backpacking, Home page News, Jasper National Park
Mount Robson’s Berg Lake trail and Jasper’s Twintree Creek bridge washed out in 2021. That left backpackers with a truncated North Boundary Trail across the northern reaches of Jasper Park.Suddenly, there was a blossoming interest in destinations further...
by Brian Patton | Mar 14, 2022 | backpacking, Banff National Park, Home page News
Every summer, faithful contributor Jim Shipley conjures up a different trip through the Front Ranges of the Rockies. Late last summer, Jim and his companions set off on a 200-km 11-day trek that would take them from Lake Minnewanka near Banff north to Lake Abraham on...
by Brian Patton | Sep 19, 2021 | backpacking, Banff National Park, Home page News
More and more backpackers are exploring Banff National Park’s Front Ranges every year. Mostly they enter the region on the Red Deer River, either from the headwaters at Red Deer Lakes or from the park’s eastern boundary at Ya Ha Tinda Ranch. But...
by Brian Patton | Feb 27, 2021 | backpacking, Home page News, Kootenay National Park
Sometimes moving through landscape can become art. In the mid-1970s, David (aka Dale) Zieroth was working as a park naturalist in Kootenay National Park when he hiked on an overnight to Floe Lake with some of his Parks Canada colleagues. The poem that came out of that...
