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... by Brian Patton | Mar 14, 2022 | Backpacking, Banff National Park, Trip reports |
Every summer, faithful Canadian Rockies Trail Guide 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... by Brian Patton | Sep 19, 2021 | Backpacking, Banff National Park, Trip reports |
More and more backpackers are exploring Banff National Park’s Front Ranges every year, including the Dormer Pass-Panther River circuit. Mostly they enter the region on the Red Deer River, either from the headwaters at Red Deer Lakes or from the park’s... by Brian Patton | Feb 27, 2021 | Backpacking, History, 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... by Brian Patton | Nov 22, 2020 | Backpacking, Great Divide Trail, History |
Jim Thorsell began charting a route for the Great Divide Trail while completing a trail use survey for Banff and Yoho Parks in 1967. After tweaking the original route, he published the Provisional Trail Guide and Map for the Proposed Great Divide Trail in 1970. The...