by Brian Patton | Jul 1, 2022 | Banff National Park, hiking, Home page News, Kootenay National Park
Updated July 12 Most hiking trails in the Sunshine Meadows are still snow-covered during the first two weeks of July. Near record snow still blanketed the meadows on the Canada Day weekend. So much that the resort reopened the mountain to skiers during the July 1st...
by Brian Patton | Jul 31, 2021 | canadian rockies trail guide, hiking, Home page News, Kootenay National Park, Wildfire
Climate change has replaced cloudy skies and rainy days with forest fire smoke. The summer of 2021 is no exception. One of the problems in the early days of the Canadian Rockies Trail Guide was cloudy conditions and showers. Thanks to these unsettled conditions, it...
by Brian Patton | Jun 14, 2021 | Banff National Park, Home page News, Jasper National Park, Kootenay National Park, Mt Robson Provincial Park, Waterfalls, Yoho National Park
June and early-July is the unofficial start of the hiking season in the Mountain National Parks. With streams flowing high with spring runoff, It’s a prime time to visit some of the parks’ most spectacular and sublime waterfalls. Most of the trails to...
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...
by Brian Patton | Oct 9, 2020 | Home page News, Kootenay National Park
As Kootenay National Park celebrates its centennial year, it seems an appropriate time to republish Ron Ede’s account of a long-ago summer working on the park’s trails. I first read “Cutting trail in Kootenay Park—1940” in the “The...
by Brian Patton | Aug 31, 2020 | backpacking, canadian rockies trail guide, Home page News, Kootenay National Park
Kootenay National Park is celebrating its centennial with a “Kootenay Then and Now: Recreate the Photo” contest. Since we began our fieldwork on the Mountain Parks’ first comprehensive trail guide 50 years ago, I thought it would be appropriate to...
