by Brian Patton | Mar 6, 2024 | Home page News, Kootenay National Park |
In 2020, Kootenay National Park marked its centennial. We published several postings that year celebrating the park’s backcountry past. We called for submissions for more photos from the park’s past. John Cuddeford, who worked on Kootenay Park’s... by Brian Patton | Oct 18, 2023 | Backpacking, Kootenay National Park, Trip reports, Yoho National Park |
Kootenay Park’s Ottertail Pass trail is a route frequently ignored by backpackers bound for the Rockwall. Because the pass is wooded and of little scenic interest, we barely mentioned the trail in early editions of our trail guide. Back in January, we received a... by Brian Patton | Jul 1, 2022 | Banff National Park, Kootenay National Park, Weather |
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 | History, 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, Jasper National Park, Kootenay National Park, Mount Robson Provincial Park, Yoho National Park |
June and early-July is the unofficial start of the hiking season and an excellent to time head out on the best Canadian Rockies waterfall hikes as streams are flowing high with spring runoff. Most of the hiking trails to waterfalls in the Canadian Rockies are fairly... 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...