Hiking, Skiing and Snowshoeing
An attractive looking book with excellent writing and colour photos, some with the routes marked on, and good topo maps at the back of book with routes marked on in red. There is a section at the beginning on equipment, technique, etiquette and avalanche hazard and an appendix on snowshoeing on the Wapta and Columbia Icefields. Routes are described by highway starting in Waterton National Park and range up through the Rockies to the north edge of Banff National Park.
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A snowshoe up McLean Hill from Hwy. 549. We had been up Ridge trail many times before, but always as a spring tune-up. This would be our first time on snow and we guessed that the motor bike trail would translate well into a snowshoe trail. It did. The hills are manageable (not a novice trail, though) and the pine forest retains the snow well. Amazingly, the snow was more like mid-winter snow, and very often we were breaking trail through 14 inches of it.
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Warspite Lake is a great short snowshoe trip (just over 4 km return to the lake) in warm spring conditions or for a quick in and out trip on a short, cold day in December or January. There is no avalanche danger if you don’t venture beyond the lake.
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A description of North Baldy trails on snowshoe, specifically Old Mill Road and the Kananaskis Integrated Forestry Interpretive trail which enables you to make a loop. Describes snow conditions in mid March .
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A brief description of Kananaskis Village snowshoe trail. There is the option of continuing on Terrace trail. An update on the grocery and deli at the Village Centre.
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Snowshoeing two interpretive trails off Hwy. 68 in the Jumpingpound area of Kananaskis Country. Moose Creek Loop and Pine Woods Loop can be amalgamated to make a good half-day trip.
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Two snowshoe trails from West Bragg Creek that makes use of a section of the new Ranger Summit Loop that is being constructed linking Gardners Loop (formerly Loggers Loop) across the top of Ranger Hill to the Tom Snow trail.
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Description of a snowshoe trip up Eagle Hill in the Jumpingpound via Seventy Buck valley.
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The Greater Bragg Creek Trails Association has completed the first of its planned new trails at West Bragg. Congratulations! To be known as Snowshoe Hare, the new 5.4 km snowshoe trail starts and finishes at West Bragg parking lot. It has been well-signed for snowshoeing in either direction.
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A short, steep snowshoe trip to scenic but sunless Tryst Lake in the Smith-Dorrien valley. Best with snowshoes that have good grip on steep slopes. Not a beginner snowshoe.
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