Kananaskis Country Trail Guide Volume 1
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With over 100,000 copies of the previous editions sold, Gillean Daffern’s bestselling hiking guides to Kananaskis Country have been completely revised and updated. As the pre-eminent expert on the area, the author continues to offer something for every level of outdoor enthusiast, be they novice or experienced hikers, scramblers or backpackers. Gillean’s clear and detailed text, enhanced with colour photos and maps, enables everyone to navigate safely through this complex and beautiful area.
Each new volume includes exciting and previously unpublished trails and routes and full-colour photographs throughout do justice to the spectacular scenery of the Canadian Rockies.
The previous two volumes have been extended into five exhaustively researched books:
- Vol 1. Kananaskis Valley, Smith-Dorrien, Kananaskis Lakes, Elk Lakes
- Vol 2. Jumpingpound, West Bragg, Elbow
- Vol 3. Ghost, Bow Valley, Spray
- Vol 4. Sheep, MvLean Creek
- Vol 5. Flat Creek, Highwood, Cataract, Willow Creek, Livingstone
Gillean has been writing and publishing bestselling trail guides to Kananaskis Country for over 30 years, ever since the dawn of K Country in 1977. She was exploring the area well before then, too, so she knows it intimately and in every season of the year. She also travels to mountain areas outside of Kananaskis Country, and in particular enjoys visiting countries off the beaten tourist path. Gillean is the founder of Rocky Mountain Books and, along with her husband, Tony, was awarded the Banff Mountain Festival’s Summit of Excellence Award in 2006.
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I love this new volume of the book! I hadn’t seen it at MEC yet, so was glad to find it at The Second Story in Canmore. The maps are great, colour photos add a lot, and I like all the trail ‘options’. Very detailed
Does anyone know by any chance, if one could head up to Mount Allan (from Ribbon, trip 24) and connect down to Fisera Ridge (trip 23B) as a loop? I’m thinking one might be able to skirt across at approximately 2,500m elevation.
I don’t imagine you are getting many sales of this book as it doesn’t appear to be available anywhere.
Whenever I ask , staff try and sell me one of Gillean’s many other hiking guides.
I’ve been looking for the latest edition of this book for a couple days now and just stumbled onto your post. I looked for the guide last night at mec in Calgary without any luck. And I’m curious why it’s not available on Amazon.ca directly from Amazon; Only through resellers. My third edition from 96 is really starting to show its age and I’d like to replace it before returning to Northover at the end of summer.
Scott; it would appear that Amazon Canada does not keep thebook in stock, but relies on the publisher to ship it from their warehouse. Makes some sense as Amazon saves on warehousing and the publisher doesn’t have to worry about Amazon having enough stock.
We recently purchased Volume 1 of the new series at the bookstore in Lake Louise (The Viewpoint). The photos, maps and detail are great. We look forward to the rest of the volumes as they come out
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