Long Prairie Hills

May 21, 2010

Spring and fall hiking in the Sheep River Area. A short walk to the the first Long Prairie Hill and a visit to the Sheep River  with an option to ascend the second foothill and return via a different route.

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Kananaskis Country Trail Guide

May 18, 2010

Gillean’s Kananaskis Country Trail Guide, Volume 1, Kananaskis Valley, Smith Dorrien, Peter Lougheed Provincial Park and Elk Lakes, is now shipping and should be available in local stores. More on a formal (informal) book launch sometime in June later. Anyone whose photos we used will receive a free copy. Posted from Crete using my iPhone [...]

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Talking with Alf Skrastins

May 14, 2010

Gillean Daffern interviews Alf Skrastins about the early days of the University of Calgary Outdoor Centre, the Foothills Wilderness Journal and his contribution to the development of hiking in Kananaskis Country.

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Let’s use Powderface Creek pack trail

May 7, 2010

A lament on the lost  art of routing trails, and why we should follow the Powderface Creek pack trail to maintain the tread.

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Rocky Mountain Books Outdoors Forum

May 1, 2010

The Outdoors Forum from the old RMB site has been resurrected and is being hosted on the new RMB site using a new server and modern forum software. The most popular forums: Scrambling, Alpine Climbing and Backcountry Skiing, have been retained and a number of other more general forums added. You can access the forum by by clicking here

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Spring Hiking between Powderface & Prairie Creeks

April 26, 2010

Tired of the muddy Prairie Link Trail trail? Here are a couple of alternatives spring hikes using Prairie and Powderface Creeks that can be done as single loops or combined for a satisfying short day out.

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Looking for a Curry on the Way Home ?

April 17, 2010

Looking for a curry on the way home from Kananaskis Country? Try the Mehtab in Cochrane for some of the best East Indian food in the Calgary area. The food is delicious and includes several dishes not offered by Calgary restaurants such as Chicken Kalimirch, a creamy dish of chicken simmered in cashew paste and wine with black peppers.

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Try our New Kananaskis Outdoor Forum

April 11, 2010

We have added a Forum page, Kananaskis Outdoor Forum, to our website to build a community of Kananaskis trail users, hikers, backcountry skiers, and snowshoers, and to allow better discussion of our blog topics than the blog “comments” currently does.

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Mesa Butte loop

April 7, 2010

A spring hiking loop taking in undesignated trails up Mesa Butte and finishing with Curly Sand Trail.

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“Rogue” Trails

April 3, 2010

“Rogue trails? Why it is so important to use the right words in describing  K Country trails. The term is downright unfriendly and should be nipped in the bud  before it spreads like a virus. Is there something wrong with the word “undesignated”?

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