COLUMBIAS TRAVERSE – Linking Existing Traverses

If you are really ambitious, you could repeat the attempt to link all the grand traverses through the Columbia Mountains starting in McBride in the Northern Cariboos, and ending in Kimberly in the East Kootenay. This complete traverse was skied by Dan Clarke and Chris Gooliaff in 1998. The duo made it most of the way but failed because they were unable to force a way through the Monashee Range to link the Southern Cariboos with the Northern Selkirks. Despite this, the 700 kilometres (435 miles) they did traverse over 61 days set the stage for today’s modern explorers, most notably Douglas Noblet and Stephen Senecal from the Kootenays.