TRAVERSE of the VALHALLAS by SKI - Mulvey Basin to Shannon Creek The Valhalla traverse is the ultimate West Kootenay…
END THE PHONE-BASED CHILDHOOD NOW The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development. By Jonathan Haidt…
INSECTS Where the Trans Canada Highway penetrates the Selkirk Mountains, at Glacier, tourists now wander the trails barelegged and otherwise…
Photographer Douglas Noblet likes to suffer. In 2016, the Nelson, British Columbia native helped organize a team of skiers, including…
THE MOST AMBITIOUS SKI TRAVERSE EVER March 22, 2016 KOOTENAY MOUNTAIN CULTURE magazine When four ski mountaineers decided to travel…
The Monashees have long been considered the holy grail of the grand traverses. On May 7, 2022, Douglas Noblet, Stephen…
The longest traverse of all, it runs 320 kilometres (199 miles) along the crest of the Rocky Mountains between Jasper…
First skied in 1984, it’s very popular. The route travels through the spectacular Premier Range, follows a good line and…
If you are really ambitious, you could repeat the attempt to link all the grand traverses through the Columbia Mountains…
By Dave Quinn, Kootenay Mountain Culture Magazine We lean against the airplane windows, flying between the Kootenays and British Columbia’s…