Island Turns and Tours is the follow-up winter supplement to Philip Stone’s acclaimed guide to the Vancouver Island mountains - ‘Island Alpine’. Turns and Tours covers the best backcountry ski and snowboard destinations on Vancouver Island, highlighting Strathcona Park, along with information for snowshoeing and spring hiking.
A comprehensive guidebook to the best areas for backcountry skiing and snowboarding on Vancouver Island. The book includes information on how to plan a backcountry skiing and snowboarding trip and what to expect from each of the trips included in the book. It also includes access information and detailed route descriptions and has an index, a glossary, 200 photographs, and 36 maps. The book has 220 pages. To maximize the enjoyment of backcountry skiing and snowboarding on Vancouver Island, this book should be used in conjunction with the guidebook Island Alpine: A Guide to the Mountains of Strathcona Park and Vancouver Island by the same author.
Island Alpine Select describes in detail the alpine scrambles, rock and ice climbing routes on 70 of Vancouver Island’s finest mountain peaks. With rich, high resolution photographs, topographical maps, detailed access & route descriptions along with select images from some of the Island’s classic climbs, Island Alpine Select digital edition is an indispensable resource for Island alpinists.
Coastal Hikes describes in detail over a dozen hiking expeditions on the wilderness Pacific coast of North America. The guidebook includes west coast hiking trails: Olympic National Park WA., Juan de Fuca Marine Trail, West Coast Trail, Sunshine Coast Trail, Wild Side Trail - Flores Island, Hesquiat Peninsula, Nootka Island Trail, Tatchu Peninsula - Rugged Point, Brooks Peninsula, Cape Scott Lighthouse, the new North Coast Nahwitti Trail and Naikoon Provincial Park in Haida Gwaii - Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. There are over 200 photographs and detailed maps illustrating the hikes.
A 476-page comprehensive guidebook with 550 photographs and 21 maps to summer and winter climbing, ice climbing, ski touring, hiking, and backpacking on Vancouver Island. The book is based on the explorations and research of Vancouver Island's mountains by the author over a period of 15 years and by other mountaineers over many years. The book is a companion to the guidebook Island Turns & Tours: Backcountry Skiing and Snowboarding Strathcona Park and Vancouver Island by the same author.
Island Alpine Select describes in detail the alpine scrambles, rock and ice climbing routes on 70 of Vancouver Island’s finest mountain peaks. With rich, high resolution photographs, topographical maps, detailed access & route descriptions along with select images from some of the Island’s classic climbs, Island Alpine Select digital edition is an indispensable resource for Island alpinists.
Island Alpine is the first comprehensive guidebook to the mountains of Vancouver Island and Strathcona Park. Featuring over 275 Island peaks, clearly illustrated by more than 550 photographs showing hiking, scrambling and climbing routes - Island Alpine is the long awaited Island hiker’s and mountaineer’s bible.
When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now Parks Canada, has been at the center of important debates about the place of nature in Canadian nationhood and relationships between Canada s diverse ecosystems and its communities."
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