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We publish unique guidebooks—intelligent, entertaining, opinionated—that ensure you make the most of your
precious time outdoors.
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Recent Posts
Winter Is Optional
In the Canadian Rockies, winter is a malicious brute. And here he is again, barging back into our lives, obviously intending to stay a while and rough everybody up. For the next week, the forecasted high temperatures in Canmore and Banff are a...
Bear Safety Tips
Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis), also known as a Silvertip If the terms “Bear Safety Tips” or “Bear Safety” grab your attention, you’re no doubt wondering how to ensure your safety when hiking in bear country. Like most people, the b...
Leki Trekking Poles
As guidebook authors logging up to 1,000 miles each summer, we began using Leki trekking poles way back when poles were a rarity on North American trails. Having never seen poles, other hikers frequently commented on them. Each assumed his quip was o...
Bicycle Cuba
We just returned from the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival this weekend. One of the vendor booths was for an international travel company selling spectacularly expensive, guided, group tours. Their brochure, full of colour photos of entic...
See you Saturday, November 7
We (Craig & Kathy) will be at the Banff Mountain Book Festival, Saturday, November 7, noon to 2pm. We’ll be signing books at the Second Story Books booth. No purchase required. Stop by and say hello. We’d enjoy meeting you....
Outdoor gear shops, wake up!
Because we publish hiking guidebooks, whenever we enter an outdoor gear shop we notice if it carries guidebooks. If it does, we always take a few minutes to examine how the books are merchandised. We just visited Yeti, an outdoor gear shop in Montre...
