A Hiker’s Guide to Scrambling Safely
Can$14.95
Author - Tom Morin
Unroped scrambling over so-called easy terrain is one of the most potentially dangerous recreational activities. Every year, scramblers are injured or killed in preventable accidents. A Hiker’s Guide to Scrambling Safely educates new scramblers in the inherent risks, required climbing skills and mountain knowledge required for safety in the mountains.
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Barkerville
Can$14.95
0-9696887-1-7
Author-Richard Thomas Wright
Stories of the men and women who dug for gold on Williams Creek are told in this new, revised edition of a Canadian bestseller.
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Canmore Sport Climbs
Can$12.95
Authors - Dave Dornian and Chris Miller
If you find yourself in the Bow Valley for only a few days, or even an afternoon or evening, you can climb good rock a short walk from the road. The outskirts of Canmore offer some of the best-developed sport climbing in the Canadian Rockies, and you can be tying-in minutes from the parking areas.
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Four-Wheeling in the B.C. Interior
Can$17.95
1-55017-156-9
Author-Mark Bostwick
Not one for the beaten path? Take the roads less-travelled with four-wheeling 'guru' Mark Bostwick.
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Nanaimo: The Harbour City
Can$24.95
1-894384-56-3
Author-Goody Niosi and Terry Patterson
Through Goody Niosi's broad knowledge of Nanaimo and its surroundings, and through the discerning vision of local photographer Terry Patterson, Nanaimo, The Harbour City captures the human spirit and broad landscape that have clearly marked this place as being very special.
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Portrait of the Canadian Rockies (Hardcover)
Can$19.95
Photographer-Elizabeth Wilson
This book - a complete look at this amazing region - includes historic images that date back over 125 years, as well as colour photographs of the large mammals that inhabit the region. And of course, the book features beautiful colour photographs of all the important scenic views for which the Canadian Rockies is famous, taken by some of the Rockies best-known
photographers.
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Portrait of the Canadian Rockies (Softcover)
Can$14.95
Photographer-Elizabeth Wilson
The Canadian Rockies are one the world's most popular as well as most beautiful places. From pristine mountain lakes to jagged, glacier-studded peaks, this wilderness area is a dramatic and powerful statement of the beauty inherent on our planet. This book - a complete look at this amazing region - includes historic images that date back over 125 years, as well as colour photographs of the large mammals that inhabit the region. And of course, the book features beautiful colour photographs of all the important scenic views for which the Canadian Rockies is famous, taken by some of the Rockies best-known photographers.
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Rocky Horrors, Frozen Smiles
Can$14.95 Can$7.95 On Sale!
1-894384-12-1
Author-Peter Austen
A Mountaineer at the End of His Rope - Peter Austen has found humour in it all. Life-threatening falls on rock and ice, avalanches, lightning on mountain tops, high altitude diseases, grizzly bears, the unpredictability of people under extreme stress, hypothermia, and even exploding volcanoes—these are Peter’s Rocky Horrors.
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The Rage: Reflections on Risk
Can$19.95
Author - Steve De Maio
Risk-taker Steve De Maio explores risk in this eclectic collection of climbing essays and poetry written over a 20-year period.
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The Rockies of Canada: A Revised & Enlarged Edition of Camping in the Canadian Rockies (MOUNTAIN CLASSICS COLLECTION #5)
Can$19.95
Author-Walter Wilcox
foreword by-Neil Wedin
First published in 1900, The Rockies of Canada is based on one of the first major works to be written about the mountains of western Canada,
Camping in the Canadian Rockies (1896). Focusing upon the escapades of the "Lake Louise Club", a group of relatively inexperienced climbers from Yale University and elsewhere in the eastern United States, this fifth volume in the Mountain Classics Collection offers the reader a glimpse not only of the remarkable beauty and grandeur of the Rocky Mountains, but also the danger and rigours these early adventurers experienced nearly every day.
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Winter Wise
Can$14.95
1-895811-95-3
Author-Montague "Monty" Alford
In Winter Wise, Monty Alford shares a lifetime of experience,
technique, and personal knowledge of surviving and travelling on ice and snow.
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