We have been in desperate need on the West Coast for a definitive and comprehensive guide to many of the[…]
Book Review: Surveying the Great Divide
In January 1913, land surveyor and founding president of the Alpine Club of Canada (ACC), Arthur Oliver Wheeler, penned an[…]
Book Review: 105 Hikes In and Around Southwestern British Columbia
I have, sitting before me, a few 1st editions of the 1973 version of 103 Hikes in Southwestern British Columbia[…]
Fat Cats
There has been a spate of books published in the last few decades lamenting the deterioration of our national and[…]
Book Review: The Ogre: Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent
In reviewing Chris Bonington Mountaineer in the Spring/Summer 2017 issue of Cloudburst, I referred to Bonington and Scott’s 1977 first[…]