Rocky Mountain Books: 144 books
Mountain Footsteps: Hikes in the East Kootenay of Southwestern British ColumbiaThird Edition, UPDATED
Hikes in the East Kootenay of Southwestern British Columbia—Third Edition, UPDATED
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
This edition of one of Rocky Mountain Books’ bestselling hiking guides contains the latest updates to routes, trails and roads in the areas around Cranbrook, Kimberley, Creston, Invermere, Radium and Fernie, located between the Rocky Mountains in the east and the Purcell Mountains in the west, including...
by Conrad Kain
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
He brought glamour and imagination into the sport of mountaineering as few guides have done before him. Recalling his personality and amusing stories one should not forget that his approach to mountains was first and foremost an aesthetic one; he saw a peak first as something beautiful—the technical...
Lost and Found
Adrift in the Canadian Rockies
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
For many people, moving to a mountain town is the realization of a dream, the final step in a pilgrimage to a relaxed lifestyle in a rugged and beautiful setting. After a long journey that began when he was a teenager in the 1980s with the vague idea there might be a better life somewhere “out west,”...
Imagine This Valley
Essays and Stories Celebrating the Bow Valley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Featuring essays from some of the area’s most beloved personalities, this exceptional literary anthology celebrates the landscape, culture, community and natural history of Alberta’s Bow Valley.
Canmore and Banff are collectively renowned for their mountain culture, diverse wildlife and...
Mountain Footsteps
Hikes in the East Kootenay of Southeastern British Columbia – 4th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
This new edition of Mountain Footsteps is completely revised and updated, and includes enhanced colour maps and beautiful photos which will breathe new life into the outdoor experience for outdoor enthusiasts.
The trails and routes described in this bestselling guidebook are between the Rocky...
Coastal Beauty
Wildflowers and Flowering Shrubs of Coastal British Columbia and Vancouver Island
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Coastal Beauty is a follow-up to three previous volumes on wildflowers written by Neil Jennings and published by Rocky Mountain Books. It is being published at the same time as Central Beauty: Wildflowers and Flowering Shrubs of The Southern Interior of British Columbia, making a set of five books...
Central Beauty
Wildflowers and Flowering Shrubs of the Southern Interior of British Columbia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
Central Beauty: Wildflowers and Flowering Shrubs of the Southern Interior of British Columbia is a follow-up to three previous volumes on wildflowers written by Neil Jennings and published by Rocky Mountain Books. It is being published at the same time as Coastal Beauty Wildflowers and Flowering Shrubs...
The Canadian Rockies
New and Old Trails (Mountain Classics Collection #1)
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Arthur Philemon Coleman was a passionate Canadian and one of the first to truly discover the beauty and majesty of this country''s mountain ranges as an explorer, geologist and mountaineer. In 1884, before the railway traversed the Rocky and Columbia mountains, Coleman headed west on the first of...
by Stephen Legault
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
In 2006 Stephen Legault experienced a period of tremendous upheaval, the result of bad decisions and a lifetime of anger and fear that left him in a deep depression, struggling to come to terms with the choices he had made. While running on a sun-dappled trail around Victoria’s iconic Mount Doug...
The Green Horse
My Early Years in the Canadian Rockies – A Park Warden’s Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
An inspiring, humorous and adventure-packed mountain memoir that takes the reader on a journey into western Canada’s backcountry parks during the raucous 1960s and 1970s.
Born in the west but raised initially in the east, Dale Portman was eight years old when his family headed back to the...
by Erik Bjarnason, Cathi Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
One mountaineer’s harrowing story of survival and recovery after being trapped on the second-highest peak in North America, Mount Logan in the Yukon Territory, during an extratropical cyclone.
In May of 2005, North Shore Rescue put together a 40th Anniversary Expedition to Mount Logan. The...
by Gerry Shea
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Featuring a fresh design and the most current route updates, Popular Day Hikes is a series of bestselling books written for visitors and locals looking to hike scenic trails from well-established staging areas.
Popular Day Hikes: Northern Okanagan details 39 popular day trips amid the stunning,...
Art of Freedom
The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Banff Mountain Book Award for Mountain Literature (Non Fiction). Winner of the 2017 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Winner of the National Outdoor Book Awards.
A profound and moving biography of one of the international climbing world's most respected, complicated...
Deep Powder and Steep Rock
The Life of Mountain Guide Hans Gmoser
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Hans Gmoser (1932–2006) was the most influential mountaineer in Canada of the last fifty years. Through innovation, hard work, perseverance and an appetite for adventure, Gmoser evolved from penniless immigrant to mountain guide for kings, queens and prime ministers. He also played a major role...