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Regional Condition & Reports The Weather Network Quick Regional Chart
Waterton National Park
Castle-Crown
Crowsnest Pass
Livingstone Range
Kananaskis Country (South)
Kananaskis Country (North)
Canmore
Banff National Park (Town)
Banff National Park (Castle Junction) & Kootenay National Park
Banff National Park (Lake Louise, Icefields Parkway) & Yoho National Park
Jasper National Park

Scrambles & Hiking Websites

• Road Not Taken - Anther great source for scrambles.
• explor8ion.com - Vern Dewit, the author of Fresh Oxygen's new website.
• Drew and Mark in the Canadian Rockies - The author of the book More Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies' website.
• Dave's Place - In depth trip report of his activities from scramble to climbing to skiing.
• Eric Coulthard in the Canadian Rockies - Eric Coulthard's trip reports anything from hiking to mountaineering.
• BillKerr.ca - Bill Kerr, weekend climber, scrambler and backcountry skier's blog site.
• Canada's Mountains - This old website is recently rebuild.
• Travels and Trails - Trails, trips, and travels in Canada and around the world.
• Kananaskis Country Trails - Tony & Gillean Daffern's website, the authors of great Canadian Rocky's trail books
• MMhikes.com - Malgosia and Marcin's Hikes in the Canadian Rockies.
• toddlearn.blogspot.com - Todd Learn's blog site.

Trip Reports & Forums

• Rocky Mountain Books Forum - New RMB forum.
• ClubTread.com - Forum base and up-to-current trip reports. An excellent source for your next weekend trip plan.
• SummitPost - A world wide community site for hiking, scramble and yet mountaineering trip reports.
• Kananaskis Outdoors Forum - Forum for Hiking, XC-skiing and Snowshoeing in Kananaskis Country.

Recommended Books

• Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies - Written by Alen Kane. Covers a lot of Albertan Rockies. I call this book bible.
• More Scrambles in the Canadian Rockies - Written by Andrew Nugara. More scrambles! Peeps are needy.
• Exploring The Castle - Written by Robert Kershaw. Great book for hiking in the Castle.
• Popular Day Hikes1 Kananaskis Country - Written by Gillean Daffern. Great book for hiking in Kananaskis.
• Popular Day Hikes2 Canadian Rockies - Written by Tony Daffern. Covers Banff, Kootenay, Yoho, and Jasper.
• Kananaskis Country Trail Guide - Vol 1 - Written by Gillean Daffern. New copy's price at Amazon.ca is $202.06
• Backcountry Biking in the Canadian Rockies - Written by Doug Eastcott. Great book for biking in Rockies.
• Ridgewalks in the Canadian Rockies - Written by Mike Potter. Great book for ridge walking.
• Canadian Rockies Trail Guide - Written by Brian Patton & Bart Robinson. So many trails.
• The 11,000ers - Written by Bill Corbett. Guide of all 54 11,000-foot peaks in the Canadian Rockies.
• Summits & Icefields Canadian Rockies - Written by Chic Scott. Excellent book for alpine ski tours.

GPS Data Exchange Websites

• Road Not Taken - Anther great source for scrambles. (Free)
• Calgary Outdoor Club - They have quite a collection of GPX files available for public. (Free)
• Hike Alberta - Great site to find trail data for hiking in Alberta. (Free)
• Wikiloc - GPS location-sharing community. Ppost and share GPS trails and waypoints. (Free)
• Trail Peak - Canada's greatest GPX exchange community site. (Free if you participate otherwise pay)
• Every Trail - Trails from all over the world. (Free)
• MMhikes.com - Malgosia and Marcin's Hikes in the Canadian Rockies. (Free)
• StepWhere - StepWhere helps active people discover the best places to run, walk, and hike. (Free)
• Bikely - Bike Trails, Paths & Routes From Over 40 Countries. (Free)
• Wandermap.net - Your hiking routes online. (Free)
• Bikemap.net - Your hiking routes online. (Free)

GPS Maps

• Ibycus Topo - Hands down free high quality Topographical map of Canada.
• Southern Alberta Trail Map - Free map for trails around South Alberta. This map has a lot of trails.
• Quad Squad - Free trail map for quad in South Alberta.

GPS Software

• Garmin - I love Garmin GPS devices.
• Mapitfirst - A greate GPS trip planner. Full color topographical maps and access to thousands of trail tracks for your GPS
• Google Earth - Always fun to import GPS data into Google Earth and see where I've been in 3D.
• GPSBabel - GPSBabel converts waypoints, tracks, and routes between popular GPS receivers and mapping programs.
• GPS Altitude Chart - A chart with more information like total ascend, minimum and maximum elevation, total distance or time.

GPS Games

• Geocaching - Find caches from all over the world.
• Waymarking - Interesting places of the world.

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