BELATEDLY WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY 2024 Mist remnants over Buttle Lake, February 12th In this Issue: WINTER CONDITIONS IN THE PARK UPCOMING EVENTS WORK WITH US THREE NEW ADDITIONS TO OUR COLLECTION OF RESEARCH ARTICLES WINTER CONDITIONS IN THE PARK Piggott Creek freely running mid February- courtesy Tim Penney Read more
The mountain tops started to receive their first dustings of snow at the end of September, only to come and go with the fluctuating temperatures.
Looking across Buttle to Wolf River – Sept 8th, 2023 GENERAL NEWS Some of major fires in the Buttle area continue to burn, in particular on Mount Con Reid and in the Wolf River watershed. The photo above shows the Wolf River estuary engulfed in smoke, with only the peak Read more
Up to mid August the skies were mostly clear and the sun hot over the Plateau. The views from the Augerpoint Traverse below reveal the Strathcona alpine at its very best, with 360 degree panoramas and a spectacular final view to the west towards the Golden Hinde
Somehow two months have slipped by since the last Newsletter and the snow has all but disappeared from the Boardwalk in Paradise Meadows and the ski slopes of Mt Washington above. Trails below 1000 m asl, such as to Divers or McKenzie Lakes, are free of snow and over in the Buttle area…
Kings Peak in Winter (Garb, March 10, 2023) IN THIS SHORT ISSUE: VIMFF SHOW IN RETROSPECT REMINDER: SWI AGM on APRIL 12th at 7:00 pm SUMMER JOBS ANNOUNCEMENT SPP IN MARCH VIMFF SHOW IN RETROSPECT SWI is happy to report that our second Film Festival fundraiser was a great success. Read more
Crossing Kooso Lake, January 2023 – courtesy Tim Penney In this edition : Winter in the Park Upcoming Events Call for Volunteers WINTER IN THE PARK The popular BackCountry Film Festival that we recently hosted presented a range of exciting ski adventures from Alaska to Slovenia, but in our own Read more
2023_01_18 Strathcona Park Wilderness Centre Glenn Gustafson There is a good base of snow up in the park at 1100m, entering from the Paradise Meadows access. Conditions have been highly variable to say the least over the past month or so, with incoming storms, and alternating above and below zero Read more
Now that the Meadows have donned their winter mantle it is time to reflect on the 2022 season. 2022 has been a very different “summer” season. We had more or less 4 months of clear trails in the Subalpine, from late July to late October, roughly a month later than “normal” or at least in the past 4-5 years. While in most years we expect to have the Wilderness Centre open by mid June, 2022 saw a deeper than average snow-pack and a longer cool period through April and May, so that there was still snow on the boardwalks in Paradise Meadows in early July. And over in the Buttle area of the Park the winter storms wreaked havoc in the campsites and trails, with hundreds of fallen trees and limbs blocking access.
A Brief E-Newsletter for Mid August. Mt Drabble Tarn, July 20th, 2022 GENERAL NEWS The weather finally changed in a radical way during the 3rd week of July. On the 18th there was still snow on the top of Mt Elma, and patches on the trails on the Plateau level above Read more