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Kokanee Glacier Park

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2020-07-24
Summer is definitely here but that doesn’t mean the options for getting in some final ski turns are gone until next winter. The cooler than...
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2020-07-24
2019-08-29
Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park just East of Nelson BC offers relatively easy access to Kokanee Glacier which gives the park its name. While there...
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2019-08-29
2015-07-25
Kokanee Glacier Park is located a 20min drive just east of Nelson BC and offers up some pretty easy access hiking, scrambling and mountaineering...
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2015-07-25
2014-07-12
Interested in spending New Years at the Kokanee Glacier Hut? Dec 27th-Jan 2nd ACC hut/heli fee $925 Spaces still available, contact me if...
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2014-12-22
2014-05-23
I'd like to do some late spring/early summer ski touring at Kokanee. Any info on when road access opens up? Either Kokanee Creek to Gibson...
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2014-06-30
2014-02-17
Got a chance to stray further afar than just the slackcountry off WH2O and as always well worth the effort.  Sledded in to the Mtn Grohman...
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2014-02-18
2014-01-30
Back on January 4th to 13th I was lucky enough to join a group of friends up at Kokanee Glacier Lodge. This was my first multiday ski tour...
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2014-01-30
2013-08-22
Gray's Peak is the highest point in Kokanee Glacier Park just North of Nelson BC. It's also the most dramatic mountain viewable from...
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2013-08-22
2013-06-16
Canadian glaciologists know quite a bit about glacier area in the Canadian portion of the Columbia River Basin (CCRB) thanks to satellite ...
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2013-06-16
2013-05-16
I love spring touring but in all honesty I do very little of it. By April or May my motivation starts to shift to riding my road bike and work...
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2013-05-16
2013-05-09
Day six up here at Kokanee Glacier Cabin and the required routes have all been successfully ticked off the "to-do" list. Sunday saw us climb two...
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2013-05-09
2013-05-05
A modified version of the Backcountry Skiing Canada team is in at Kokanee Glacier Cabin (near Nelson BC) for the next 7 days and even though there...
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2013-05-05