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when “shoeing” through the wilderness with the sounds of nature muffled from the fresh fallen, powdery snow.
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For the escapist: Brush up on your technique with the Calgary Outdoor Centre’s lectures and lessons. Tours range from beginner to expert and include transport from the city out to the Rockies for day hikes. Banff Tours offers a three-kilometre hike to the Paint Pots, while guides regale you with true stories about explorers, fur traders and indigenous peoples who once called the rugged wilderness of the Rockies home. You can learn tracking skills and brush up on your scatology while tracking hare, wolf and elk, en route to a soul-warming
campfire where the Jasper Adventure Centre guides will break out the hot dogs and hot chocolate.
For the more experienced snowshoer, head into the mountains where scores of marked trails present endless enjoyment and opportunity to re-connect with nature. Kananaskis Country and Cypress Hills Provincial Park sports beginner and intermediate trails on easy, safe terrain, while Banff National Park and Waterton National Park offer the whole gambit of levels from one hour hikes to multi-day excursions. Check out the trails just east of Edmonton at Cooking Lake Blackfoot Recreation Area.
If you’re properly trained, prepared, planned, equipped and dressed snowshoes are an excellent way to explore the backcountry in winter. Here are some tips for enjoying snowshoeing:
* Always be aware of avalanche and changing weather
conditions * Carry or know how to find clean safe water * Let people know where you are going and when you plan
to return * Have good map and compass skills * Use care, or even avoid, crossing frozen bodies of water
and glaciers * Carry first aide and emergency supplies * If you’re not experienced, travel with a guide, or qualified
person
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