The name of mountain guide Conrad Kain is no stranger to those living in the Columbia/Kootenay valleys, and to much of the mountaineering community across…
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Kain Teens explore new horizons
By Pat Morrow For the first time since its inception nine years ago, the Conrad Kain Teens climbing camp was held at a location outside…
Wildsight Kimberley Cranbrook AGM April 7
Pat Morrow visiting with multi media show Wildsight Kimberley Cranbrook will be hosting its annual general meeting and an evening with Pat Morrow on Friday April 7, at…
Doc recreates historic Bugaboo climb
Film screening in Kimberley Feb. 21 A new outdoor adventure documentary screening this month across southeast B.C. takes on a quirky and unusual subject: a…
JCCS holding AGM; screening of Hobnails and Hemp Rope
The Jumbo Creek Conservation Society (JCCS) is holding its annual general meeting Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 7:30 p.m. at David Thompson Secondary School. “Well, the…
Centennial of 15 first ascents by Conrad Kain
Bugaboos Teens Climbing Camp 2016 By Brian Patton The year was 1916. Thirty-three year old Conrad Kain was at the peak of his climbing career…
Hobnails and Hemp Rope on Bugaboo Spire
In less than a week, a group of Toronto climbers will set out to do something that no one’s ever done before in North America…
Mt. Robson Centennial Climbing Camp a success
Submitted by the Conrad Kain Centennial Society A hundred years after Conrad Kain, the Alpine Club of Canada’s first mountain guide, led his intrepid clients…
Regional teens experience Bug thrills
Bugaboos Teens Program, 2013 “For the fifth consecutive year, teens from the Columbia and Kootenay valleys have realized the satisfaction of self propelled sport and…
Novelist responds to criticism
Letter to the Editor I am responding to a letter to the editor published on your website regarding my recently published book Raising Kain, the adventurous…