Kootenay National Park .. Numa Pass One of the Canadian Rockie’s hidden gems .. This hike follows the Rockwall face in Kootenay National Park .. This view is of the Numa pass on day two of my four day hike .. The person in the lower right having a rest is my wonderful beautiful Wife Laurie. The Rockwall Trail starts at Floe Lake, at the base of the massive 700-meter-high cliffs of the Vermilion Range. [...]
History of Fort Steele The origin of Fort Steele can be traced to the small settlement of Galbraith’s Ferry, which was born during the 1864 Kootenay gold rush. In 1888 the settlement’s name was changed to Fort Steele to honour Superintendent Samuel Steele of the North West Mounted Police, who peacefully settled tensions between white settlers and the Ktunaxa people. Major mineral discoveries in the East Kootenay brought a new boom in 1897. Fort Steele [...]
