Experience the Mountain Parks Blog

Experience The Mountain Parks Blog

...all about the Alberta-to-British Columbia mountain parks, including life in and around the parks. Not all our news and stories are here, though, so you might want to check our news section and Bob's "tweets" —conveniently placed in the upper right of each page.

Submit your photos or videos!!

Sunday, April 04, 2010

Stephanie Donald from New Brunswick submitted these two shots below.

She said:
"I took both photos in Jasper when I was there March 2 and 3 while on a wildlife tour.
The first photo is taken while driving on the #16 in the direction of Hinton. The second is taken while stopped on the Maligne Lake Road.

Although short, my trip was fabulous and I can't wait to get back! It is an amazing part of the country."

You can do the same too by submitting your photos here!!
And your videos here!!

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The 2009 Experience The Mountain Parks Photos/Videos Announced

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

On behalf of all of our contest sponsors, we are very pleased to announce that Rui Shan, of Edmonton, Alberta submitted the winning entry to our Reader Photo Contest!

Rui's image is of a sunset over Moraine Lake - one of the most photographed landscapes in the Canadian Rockies. What makes his image so striking is the manner in which he captures the light on the mountain peaks and the presence of vivid colour throughout.

Our sponsors have teamed up to provide Rui with a dream travel video system and an exciting 9-Day holiday for two in Revelstoke and Eagle Pass, BC. All of the details of this incredible 9-day vacation are detailed here.

2009 Photo Contest Winner | Sunset Over Moraine Lake

And the video system has been donated by The Camera Store, located in Calgary and it consists of a Sony HDR 520 video camera, telephoto lens, tripod, bag, book, cleaning kit & instructional DVD, with a total value of $1,800!

See Rui's submission on the left titled "Sunset Over Moraine Lake"

We'd like to thank all of our readers who submitted photo entries this year. Honourable mention goes to Barry Philippson of Ottawa, Ontario for his "Zen Moment at Lake O'Hara" - the image that we have selected as the new cover shot for our 2010 edition of Experience the Mountain Parks. (see below)

2009 Photo Contest | Zen Moment at Lake O'Hara

Other finalists include Amanda Polson of Penticton, BC for her entry entitled "The Stunning Vast Expanse of the Illecillewaet Glacier", (see below)

2009 Photo Contest | The Stunning Vast Expanse of the Illecillewaet Glacier

and Roald van Heerde of The Netherlands for the entry captioned "Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel Entertaining the Tourists". (see below)

2009 Photo Contest | Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel Entertaining the Tourists

We have invited Rui to attend a formal presentation at The Camera Store in Calgary, so keep posted for pics of that ceremony in due course. We would like to thank our many sponsors for their kind and generous support of this, our 4^th annual Photo Contest.

And on behalf of the entire staff of CMI Publishing, hearty congratulations to Rui, Barry, Amanda and Roald.

Bob Harris

Publisher

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Over 135 Videos for your enjoyment are now available!!

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Some of you might wonder what happened since our last post on December 18th last year...

Well we've been quite busy wrapping up our 2009 Photos/Videos contest.

A few days left and we'll announce who's the next winner. Some of you might still not have seen their submission up here. It will come pretty soon now.

We also prepared you a surprise; we've been hunting down the world to find the best -winter sports- videos out there just for your pleasure.

So, as of today this website has an incredible amount of videos -135- even full feature movies. Of course the bulk of it is winter-related for now.

Two pages have been added, one on the films/movies we enjoyed. You can access this page called "Inspiring Movies" here. You'll be delighted to see there no less than 15 movies, 2 being full feature films. Some of these movies originated from Switzerland, Canada, USA, or France.

The second page we added is I'd say an "instructional" one. We gathered the best tips from the best pros out there. On this page you'll discover tips on how to improve your downhill ski, snowboard, free ski, cross-country ski, and telemark skills! As we are sometimes picky and we know there are lots of videos out there, we only picked the best to help you progress. 60 videos to enjoy!

You'll also see along the right side, some players with related videos. You don't want to miss them, they are very good.

As we pick only the best to showcase, it doesn't mean you should be shy and not submit your photos, videos, stories, coming events, job offers, or classifieds. We want to encourage you to share your experience, or use our free services!!

(There is a page where you can upload your videos, there is also another one for your photos.

If you prefer you can also contact us through this page for any other enquiry.)

If you like -or dislike- something, or would like us to highlight or research on something don't hesitate to comment or write to us. We'd love to hear from you.

What else? During these days, we've uploaded more stories and you can usually find them at the bottom of each section. There are almost a hundred of stories and we'll be adding more. As usual, this website gets new content every day. So keep coming back as more surprises will eventually come.

To facilitate your navigation through our website. we've added a stories site map, this is the place where you'll find them all. A stories -only- search engine has also been added. More contributors have been added to our already long list...

We also encourage you to visit our sponsors -hand-picked- on the right side. Did you know you can book your next trip to the mountains through our website as we partnered with Expedia?

Last thing for today, you might want to check what Bob (Harris) is "twitting". He'll pretty soon will have more than 2000 trusting followers. This technology is really giving opportunities to discover in no time some neat stuff happening around.

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Affiliations & Support

Saturday, December 12, 2009

We are sure by now you've seen the advertisements running on the right side of this website.
We carefully hand-picked through reputable affiliation agencies some relevant companies and not-for-profit organizations we felt would suit this website and our vision.

However we're looking for your feedback as we'll expand this website and its content through your vision too. So don't hesitate to drop us a few lines through our contact form.

As well we firmly want to open doors to local businesses and local non-profit organizations as we feel it's important to you and to the local communities we strongly support. We're actually in discussion with some "Friends of..." organizations to better serve their pursuits through partnership. Our goal is to shape this website as your one-stop before, during and after your outing.

So if you're interested in our support -as an individual, business, organization, etc.- we strongly recommend you to get in touch with us as we have the technical abilities to shape something for you, to help you out.
This website is yours, we're giving you here some empowerment to make it work for you.

Pretty soon and by popular demand we'll be launching our own full shopping experience. So stay tuned as we're going through the final technicalities.