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A blog to help you explore Shuswap geography by Jim Cooperman, author of Everything Shuswap, including his newspaper columns with more images and information that did not appear in print, as well as other commentaries and memoirs.

What makes the Shuswap unique?

What makes the Shuswap unique? One of the enjoyable parts of spending time at a backcountry lodge is chatting with the other skiers from around […]

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Sol Powder – Ides of March

Exciting, fast action video clips from our March 11-18 trip to the Sol Mountain Ski Lodge, along with a few live music clips and some

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Poetic Musings from the backcountry skiing uptrack

I found a fun way to fill the time during the hours it takes to climb the backcountry mountain uptracks prior to skiing back down

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Tar Sands and Pipelines.mov

Environment, Videos

A comprehensive PowerPoint presentation about the Tar Sands and the proposed Northern Gateway Pipelines and oil tankers on B.C.’s northern coastline. It provides nearly everything

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Neglect – The latest crisis in B.C.’s forests

Neglect – The latest crisis in B.C.’s forests Forthcoming in the March-April 2012 Watershed Sentinel (http://www.watershedsentinel.ca/ ) In 1985, the rapidly growing amount of not-satisfactorily-restocked

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Latest Videos

Fun, insightful, inspiring and intriguing videos of music, backcountry ski-touring, environmental events, hiking, and biking.

Roots & Blues Retro – a retrospective tour of festivals since 2011

.A brief tour of the 2018 Adams River sockeye salmon run. The soundtrack is a song by Anie Hepher.

Most of the images from the book, Everything Shuswap with an original soundtrack by Sylvain Valle

The Shuswap Country

by Erskine Burnett

Treasures come in assorted shapes and sizes. They might be a grandmother’s beaded purse, or an old apple basket like one resting atop my bookshelf that transports me to the family farm, with voices shouting from treetops as we pluck Macs and Golden Delicious. A personal scrapbook can also be an unexpected treasure, and The Shuswap Country by Erskine Burnett is just that.

Everything Shuswap

by Jim Cooperman

“Everything Shuswap explores the region’s rich eco-types and its interwoven historical record. It’s a textbook for understanding one of the most beautiful and least understood landscapes and it should be mandatory reading for anyone who lives in or visits the Shuswap.” – Mark Hume, author of Adam’s River and other books

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