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Right: Jumbo Valley. Central Purcell Mountains, British Columbia, Canada. Garrett Grove
The first time Leah Evans stood in southern
British Columbia’s (B.C.) majestic Jumbo
Valley, she remembers, “All the large trees
were shining, reflecting in the lake. There
were more glaciers than I have ever seen
in one place. It has been etched in my mind
ever since.” The Rossland, B.C.-raised skier
had been brought to this rare, wild environ-
ment in the Purcell Mountains as a preteen
outdoorswoman, by parents she refers to
as “first-generation adventurers.” Together,
her family had traveled via a ‘70s-era motor
home to Alaska, the Yukon Territories
and Bella Coola, but Evans immediately
felt a unique, powerful connection to the
Jumbo Valley.
As she stood there, her parents revealed
a hard truth: The Jumbo Valley was in
danger of being marked with a real-estate
development and a year-round ski resort.
Then they told her something even
more shocking.
“You’ll have to save this place.”
So in seventh grade, in 2000, when
Evans’s teacher asked her to write an
essay about a controversial topic, this
wild valley—threatened with one of B.C.’s
most contentious developments—was her
immediate choice. “I feel like people don’t
know what is back there. It is so huge, and
you’re so small. You have to go to understand
the magnitude of what could be lost.” She’s
been writing the Jumbo essay ever since.
At full build-out, the proposed Jumbo
Glacier Resort would offer 5,900 vertical
feet of year-round skiing on a proposed
20–30 ski lifts over 5,925 hectares of terrain
spanning four glaciers. The highest terrain
would reach 11,217 feet—B.C.’s highest ski
resort. Over the past 24 years, Italian-born,
Vancouver-based architect Oberto Oberti
has tried to get “Jumbo” (local shorthand
for the proposed development) off the
drafting table and into reality. Beyond the
small, bizarre victory of having an imaginary
town of Jumbo legitimized as a Mountain
Resort Municipality (Jumbo the town has no
residents, no infrastructure and no tax base,
but has a mayor and town council), there
has been very little movement. Spend time
speaking to residents of the Kootenays—
B.C.’s famous ski and snowboard mecca—and
you start to understand why. Very few
residents want this thing.
“I’ve watched it unfold my whole life,” the
26-year-old Evans says. “I’ve grown up with
the issue, and the government hasn’t been
Words:
Mike Berard
For 24 years, residents of the Kootenays in British Columbia, Canada, have been largely opposed to a
proposed year-round ski resort in the heart of the Central Purcell Mountains—a region that encompasses
both cherished alpine backcountry and critical core grizzly bear habitat. At the time this story was going
to print, the provincial government had just dealt would-be developers a significant blow by deeming the
ski resort project not “substantially started”—a finding that would require developers to return to square
one to reapply for an environmental assessment certificate in order to continue with their plan. As the
developers contemplate their next move, local skiers, snowboarders, climbers, wildlife conservationists
and First Nations peoples staunchly hold their line, hopeful that with this ruling, the quarter-century-
long battle may be nearing an end. But whether the developers redouble their efforts or their opponents
celebrate victory—what a long, strange trip it’s been.
The Fight to Protect Jumbo Glacier
Keep JumboWild
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listening. How can the plan still be alive when
so many people have said ‘no’ for so long?”
Those who say “no” are myriad. Wildsight,
a Kimberley, B.C.-based organization with
a mission to “protect biodiversity and
encourage sustainable communities,” has
stood with locals in staunch opposition
of Jumbo. “There are so many reasons to
oppose the Jumbo Glacier Resort,” says
Wildsight Executive Director Robyn Duncan:
“the threat to grizzly bears, a glacial water
supply, the fact that the area doesn’t need
another ski hill, the desecration of sacred
First Nations territory and the end run around
the democratic process. We’re united in our
deep sense of place and our commitment to
keep Jumbo wild.”
Since 1946, local hunter, fisherman and
trapper Nolan Rad has mined the Purcell
Range’s deep, dark veins; logged their flanks;
and pulled fish from the crisp streams that
bisect the valleys. For the past 20 years, he
has served on the Jumbo Creek Conservation
Society. The Shuswap First Nations Band—the
closest to Jumbo’s proposed site—agreed to
the project, citing “practical and meaningful
economic opportunities,” but the much larger
Ktunaxa First Nation has opposed it, claiming
the Jumbo Valley is within a spiritual area
called Qat’muk, the home of their Grizzly Bear
Spirit. “The Grizzly Bear Spirit is an important
part of our spiritual beliefs,” says Ktunaxa
spokesperson Kathryn Teneese. “It is our view
that our beliefs should be acknowledged and
recognized on the same basis of other belief
systems in this world.”
Brodie Smith, 29, was born and raised in
Invermere. He’s an Association of Canadian
Mountain Guides ski guide, a professional
member of the Canadian Avalanche
Association and the newest director of the
Jumbo Creek Conservation Society. Smith
has been backcountry skiing in the Purcells
for the past decade and guiding in this range
for the last five years. He believes building
a resort is shortsighted. “There’s a reason
Europeans and other people from around the
world flock here to experience the wilderness
of North America: They have very little left.
By creating ski resorts,” says Smith, “we don’t
stand to gain more wilderness, only lose it.”
And then there is the collective community:
For the past two decades a ubiquitous East
Kootenay bumper sticker has proclaimed an
almost universal desire to keep “Jumbo Wild.”
The overwhelming sentiment seems to be that
communities in the Kootenays don’t want this
resort, don’t need it and consider themselves
stronger without it.
The vast majority of skiers and
snowboarders around the globe ride lifts
and love them, even those who claim the
backcountry as their chosen playground. So
there’s an inherent tension in the fact that
many might drool in anticipation of, and
initially support, a new ski-area development
like Jumbo Glacier Resort; with a promise
of new, vast, lift-serviced terrain, one might
understand why. But the ambitious Jumbo
Glacier Resort build-out plan includes 5,500
hotel beds and 750 staff beds, while nearby,
locally owned ski resorts like Panorama,
Kicking Horse and Revelstoke struggle to
stay viable in an industry that’s been on a
steady decline for over a decade. What’s
built is built, and the effects on environment
and community of any ski resort are not small
nor easily reversible. They’re also especially
poignant when resorts operate well under
capacity year after year, as many do. Any
community or group of communities must
closely and fearlessly evaluate the need
for another resort. It must ask itself and its
government: Do we need another ski area
here when so much hangs in the balance?
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An immense, solitary creature, the grizzly
bear is more fragile than we believe, each
requiring up to 2,000 square kilometers as a
home range. When the home ranges of many
bears are fragmented—as the development
of Jumbo Glacier Resort will most likely
do—Ursus arctos horribilis will feel the effects.
Fragmentation in the trans-border British
Columbia-USA region puts the resulting
smaller grizzly populations at higher risk.
DNA surveys done over a decade ago across
Below: Local skiers and snowboard-ers largely oppose the proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort, preferring to ride lifts at existing local resorts or tour into the backcountry under their own power and experience. Garrett Grove
Right: In 1974, activist John Bergenske helped establish the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Park, the only intact ecosystem in south-eastern B.C. After several days tra-versing the contested Jumbo region, Bergenske pauses for a moment in the Jumbo Hut. Garrett Grove
Left: Ghost town. The Jumbo Glacier Mountain Resort Municipality stands empty—a wilderness with no residents and no buildings—but still has a mayor and a town council. Garrett Grove
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Those who say “no.”
Facing: Pat and Baiba Morrow of Wilmer (top left); Car talk (top right); Chief of the Ktunaxa, Kathryn Teneese of Cranbrook (middle left); Ursus arctos horribilis (middle right); Jim Galloway of Brisco (bottom left); Christine Gagatek of Invermere (bottom right)
Above: Jumbo (top left); Elder of the Ktunaxa First Nations, Herman Alpine of Cranbrook (top right); Loni Funnel, Norm Funnel and Susanne Bailey spell it out (middle left); Theodore (middle right); Ktunaxa storyteller and spiritual leader Joe Pierre of Cranbrook (bottom left); Nolan Rad of Invermere (bottom right)
Photos by: Garrett Grove, Steve Ogle and Jasmin Caton
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Right: Alex Yoder, Jumbo Pass area. British Columbia, Canada. Steve Ogle
Left: John Bergenske, Jasmin Caton and Leah Evans during a week-long ski traverse into the Jumbo Valley. Garrett Grove
the central and south Purcell Mountains found that there were
significantly fewer grizzly bears in the Purcell Mountains than
the B.C. government estimated—in some cases, that number
was not far from the threshold for being considered threatened
by B.C. government standards. Dr. Michael Proctor—one of the
world’s leading bear biologists—says this is disturbing, not only
for Jumbo, but for all Purcell grizzly bears. “Keeping this core
anchor subpopulation healthy, intact and unfragmented is likely
essential to maintaining the long-term self-sustainability of
the larger Canadian regional Purcell-Selkirk grizzly, as well as
maintaining the international grizzly bear distribution extending
directly south into the United States.”
In other words, if bears cannot live and thrive in the Jumbo
Valley, they may have trouble regionally in the long run.
* * *
Despite the creation of a resort municipality of Jumbo and some
hastily poured concrete foundations at the proposed resort site,
Canadian Environment Minister Mary Polak still determined in
late June of 2015 that progress was insufficient. She found that
“the physical activities undertaken ... did not meet the threshold
of a substantially started project” and that Glacier Resorts Ltd.
would have to apply for a new environmental certificate to con-
tinue. Meanwhile, for locals, certain facts remain obvious: There
is no town of Jumbo. No one lives there. Real towns spring up
organically where like-minded people settle. They take time and
shared effort to develop into authentic communities, and this
corner of British Columbia is filled with great examples: Nelson,
Golden, Revelstoke, Argenta, Rossland, Fernie, Invermere. You can
see community on the bumper stickers, in the roadblock protests
and during town council meetings. You can hear it in passionate,
informed voices on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation morning
talk shows. You can feel it in the sense of unity that rises around
you when you mention the word Jumbo in any public venue. This
is what community is—people finding a common voice in support
of their needs. In the Kootenays, those needs are often wild,
untamed places. A real-estate development and a government
designation don’t make a community. People do, and the people
who live here have never wanted Jumbo Glacier Resort.
“I was standing on a peak in Jumbo this winter,” says Evans.
“I looked out at the glaciers and thought, ‘Who’s going to live here?
Who wants to live here?’ People find a place that speaks to their
heart and they settle. They did that in the Columbia Valley more
than a century ago. No one has wanted to put down roots in the
Jumbo Valley. Why would they? It’s so wild and raw. If there was
supposed to be a community back there, there’d already be one.”
Oberto Oberti has maintained that his dream is to build a
ski resort that would deliver deep, light Purcells powder year-
round in a location similar to his native Europe’s alpine regions.
Backcountry skiers and splitboarders already love the Jumbo
area for its wide-open glacial turns, so why wouldn’t lift-access
skiers? But the people who live in the communities most likely
to be affected—skiers, snowboarders, hikers and climbers among
them—have asked themselves the question and answered it.
They don’t want a resort here. They can visit more than a dozen
established ski resorts within a three-hour drive—including
Invermere’s own Panorama Mountain Village—and can still ski,
hike and climb Jumbo Pass via their own two feet and a heartbeat.
They don’t need to impact raw lands that remain sacred to other
humans and critical for wildlife survival. Given the complex and
often bizarre interplay between the Jumbo developers, the
British Columbia government and the opponents on the ground,
the convoluted battle over the Jumbo Valley may well rage on,
but the reasoning of the residents of the Kootenays has always
come down to a starkly straightforward statement:
We have enough already.
In the heart of British Columbia’s Purcell Mountains, where grizzly bears roam through one of North America’s most important wildlife corridors, lies a deeply wild place that needs our protection.
Learn more about the issue and take action at patagonia.com/jumbowild
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Leah Evans puts a finishing touch on the day. Jumbo Pass, British Columbia, Canada. Garrett Grove
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Left: Brodie Smith, Alex Yoder and Max Hammer investigate otherworldly terrain beneath Mount Macbeth. Jumbo Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Steve Ogle
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Sign of the times. Portions of the proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort sit directly in major avalanche paths—a fact that has hampered developers’ plans. Jumbo Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Garrett Grove
The Sweetgrass crew and friends at work on the upcoming film Jumbo Wild. Top left: Steve Ogle; All others: Garrett Grove
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For decades, skiers, riders, alpinists, conservationists, and First Nations have fought a large-scale ski resort deep in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia. After 24 years of opposition, what more will it take to keep Jumbo wild for good?
JumboWild
Learn more. Watch the film. Get involved. patagonia.com/jumbowild
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A New Species of Ski FilmNearly a year ago, director Nick Waggoner of Sweetgrass Productions dove into the quarter-century-long fray unfolding at his doorstep in British Columbia.
Would-be developers of Jumbo Glacier Resort envision a
four-season ski resort and real-estate development that
would impact approximately 6,000 hectares of the wild
Central Purcell Mountains—but local community members
continue to push back. In a new film, Waggoner and his
crew trace the fascinating and convoluted development of
the Jumbo story, from the developers’ initial presentation
to the Canadian government for plan approval in 1993 to
today. The Jumbo story unfolds still, complete with political
intrigue, grassroots activism, guerrilla demonstrations,
government stop-work orders and impassioned community
outcry against a resort that developers promise would be “a
snow rider’s dream.” All the while, a vast, raw environment,
sacred to many First Nations people and critical for the
existence of the grizzly bear, hangs in the balance.
To see the Sweetgrass film and learn more about the
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Left: What goes up … Alex Yoder makes tracks both ways. Steve Ogle
Right: What goes up must also be washed. Jumbo Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Steve Ogle
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Top right: Leah Evans and Jasmin Caton get granular before a week-long traverse in the Jumbo Valley region. Garrett Grove
Bottom right: Route-finding in real time. Garrett Grove
You’d never skied together before this trip.
How’d the dynamic work?
Jasmin: A trip like this with new people
can leave you with a feeling of, “Hmmm,”
but this was definitely a “YES.” Hanging
out with Leah has inspired me to try some
more exciting stuff. Our skills are really
complementary, and we can offer each
other a lot.
Leah: For sure. I watched everything
Jasmin did because she has such depth
of experience out there. I’d see her do
something with her pack or something,
and I’d say, “Um, I’m going to do that with
my pack, too.” I want to learn as much as I
can from her.
You went to see where the proposed Jumbo
Glacier Resort would be if it came to pass.
Can you describe it?
Leah: I’ve skied in big mountains my entire
life, but I definitely felt like, “Whoa, this
is jumbo terrain.” And to put a ski area in
that valley makes no sense. As a forest
firefighter, I spent two years in this one field
picking up sticks, I got to know each tree
and log. Then they came and logged it, and
until then, I’d never felt what it was to be an
environmentalist. I guess I’d love to know
if the people who are making plans for the
Jumbo resort have ever actually walked
on that ground.
Jasmin: I totally agree. Having looked at
the plans and then seeing the terrain with
my eyes, I just … the pieces don’t add
up. The glaciers are crumbling and big,
with real relief and craggy rocks. There
are proposed ski lifts where the terrain is
totally rugged, there are runs that end at
huge icefalls. Even if I wanted this resort
to happen, I feel it’d be destined to fail,
or be much less than it’s supposed to be,
in a very half-assed way.
You make your living skiing, but you both
had very different ways you might’ve gone.
Leah: I grew up in Rossland and went to
university in Virginia on a field hockey
scholarship. But my heart was just not in it.
It was a matter of committing full-heartedly
to something, and for me it was skiing.
Jasmin: Academics were a huge part of
my life, and I was given a great scholarship
to university to study hydrogeology but
never really left behind the mountains. I
find meaning in guiding that I never found
working a science job. I guess it’s how I
express my concern about nature and the
wilderness. Guiding may seem frivolous,
but it’s not frivolous at all.
So you try and inspire your clients not just
to appreciate the environment, but also to
protect it?
Jasmin: A huge part of my job is capturing
people at a fresh state and then modeling
an appropriate interaction with the
environment. We’re recreating in this
space, and we need to do it well. I also
guide a lot of the same people year after
year so I see their evolution, see them tune
in and make connections about climate
and snow conditions.
Leah: I guess I don’t think of it as
something I do, it’s the way I am. As a
teacher, you are the example of how to
interact with a place. There’s a community
of people right now that’s changing how
we interact with the backcountry. It’s such
an exciting time.
Most ski movies today seem to celebrate
the extreme side of the backcountry. And
yet the quiet and the expanse are a huge
part of the actual experience for people.
Leah: I think we’re getting burnt out on
the speed of everything like Facebook
and Twitter. We want to be unplugged.
There’s something very organic about
getting up, putting your boots on and
going walking. It’s quieter but it’s more
Walking the Ground
Jasmin Caton and Leah Evans both live and work in southeastern British Columbia: Caton as a ski
guide and co-owner of Valhalla Mountain Touring; Evans as founder and director of the freeski
program Girls Do Ski in Revelstoke. Caton has been skiing the backcountry since she was a child, while
Evans comes from a hard-charging, competitive freeskiing environment. We spoke with them just
after they’d completed an eight-day ski traverse through a section of the Jumbo Glacier backcountry,
to see for themselves the site of the proposed and hotly contested Jumbo Glacier Resort.
Two skiers talk about wild places, community and defending the mountains that move them
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powerful. When you come out of a trip like
the traverse we just did, you’re not sure
you want to turn on your phone ever again.
Jasmin: There’s a group of people I’ve
guided several times who’d never done
anything other than cat-ski, but this year
they requested a week-long tour. I would
never have predicted that. What drove
them to this touring thing, because they
definitely struggled physically … I think,
even if they didn’t know they were seeking
it, they were drawn by the nonmechanized
nature of it. The silence, the expanse, the
deeper commitment. Because in the end,
without exception, every person who
stands on top of a mountain on a calm day
after touring there says, “It’s so quiet.”
It’s hard to avoid a discussion of risk when
we talk about backcountry skiing. What is
your relationship to risk and how do you
manage that reality?
Jasmin: There’s a saying, “You live and
die by your habits.” The days I log in
backcountry terrain every winter is well
over 100, so I always try to be vigilant with
my assessments and to err on the side
of caution—hopefully not so I’m robbing
myself of experience, but regrouping all
the time. You have to make tons of small
adjustments that hopefully keep the
numbers game from catching up to you.
It’s almost hard for me to get into Leah’s
head and emulate an athlete like her, who
skis with such confidence, because my
brain is so in the habit of assessing, where
I think, “That looks fun, but what if it goes
wrong?” I’m always asking, “What if?” So
to push myself physically to ski the way
I know I can, I need the right balance of
confidence and caution.
Leah: I’ve always wanted to push myself,
see how fast I can go, what I can jump.
That always worked for me. But I got in
an avalanche recently and it rattled me.
Now there’s a voice in my head that never
existed before. Now I think, I love all these
people (my family, friends, community),
and all these people love me. For me not
to respect their love for me isn’t an option.
I want to be here for a long time, so I’m
going to have to re-evaluate the equation
that had been working for me.
Your work takes you both to some incredible
places, but what makes a place home?
Jasmin: Community. The people I work
with. My husband. My dog. If I was there
by myself, a place wouldn’t be my place.
The landscape might allow for all sorts of
adventures, but community is what makes
it home. Squamish (where I work as a rock
climbing guide in the summers) is my
place, and so is Valhalla.
Leah: Revelstoke is definitely home. It’s
this little pocket where I’m normalized,
where all aspects of my life are accepted.
Does the prospect of the Jumbo
development throw a new light on your
home and community?
Leah: It takes time to build a community—
whether it’s my community in Revelstoke
or my wider mountain community—to
make connections, to learn how resources
are being used. I think the prospect of
Jumbo is a sad but galvanizing moment.
Jasmin: Having something to stand
behind, beyond our personal adventures,
has made for deeper conversations and
connections. People’s passion for the
issue, and how they dedicate their energy
toward it, inspires me. It’s made me
realize how much I respect people who
care about and act on things beyond their
personal pursuits.
What actions would you be willing to take
personally to oppose Jumbo?
Leah: Making people aware of the issue
is one of the biggest things we can do to
protest the build-out. I want to be on the
educational side of things, presenting
the issue to people, youth especially, and
encouraging them to get outside in nature,
to think about democracy and how it
should work.
Jasmin: I’ve been involved in civil
disobedience in the past, and I would
certainly spend some time waving signs
at a protest. But planning trips that raise
awareness of the landscapes at stake and
educating my clients would be a better
use of my skills. But I’m staying in this
fight. It’s shown me that it’s essential to
my happiness to be involved in something
bigger than just myself and my adventures.
“ Without exception, every person who stands on top of a
mountain on a calm day after touring there says, ‘It’s so quiet.’”
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Above: “I’ve skied in big mountains my entire life, but I definitely felt like, ‘Whoa, this is Jumbo terrain.’” – Leah Evans Garrett Grove
Left: “My brain is so in the habit of assessing. I’m always ask-ing, ‘What if?’” – Jasmin Caton Garrett Grove
Right: Evans and Caton raise a can to the trip. Garrett Grove
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Left: Brodie Smith, Jamie Whiteside, Alex Yoder and Max Hammer break trail to the summit. Steve Ogle
Right: Max Hammer, pack animal. Jumbo Valley, British Columbia, Canada. Steve Ogle
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He was a calculated risk-taker dedicated to climbing
and skiing some of the most challenging lines in
the world. Known for an effortless style on steep,
precarious terrain, he was as well-known for his
unmistakable personality. Dave contributed to our
Patagonia family in myriad ways—he had a natural
eye for product design and became one of our most
articulate and valued product testers. Many of the
Backcountry Touring designs in this catalog trace
back in part to Dave’s observations and input. Deeply
respected by his fellow ambassadors, he was the
instigator of many powder-laden adventures that we’ll
never forget.
He will be deeply missed.
Recognized as one of the world’s preeminent ski mountaineers, Dave Rosenbarger epitomized the pure passion skier— someone deeply committed to the sport, unmotivated by cameras or limelight.
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Dave Rosenbarger polishes the Col des Cristaux. Chamonix, France. Cedric Bernardini
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move smoothly through the backcountry. With a close-fitting, slim-profile design, plenty of capacity and dedicated
space for snow safety tools, all SnowDrifters have multiple carry options for skis, boards and ice axes. See page 47.
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Cover: The first time she saw it as a young girl, the vast Jumbo Valley carved itself into the heart of skier Leah Evans. Years later, she’s part of the movement to protect the valley from development. Evans carves her wish into the table of the Jumbo Hut. Central Purcell Mountains, British Columbia, Canada. Garrett Grove
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