Keep Jumbo Wild
Words: Mike Berard Right: Jumbo Valley. Central Purcell Mountains, British Columbia, Canada. Garrett Grove
The Fight to Protect Jumbo Glacier 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-centurylong 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.
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The first time Leah Evans stood in southern
development and a year-round ski resort.
would reach 11,217 feet—B.C.’s highest ski
British Columbia’s (B.C.) majestic Jumbo
Then they told her something even
resort. Over the past 24 years, Italian-born,
Valley, she remembers, “All the large trees
more shocking.
Vancouver-based architect Oberto Oberti
were shining, reflecting in the lake. There
“You’ll have to save this place.”
has tried to get “Jumbo” (local shorthand
were more glaciers than I have ever seen
So in seventh grade, in 2000, when
in one place. It has been etched in my mind
Evans’s teacher asked her to write an
drafting table and into reality. Beyond the
ever since.” The Rossland, B.C.-raised skier
essay about a controversial topic, this
small, bizarre victory of having an imaginary
had been brought to this rare, wild environ-
wild valley—threatened with one of B.C.’s
town of Jumbo legitimized as a Mountain
ment in the Purcell Mountains as a preteen
most contentious developments—was her
Resort Municipality (Jumbo the town has no
outdoorswoman, by parents she refers to
immediate choice. “I feel like people don’t
residents, no infrastructure and no tax base,
as “first-generation adventurers.” Together,
know what is back there. It is so huge, and
but has a mayor and town council), there
her family had traveled via a ‘70s-era motor
you’re so small. You have to go to understand
has been very little movement. Spend time
home to Alaska, the Yukon Territories
the magnitude of what could be lost.” She’s
speaking to residents of the Kootenays—
for the proposed development) off the
and Bella Coola, but Evans immediately
been writing the Jumbo essay ever since.
B.C.’s famous ski and snowboard mecca—and
felt a unique, powerful connection to the
you start to understand why. Very few
Jumbo Valley.
Glacier Resort would offer 5,900 vertical
residents want this thing.
feet of year-round skiing on a proposed
a hard truth: The Jumbo Valley was in
20–30 ski lifts over 5,925 hectares of terrain
26-year-old Evans says. “I’ve grown up with
danger of being marked with a real-estate
spanning four glaciers. The highest terrain
the issue, and the government hasn’t been
As she stood there, her parents revealed
At full build-out, the proposed Jumbo
“I’ve watched it unfold my whole life,” the
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 Right: In 1974, activist John Bergenske helped establish the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Park, the only intact ecosystem in southeastern B.C. After several days traversing the contested Jumbo region, Bergenske pauses for a moment in the Jumbo Hut. Garrett Grove Below: Local skiers and snowboarders 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
listening. How can the plan still be alive when
that our beliefs should be acknowledged and
like Jumbo Glacier Resort; with a promise
so many people have said ‘no’ for so long?”
recognized on the same basis of other belief
of new, vast, lift-serviced terrain, one might
systems in this world.”
understand why. But the ambitious Jumbo
a Kimberley, B.C.-based organization with
Glacier Resort build-out plan includes 5,500
a mission to “protect biodiversity and
Invermere. He’s an Association of Canadian
hotel beds and 750 staff beds, while nearby,
encourage sustainable communities,” has
Mountain Guides ski guide, a professional
locally owned ski resorts like Panorama,
Those who say “no” are myriad. Wildsight,
stood with locals in staunch opposition
member of the Canadian Avalanche
Kicking Horse and Revelstoke struggle to
of Jumbo. “There are so many reasons to
Association and the newest director of the
stay viable in an industry that’s been on a
oppose the Jumbo Glacier Resort,” says
Jumbo Creek Conservation Society. Smith
steady decline for over a decade. What’s
Wildsight Executive Director Robyn Duncan:
has been backcountry skiing in the Purcells
built is built, and the effects on environment
for the past decade and guiding in this range
and community of any ski resort are not small nor easily reversible. They’re also especially
“the threat to grizzly bears, a glacial water
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Brodie Smith, 29, was born and raised in
supply, the fact that the area doesn’t need
for the last five years. He believes building
another ski hill, the desecration of sacred
a resort is shortsighted. “There’s a reason
poignant when resorts operate well under
First Nations territory and the end run around
Europeans and other people from around the
capacity year after year, as many do. Any
the democratic process. We’re united in our
world flock here to experience the wilderness
community or group of communities must
deep sense of place and our commitment to
of North America: They have very little left.
closely and fearlessly evaluate the need
keep Jumbo wild.”
By creating ski resorts,” says Smith, “we don’t
for another resort. It must ask itself and its
stand to gain more wilderness, only lose it.”
government: Do we need another ski area
Since 1946, local hunter, fisherman and
trapper Nolan Rad has mined the Purcell
Range’s deep, dark veins; logged their flanks;
For the past two decades a ubiquitous East
And then there is the collective community:
and pulled fish from the crisp streams that
Kootenay bumper sticker has proclaimed an
bisect the valleys. For the past 20 years, he
almost universal desire to keep “Jumbo Wild.”
here when so much hangs in the balance? * * * An immense, solitary creature, the grizzly
has served on the Jumbo Creek Conservation
The overwhelming sentiment seems to be that
Society. The Shuswap First Nations Band—the
communities in the Kootenays don’t want this
bear is more fragile than we believe, each
closest to Jumbo’s proposed site—agreed to
resort, don’t need it and consider themselves
requiring up to 2,000 square kilometers as a home range. When the home ranges of many
the project, citing “practical and meaningful
stronger without it.
economic opportunities,” but the much larger
Ktunaxa First Nation has opposed it, claiming
snowboarders around the globe ride lifts
of Jumbo Glacier Resort will most likely do—Ursus arctos horribilis will feel the effects.
The vast majority of skiers and
bears are fragmented—as the development
the Jumbo Valley is within a spiritual area
and love them, even those who claim the
called Qat’muk, the home of their Grizzly Bear
backcountry as their chosen playground. So
Fragmentation in the trans-border British
Spirit. “The Grizzly Bear Spirit is an important
there’s an inherent tension in the fact that
Columbia-USA region puts the resulting
part of our spiritual beliefs,” says Ktunaxa
many might drool in anticipation of, and
smaller grizzly populations at higher risk.
spokesperson Kathryn Teneese. “It is our view
initially support, a new ski-area development
DNA surveys done over a decade ago across
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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
Left: John Bergenske, Jasmin Caton and Leah Evans during a week-long ski traverse into the Jumbo Valley. Garrett Grove Right: Alex Yoder, Jumbo Pass area. British Columbia, Canada. Steve Ogle
the central and south Purcell Mountains found that there were
you when you mention the word Jumbo in any public venue. This
significantly fewer grizzly bears in the Purcell Mountains than
is what community is—people finding a common voice in support
the B.C. government estimated—in some cases, that number
of their needs. In the Kootenays, those needs are often wild,
was not far from the threshold for being considered threatened
untamed places. A real-estate development and a government
by B.C. government standards. Dr. Michael Proctor—one of the
designation don’t make a community. People do, and the people
world’s leading bear biologists—says this is disturbing, not only
who live here have never wanted Jumbo Glacier Resort.
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
“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
the larger Canadian regional Purcell-Selkirk grizzly, as well as
heart and they settle. They did that in the Columbia Valley more
maintaining the international grizzly bear distribution extending
than a century ago. No one has wanted to put down roots in the
directly south into the United States.”
Jumbo Valley. Why would they? It’s so wild and raw. If there was
In other words, if bears cannot live and thrive in the Jumbo
supposed to be a community back there, there’d already be one.”
Valley, they may have trouble regionally in the long run.
ski resort that would deliver deep, light Purcells powder year* * *
Oberto Oberti has maintained that his dream is to build a
round in a location similar to his native Europe’s alpine regions. Backcountry skiers and splitboarders already love the Jumbo
Despite the creation of a resort municipality of Jumbo and some
area for its wide-open glacial turns, so why wouldn’t lift-access
hastily poured concrete foundations at the proposed resort site,
skiers? But the people who live in the communities most likely
Canadian Environment Minister Mary Polak still determined in
to be affected—skiers, snowboarders, hikers and climbers among
late June of 2015 that progress was insufficient. She found that “the physical activities undertaken ... did not meet the threshold
them—have asked themselves the question and answered it. They don’t want a resort here. They can visit more than a dozen
of a substantially started project” and that Glacier Resorts Ltd.
established ski resorts within a three-hour drive—including
would have to apply for a new environmental certificate to con-
Invermere’s own Panorama Mountain Village—and can still ski,
tinue. Meanwhile, for locals, certain facts remain obvious: There
hike and climb Jumbo Pass via their own two feet and a heartbeat.
is no town of Jumbo. No one lives there. Real towns spring up
They don’t need to impact raw lands that remain sacred to other
organically where like-minded people settle. They take time and
humans and critical for wildlife survival. Given the complex and
shared effort to develop into authentic communities, and this
often bizarre interplay between the Jumbo developers, the
corner of British Columbia is filled with great examples: Nelson,
British Columbia government and the opponents on the ground,
Golden, Revelstoke, Argenta, Rossland, Fernie, Invermere. You can
the convoluted battle over the Jumbo Valley may well rage on,
see community on the bumper stickers, in the roadblock protests
but the reasoning of the residents of the Kootenays has always
and during town council meetings. You can hear it in passionate,
come down to a starkly straightforward statement:
informed voices on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation morning talk shows. You can feel it in the sense of unity that rises around 08
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.
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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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Would-be developers of Jumbo Glacier Resort envision a
intrigue, grassroots activism, guerrilla demonstrations,
four-season ski resort and real-estate development that
government stop-work orders and impassioned community
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outcry against a resort that developers promise would be “a
Central Purcell Mountains—but local community members
snow rider’s dream.” All the while, a vast, raw environment,
continue to push back. In a new film, Waggoner and his
sacred to many First Nations people and critical for the
crew trace the fascinating and convoluted development of
existence of the grizzly bear, hangs in the balance.
the Jumbo story, from the developers’ initial presentation to the Canadian government for plan approval in 1993 to
To see the Sweetgrass film and learn more about the
today. The Jumbo story unfolds still, complete with political
Jumbo issue, visit patagonia.com/jumbowild
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Laura Yale and Nicolas Teichrob take the scenic route home after a visit with Glacier Dome. British Columbia, Canada. Steve Ogle
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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Sketchy conditions. Leah Evans in the Jumbo Hut. British Columbia, Canada. Garrett Grove
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Left: Patience pays off as Kye Petersen revels in some long-awaited fresh. Esplanade Range, British Columbia, Canada. Garrett Grove Right: When it storms, this is how we roll. Max Hammer and Alex Yoder, British Columbia, Canada. Steve Ogle
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Walking the Ground Two skiers talk about wild places, community and defending the mountains that move them
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
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.
You’d never skied together before this trip.
Jumbo resort have ever actually walked
How’d the dynamic work?
on that ground.
to appreciate the environment, but also to
Jasmin: A trip like this with new people
Jasmin: I totally agree. Having looked at
protect it?
can leave you with a feeling of, “Hmmm,”
the plans and then seeing the terrain with
Jasmin: A huge part of my job is capturing
but this was definitely a “YES.” Hanging
my eyes, I just … the pieces don’t add
people at a fresh state and then modeling
out with Leah has inspired me to try some
up. The glaciers are crumbling and big,
an appropriate interaction with the environment. We’re recreating in this
more exciting stuff. Our skills are really
with real relief and craggy rocks. There
complementary, and we can offer each
are proposed ski lifts where the terrain is
space, and we need to do it well. I also
other a lot.
totally rugged, there are runs that end at
guide a lot of the same people year after year so I see their evolution, see them tune
Leah: For sure. I watched everything
huge icefalls. Even if I wanted this resort
Jasmin did because she has such depth
to happen, I feel it’d be destined to fail,
in and make connections about climate
of experience out there. I’d see her do
or be much less than it’s supposed to be,
and snow conditions.
something with her pack or something,
in a very half-assed way.
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.
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So you try and inspire your clients not just
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
You went to see where the proposed Jumbo
university in Virginia on a field hockey
Glacier Resort would be if it came to pass.
scholarship. But my heart was just not in it.
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.
Can you describe it?
It was a matter of committing full-heartedly
Leah: I’ve skied in big mountains my entire
to something, and for me it was skiing.
life, but I definitely felt like, “Whoa, this
Jasmin: Academics were a huge part of
the extreme side of the backcountry. And
is jumbo terrain.” And to put a ski area in
my life, and I was given a great scholarship
yet the quiet and the expanse are a huge part of the actual experience for people.
Most ski movies today seem to celebrate
that valley makes no sense. As a forest
to university to study hydrogeology but
firefighter, I spent two years in this one field
never really left behind the mountains. I
Leah: I think we’re getting burnt out on
picking up sticks, I got to know each tree
find meaning in guiding that I never found
the speed of everything like Facebook
and log. Then they came and logged it, and
working a science job. I guess it’s how I
and Twitter. We want to be unplugged.
until then, I’d never felt what it was to be an
express my concern about nature and the
There’s something very organic about
environmentalist. I guess I’d love to know
wilderness. Guiding may seem frivolous,
getting up, putting your boots on and
if the people who are making plans for the
but it’s not frivolous at all.
going walking. It’s quieter but it’s more
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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. powerful. When you come out of a trip like
adjustments that hopefully keep the
Jasmin: Having something to stand
the traverse we just did, you’re not sure
numbers game from catching up to you.
behind, beyond our personal adventures,
you want to turn on your phone ever again.
It’s almost hard for me to get into Leah’s
has made for deeper conversations and
Jasmin: There’s a group of people I’ve
head and emulate an athlete like her, who
connections. People’s passion for the
guided several times who’d never done
skis with such confidence, because my
issue, and how they dedicate their energy
“ Without exception, every person who stands on top of a mountain on a calm day after touring there says, ‘It’s so quiet.’” anything other than cat-ski, but this year
brain is so in the habit of assessing, where
toward it, inspires me. It’s made me
they requested a week-long tour. I would
I think, “That looks fun, but what if it goes
realize how much I respect people who
never have predicted that. What drove
wrong?” I’m always asking, “What if?” So
care about and act on things beyond their
them to this touring thing, because they
to push myself physically to ski the way
personal pursuits.
definitely struggled physically … I think,
I know I can, I need the right balance of
even if they didn’t know they were seeking
confidence and caution.
it, they were drawn by the nonmechanized
Leah: I’ve always wanted to push myself,
nature of it. The silence, the expanse, the
see how fast I can go, what I can jump.
deeper commitment. Because in the end,
That always worked for me. But I got in
without exception, every person who
an avalanche recently and it rattled me.
stands on top of a mountain on a calm day
Now there’s a voice in my head that never
after touring there says, “It’s so quiet.”
existed before. Now I think, I love all these
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
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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.
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
backcountry terrain every winter is well
Your work takes you both to some incredible
awareness of the landscapes at stake and
over 100, so I always try to be vigilant with
places, but what makes a place home?
educating my clients would be a better use of my skills. But I’m staying in this
my assessments and to err on the side
Jasmin: Community. The people I work
of caution—hopefully not so I’m robbing
with. My husband. My dog. If I was there
fight. It’s shown me that it’s essential to
myself of experience, but regrouping all
by myself, a place wouldn’t be my place.
my happiness to be involved in something
the time. You have to make tons of small
The landscape might allow for all sorts of
bigger than just myself and my adventures.
Left: “My brain is so in the habit of assessing. I’m always asking, ‘What if?’” – Jasmin Caton Garrett Grove Above: “I’ve skied in big mountains my entire life, but I definitely felt like, ‘Whoa, this is Jumbo terrain.’” – Leah Evans Garrett Grove Right: Evans and Caton raise a can to the trip. Garrett Grove
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