Rocky Mountain Wilderness Society

06/15/2026

CHANGE IN LOCATION!! RMWS annual general meeting is this coming weekend, June 20th. We had planned to hold it at Kinky Lake campground but with rain forecast for this week the road into the site could be muddy so we don’t want to take that risk. We moved your destination site to the Brule Campground where there is pavement and have the sites available Thursday through Sunday. If you have any questions please contact me. Saturday: Meeting at 10 am and potluck that evening as per usual.

One of our directors and long time saddle maker Reg Marek will talk on the principles of saddle fitting.

Ken

05/10/2026

Reminder the RMWS Annual General Meeting 2026. We were waiting for news from Alberta Parks in to the Hay River staging area, where we usually hold are AGM. There is plans to do some major work on the berm along the Hay River and installation of another bridge close to the existing one on the Hay River. We haven’t heard the start date yet so we will be having our AGM at the Kinky Lake campground on June 20th at ten AM. The campground is booked from Friday through Monday if you wish to camp. There will be a pot luck supper Saturday as usual and lots of stories. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to call us.

02/28/2026

The Board of the Rocky Mountain Wilderness Society extends our deepest condolences to the Peacock,Klein and Hills families who have suffered the heartbreaking loss of their daughters. In a rural community like ours, where every family is woven into the fabric of daily life, such loss is felt by all of us. We hold you in our thoughts as you navigate this unimaginable grief, and we stand with you in compassion, solidarity, and quiet remembrance.

12/24/2025

On behalf of the board of directors of RMWS we want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year.
Ken & Shelli

12/16/2025

We just came across this so thought we'd share! There's been quite a few more made since and Tree Line Design & Graphics are ready to make more! If you'd like one with your brand or design please email Ken at [email protected]

Some custom license plates for Rocky Mountain Wilderness Society. 🐴

11/25/2025

Eagles Nest Cabin was started prior to 1918 when Canada joined forces in the first world war. Then in the spring of 1920 Jack Glen a Dominion forest ranger and Sam Munson a part time worker headed in to finish the cabin. Spring and early summer of 1920 were extremely hot but they managed to get the walls and roof finished. The cabin remained in that state until 1928. This was when Jack Glen with help from Bill Smith went back and laid the floor using full logs then used an adze to carve them down to a smooth floor. This gave the rangers two finished cabins with another one started in 1927 at Big Grave. The Big Grave cabin was built by Louis Holm another ranger from the Entrance district. The cabin was built to a shell state with a door and a few years later Jack Glen went in and finished the inside work. You will notice the roof line was different on these two cabins than any of the other cabins they made. The Eagles Nest cabin was located along the foot of the hill close to where the point camp is between the Indian trail and the Mountain trail. This cabin burnt in the early 70’s

11/18/2025

Summit Cabin has been an icon in the Wilmore Wilderness Park since it became a Park in 1956, and long before that for many travelers through the Rock Creek Valley. Three men working as Rangers for the Canadian Government protecting the Dominion Forest; Jack Glen and Bill Smith stationed out of Entrance and Tom Coggins stationed at Brule. They built the cabin to a rough shell state in 1928 and Jack Glen finished the cabin it in 1929. This cabin has never been locked and has always been available for use if a government employee wasn't using it.
Over the years the elements started to take its toll on the structure with the bottom round of logs rotting away causing the cabin to sink on one side and the floor starting to heave in the middle.
That is when the RMWS got involved knowing how important this cabin was to many travelers traveling through the valley. In 2015 RMWS proposed an upgrade to this iconic piece of history.
We planned to replace the bottom round of logs, reset the floor, c***k the logs and put shutters on the windows. This attempt turned into a journey as no one in the government that we delt with knew anything about this cabin, because the area manager for this area had left his position to work in private Industry. We were so excited about the rebuild we bought all the material to do the job and stored it in a garage waiting for the go ahead. We pushed hard for a few years with no luck but, not willing to give up. The winter of 2019 saw a new regional manager in charge so I brought up the rebuild at a meeting with her and she was interested. We never let up and finally got permission in April of 2020, we put the wheels in motion and developed a plan with Richard and Jan Aarsen two RMWS members who are very knowledgeable carpenters and log builders. They arranged a crew utilizing family and friends along with another RMWS member Larry Young agreeing to be the cook.
So in the summer of 2020 Richard and Jan gathered their crew up and headed into mile 58 and did the upgrade on Summit Cabin. Hopefully it will be around for another 100 years providing shelter and protection for travelers through the Rock Creek valley.

11/14/2025

This is a picture of Summit Cabin just after it was built in 1929 i believe.

11/11/2025

Some things never change over the years. We took a young fella by the name of Cam out on our first trip in 2012 as a youth in our mentorship program. He came back again in 2023 while working for Alberta Parks, looks a little more mature but still spent a lot of time in the cook tent cleaning out bowls. Aways hungry!

11/08/2025

The original three cabins built in the Wilmore Park in the early 1900's for patrol purposes starting with Summit Cabin, Big Graves and Sheep Creek.