Nothing Compares to the Alberta Rockies

It was a 15-hour trek from Winnipeg, across the flat, frozen prairie, that began Kyle Pressman’s obsession with mountain life in Canmore.

As a university student in the early 1990s, Pressman’s drive out to Alberta was to ski with his buddies. However, the adrenalin rush of downhill skiing in the deepest powder he’d ever known hit hard and there was no going back. He fell in love with the Bow River Valley, working in local hotels to support his new hobby. He built his first home there in 1997 …