Welcome to the website of Bill Corbett. Here, you’ll find a mix of things I do for a living – write magazine articles and guidebooks, write/edit annual reports and newsletters, and teach writing classes. You’ll also read about things I passionately do for fun – climb mountains and ski in the backcountry – and see some photographs from my adventures. I hope you’ll be informed and entertained.
Books I've Written
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Day Trips From Calgary
(Whitecap Books, 2010) – Explores the diverse landscapes, communities and history of south-central Alberta within a two-hour drive of Calgary.
A new, expanded and completely revised edition of my Day Trips From Calgary book has been published. It features two new trips and updated entries on the best places to find coffee, lunches and snacks in the routes covered in the book. More than 50,000 copies of the book have now been sold.
An updated edition of
11,000ers of the Canadian Rockies has been published and
includes revisions and corrections from the original, 2004,
edition.
An Alberta Trailnet map on trails of
northeast Alberta – I wrote the text – won a 2008 Alto
provincial tourism award. To view and order the map, check
http://www.albertatrailnet.com/nemap.html
I’ve been a full-time writer for 30 years and counting, the first five as a newspaper reporter and the rest as a Calgary-based freelance writer. Except for a two-year exile, I’ve always lived in Alberta – the first half in Edmonton, the second in Calgary – and have explored much of it extensively. One result is my guidebook Day Trips From Calgary (Whitecap Books).
Since moving to Calgary in 1980, I’ve spent countless weekends and holidays mountaineering, backcountry skiing, hiking and taking photos in the nearby Canadian Rockies and, occasionally, ranges to the west. In 2002, I became the third person to climb all 54 of the 11,000-foot peaks in the Canadian Rockies. This led to my latest book,
The 11,000ers of the Canadian Rockies (Rocky Mountain Books).
