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Rider type: Slopestyle, Freeride: Medal record. Competition; ... Kurt Sorge is a freeride mountain biker from Nelson, British Columbia, Canada, born on 28 November 1988.
Nelson is a city located in the Selkirk Mountains on the West Arm of Kootenay Lake in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada.Known as "The Queen City" and acknowledged for its impressive collection of restored heritage buildings from its glory days in a regional silver rush, Nelson is one of the three cities forming the commercial and population core of the West Kootenay region, the ...
Cottonwood Lake south of Nelson. Cottonwood Lake is a lake in the Selkirk Mountains in the West Kootenay region of the Regional District of Central Kootenay in British Columbia, Canada. [1] The lake is the fed by Cottonwood Creek, which has its source just south of the lake near Apex Summit at the Highway 6 turnoff for Whitewater Ski Resort. [2]
The Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway (N&FS) is a historic railway that operated in the West Kootenay region of southern British Columbia.The railway's name derived from a misspelling of Fort Shepherd, a former Hudson's Bay Company fort, on the west bank of the Columbia River immediately north of the border.
A railway had been completed from Kootenay Landing to Nelson, and steamboat service between the two points was no longer required. [ 18 ] CPR leased Nasookin to the government of British Columbia, to be used to carry motor vehicles from Frasers Landing, which was located near Proctor, on the north side of the west arm of the lake, to Gray Creek ...
Bonnington Falls is a community on the north side of the Kootenay River between the cities of Castlegar and Nelson, in the West Kootenay region of southern British Columbia. It was named after the adjacent Bonnington Falls, now submerged by hydro dams. [1] [2]
The popular belief is that Nelway is a contraction of "Nelson and Spokane highway" or the Nelson and Fort Sheppard Railway, which passed in the vicinity. [2] Canada has had a customs office in the Nelson area since 1900, but this particular crossing did not exist until the Pend Oreille Highway was completed in 1921. The highway on the BC side ...