I’ve lived in Edmonton, Alberta (metro region population 1,418,118 as of 2021) since 1987. I grew up though in a small B.C. mountain mining town called Elkford (population 2,749) and while I love the city in which I live, the mountains are still, and will always be, home.

We spend at least one week a year in the Columbia Valley, ranging up and down the valley from my birth town of Kimberly all the way up to Golden. We siege our time hiking, fishing, and more recently, golfing.

Here I taught my kids how to tie a lure and clean a trout. My wife and I taught them how to be quiet and listen to the trees in the back country – and how to use bear spray 😉

This is our first summer here without the kids. Good fiends are joining us, thus the more golfing than hiking, but Sue and I did get a nice little jaunt in this afternoon, trail still damp from a morning of rain. No fish today, though no bears either. Just the bush and this:

I hope you’re enjoying your summer and that you get to spend it where, and with who, you are happiest.