The footprints of North America’s mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and camels are long gone, as is the evidence today of prehistoric Chewaucan Lake, whose waters once eroded a series of caves in a remote bluff…
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Winter in beautiful British Columbia is a lot more than powder-covered slopes and alpine adventures in the backcountry. We’ve gathered a list of cozy log-cabin getaways, daytrip ideas and rainy-day hideaways throughout the province,…
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When I was a young lass, I was lucky enough to have friends with a cabin in Tulameen on Otter Lake, near Princeton, British Columbia. I spent many summers and winters there swimming and…
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Megan Yáláƛí Humchitt’s sudden stop almost caused me to collide with her. The dense rainforest had closed in around us as soon as we stepped up from the rocky beach. With pale light filtering…
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The original Watersprite Trail wasn’t designed for the masses. Rough, rooty, muddy, steep, at the end of a rough logging road and cutting through a sensitive bog, it only attracted the hardy few. Mostly…
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The VHF radio call comes early in the morning. “I’ve spotted a mother humpback with a young one who’s dragging a bunch of nets or something,” the excited sport fisherman says. Immediately afterwards, the…
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This is a story about how dreams die. It’s about idealism and reality, yearning and deception, resilience and frustration. In these ways, it is an account—all too human—of how time can whittle a great…
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Standing in the middle of the highway, I’m watching the northern sky, hoping for the green glow of the aurora borealis. Above me are drifting clouds and a few patches of bright stars. But…
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The air was icy and the morning sun was just brightening the sky when fishing guide Campbell Bryk, owner of Elevated Fishing Adventures, pulled up outside my hotel in Sun Peaks, British Columbia. A…
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