Welcome to British Columbia

[mbarrick]

Living in Vancouver always has a vague edge-of-the-word feeling. The mountains are always there to the north. They loom over the city and everyone knows on some visceral level that they aren't just some ripple in the Earth that one could hike over in a day. Beyond Black, Strachan, Hollyburn, Grouse, Fromme, and Seymour is 2,500 Km of this:

The Coast Mountains with the Bute Inlet visible upper left


The Squamish pulp mill at the head of Howe Sound

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[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

i've taken the flight from here to bella coola which goes directly over the coast mountains, and they are just amazing...those inlets and fjords, not to mention the incredible glaciers...it's pretty amazing just how rugged, and pristine, the west coast is...

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

It inspires a lot of respect for lunatics like Alex Fraser who had the balls to pick up and walk through this.

Have you ever seen the "Earth at Night (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights2_dmsp_big.jpg)" composite photo? The blackness of BC says everything about how empty the wilderness here really is.

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[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

that's a pretty amazing photo...and it's amazing how little light there is in bc outside of the lower mainland...something else that impressed me was those incredibly huge inlets and you would see one boat in miles and miles of water...and not another in sight...and the trees went straight to the shore...there must be some incredible wilderness to explore there...and true wilderness because you realize that if something happens to you out there you are the only soul around for 100s of miles...yeh those pioneers who traversed the wilderness of bc really had balls...and you've got to admire the indigenous peoples who have made this province their home for hundreds of thousands of years...