You are so right it take a lot to plan and not much to get hurt or buried or worse out in the beauty of the Western Canadian Mountains.
I have notice the same in other cultures from all around the world. People think that all of Canada is nice and easy and approach it the same way, with the mindsets of there home land. I have had people from the Alps want to go and run out into the woods without checking or knowing where they go because back home there are paths and people and cell coverage everywhere. They don't get the vast unpopulated wilderness and scope to which they walk into. I like there enthusiasm but caution them about just going and running into what could be a fatal mistake. Some people like to learn the painful way. Too bad it is at the cost of our country people that pay the price for others ignorance.
Yes many COs know it is the humans fault 99.999% of the time. The real animals are the humans who decide that throwing trash every where and feeding majestic animals junk food is appropriate. Sad to see how dirty those human animals can be. As an example we shall set the tone.
I read commitment to making that book a reality in your last sentence, hooray. Let me know if I can be of service to such matters.
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Awe, that's very sweet of you, it wont be for a while still, I need more hikes so I can cover each area really good. I agree on who the real animals are, it's heart breaking. It's a big problem with Banff's wolf population. Def no cell coverage everywhere here, not even close. I do my fair share of winging it but I try to be smart about it and have spent good deal of time in them hills. What part of Canada are you from if you don't mind me asking?
Much legwork is necessary for good coverage and good reporting. Shame you have to do all that hiking through all that beauty. :-) There are certain liberties that come with experience in a given mountain range, country region specific, as you know that takes time. Okanagan for the time being. Are you on the East or west of Them Hills?
It's a lot of legwork indeed omg! I know, it's a terrible punishment to dip my feet un such clear pristine freezing waters (summer)at the destination too...or to drink that Canyon or glacier water strait from the source (winter)😁 #watertasters. Okanagan, nice! Never been but heard a lot of nice things. Been trying to make my way there but that's a bit of a drive! I'm in Edmonton so Jasper is pretty close 3 h away. I do Banff and Kananaskis Country a fair bit too but Jasper is my playground, I can't seem to make it passed Mount Robson, I get sucked in early in the mountains. I want to do more in the Radium area last summer but then covid happened. I spend about a month per year in the mountains, more if I can afford it.
How terrible to drink from Mountain streams and walk in cold fresh clean water. I carried a bottle of mountain water from the park with me for ten years just to take a sip again.
Yes it is very nice further out west and not as cold all the time. You should come for the cherry blossom in the valley. It will be a week or two of them blooming from south to north in the valley and the air is sweet. Your blog and contributors will thank you for it.
So it sounds like you have to make that book published, so you can afford to keep making more great posts.
I like the cold. Ice caves, walking on water, frozen waterfalls...
I work as a seasonal worker in the skilled trades, I maneuver around funding, I don't expect to take profit from here for a while. When is the cherry blossom season? I love that idea if I'm going to pick a time of year. The only problem spring is one of my work seasons and I'm super busy but will keep that in mind.
How about you, do you plan on posting the beauty of Okanagan and B-C?
You are in the right place for the cold. Trades can be cold in the winter though. I intend to do the same by keeping all in with the Hive, growth.
As for the time to come, late April to mid May is when Cherry Pears Apples Peaches are flowing in bloom. It smells and looks wonderful.
I likely wont be in the valley for the show this season. Jumping over to your side of tem Hills.
I don't work winter, only spring and falll. Oh right on, give you new areas to visit then! I bet it's quite the sight. We have a lot of crab apple blossoms, I'm sure is similar when in bloom. There is a Japanese Forested Botanical Garden that belongs to U of A agriculture and environmental, botanic& exotic butterfly studies just outside the city that offers a similar experience (I know I's not the same). Instead of cherry blossoms, it's apple blossoms. Calgary might have one too depending where you are moving to.