Welcome to British Columbia

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