Not editing today…heading for Whirlwind Peak instead.

Last year the mountains around Squamish and Whistler felt too big and intimidating to venture into much further than the ski area boundary. I didn’t want to get caught in an avalanche and didn’t know how to avoid it, or how to know if I was avoiding it or not. As with all these things, one step at a time.

(Taking a course helps.)

Now we push our way into new valleys and over new ridges slowly and cautiously, feeling like pioneers and glowing with our discoveries.

Sometimes I miss what I think of as my Scottish roots, and my familiarity with some of the mountains there. I think about jumping the BC ship. But you have to let yourself get into a place to allow it into you. The further we nudge our little boundaries outwards, the more we see just beyond and note down to explore next time.