"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." 1854 - Henry David Thoreau. Little blue cabin. Bowron Lake, British Columbia, Canada
Thick snow encrusts some pines in the Hart ranges of the Northern Rockies. Northern British Columbia, Canada
The endless layers of forest stretch out when looking over the foothills to the south east of Prince George. In the high resolution version you can just make out some ski runs on Mt Purden in the top left of the shot.