A stormy sunset up in a remote stretch of the North Thomson River. Summer seems such a long time ago now as we are in the grip of winter. We have not had any super cold (sub -30oC/-22oF) yet this season, although it did dip briefly down to -22oC (-7.6oF ) this past week. I took this shot while solo camping up along the North Thomson River last summer when the rest of the family was down in the US visiting some relativities. Sometimes you just need to get away from everything; or at least I do. To me isolation, both physical and mental, provokes a much deeper level of thought. Clearing out the noise creates room for creativity. Political systems dominated by candidates who can speak the loudest tend to favour school and social systems that encourage extrovertism, this is despite the evidence that this does not necessarily make the best leaders and decision makers. Quiet reflective thought seems to be a lost art from a bygone era. It does not have to be this way; check out some of the work by Susan Cain about the Quiet Revolution. Despite being taken from the upper stretches of the North Thomson River, the peak in the photo actually lies in the North Eastern Section of Wells Gray Provincial Park. It sits at 2480m (8140ft) high and seems to be unnamed despite its obvious prominence lying between the Ojibwa NE4 and Metis Peak massifs.
Sunrise over the island with a freezing fog at Ness Lake. I was frustrated at these clouds from blocking the aurora the night before but they did somewhat redeem themselves the next morning. This is a high resolution multi-shot panorama. Ness Lake, British Columbia, Canada
Looking across Outpost Lake in the Tonquin Valley. We stayed a night at Wates-Gibson Hut in the torrential rain so it was nice to be able to walk out in the morning without packing up our tents in the mud. The clouds parted a little that morning ; just enough to let a few rays of sun through and give us some hope that it would not rain continuously for the remaining three days of the hike.
