WHEN YOU LOOK at a map of southern BC you see a lot wrinkles. Those are mountains, and where you find mountains you find meadows, valleys, wildflowers, waterfalls, and alpine lakes. Thankfully there are organizations of trail builders — most, if not all of them, volunteers — that give us access to the rugged wilderness. In the summer you can be hiking in bright sunshine in a tanktop and hit snow, and in the winter the mountains become the playgrounds of cross- and back-country skiers and splitboarders, snowshoers, and ice climbers. This is but a small number of excellent hikes across the lower part of BC, spanning from Whistler to the Kootenays. Let it inspire you to strap on your boots and breathe air as nature intended it to be breathed.
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