Mountain Meadow Hiking with Kaoru

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace. – Milan Kundera A couple of weeks ago, I finally took a much needed (and long overdue) adventure to British Columbia, Canada – for the very first time. I have been calling Toronto my home-base for a year and a half again now (since returning from living in Costa Rica) and have been feeling very landlocked and trapped by this urban jungle as a result. The mountains were beckoning and I had to listen to their call. I connected with a close friend living in Squamish and arranged to stay with her for the duration of my visit so she could act as a bit of a tour guide and adventure buddy. On one particularly beautiful and sunny day, my pal and I packed up the car and headed north to spend the day hiking through Callaghan Country, within the Callaghan Valley – a gorgeous area to explore in the warm summer months. The valley is bordered by a ringwall of five mountains, including the potentially active Mount Cayley and the dormant […]