The weather seems to be cooperating today. We traveled from Banff, Alberta west to the helicopter pad located just south of Golden, British Colombia. We are now in the Columbia Mountains (goodbye Rockies). Helicopter safety training important points: 1) the closer you are the safer you are and 2) KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN 3) the downdraft WILL knock you over so get on your knees. It is a short but exciting 15 min ride to the lodge. After lunch we head out for our first hike up Mañana peak. We only get sprinkled on today… not bad. Our group includes Christian a reporter / videographer from CBC (Canadian Television station), Josie (freelance photographer for Westworld magazine) and her husband Ryan (freelance writer), Melanie (from Richmond VA), Jason & Melissa (Jason works for CMH) and Tina & Ken (couple from Calgary area). Today was about what I expected, amazing views and a moderate hike. We saw numerous signs of Grizzlies (fresh digs, prints and fresh scat) but no actual bears.
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Beginning in northwest Montana, the Purcell Mountains rise and march northward into British Columbia, where they become a spectacular, forest and glacier-clad uplift, a part of what are generically called the Columbia Mountains. The Purcells parallel both the Canadian Rockies to their east and their sister range, the Selkirks, on the west.
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