Identifying Plants with Arta and the Miracle of Cell Phones

 

On Arta's birthday, Bonnie took me for a hike at Tsutswecw Provinaicl Park (about 1 hour drive from the cabins) to see the pictographs there.

Tsutswecw Provincial Park

During our walk Bonnie said to me, "look, wild ginger." Many memories were flooding back to us of walking in the forest with Arta and her pointing out different plants and trees during our childhood right up to our adult lives. We spent a long time talking about these memories while we walked.

Today I cam across this recipe for wild ginger syrup so thought I should share it and share some photos from our hike that day.

Wild Ginger Syrup - Chef Adler

 

Bonnie had been on this hike before so she knew just where to head off the path down toward the river.  We climbed up to a spot where the river narrows and drops in elevation so there are some beautiful rapids.  This is where you will find the pictographs.  There is a nice information board there that tells you a little about the indigenous people who lived on the territory and who would have created the pictographs, and about the current efforts to protect and preserve them.

 

We decided to get our feet naked and enjoy the very, very cold mountain runoff water.  Numbingly delicious.

On our walk back, we decided to give Arta a birthday phone call.  We weren't sure if we would have reception, but sure enough the phone rang and Arta answered.  We marveled at the fact that we could be walking in a mountain forest and just call her up.