"Take It Easy"
I said on publishing my last update on 12 August that I would aim to do another mid to late September once I had made sufficient progress to report. It is now 29 October, some 11 weeks on. The seasons have changed dramatically in that time from the dry high summer heat which was accompanied by a significant smoke haze throughout most of August due to an increased number of BC wildfires. In late July it was forecast that this year would be BC's fourth or fifth year in terms of the wildfire record set last year, but by the end of August it had become the second. This years were more numerous but generally smaller, and the situation was perhaps only mitigated by an unusually wet June. E arly September saw the temperatures drop and the arrival of sufficient rain to put a littler moisture back into the topsoil, and the smoke haze cleared to once again reveal the mountain panorama. A month later on 2 October, a cold blast funnelled through the mountains from t...