Darker mornings. Cooler and it feels good. Been rearranging the wood pile to make sure last years wood gets burned first.
Good to get out mid week and walk up the mountains.
There is still a lot of tourists doing dumb things. Lisa and I ran into a bunch today. They can’t help it. They have been told they can’t do the things they have been doing for years due to Covid, and the recent forest fires.
It is a free for all now. Just look at the news.
Tourists, especially from Alberta, have taken a stand and, damned and determined, hell or high-water, regardless of right or wrong are going to do as they damn well please. They have been held back long enough. Unfortunately, they exercise it on vacation.
I mention Alberta, but it’s the same everywhere in cities. Too many people too close to each other with the only thing in common is buying shit.
If you live here you see it. Even the part time workers can’t wait to get away come September.
It’s a different world. One where you can’t believe the news, reliable sources have become sketchy pushing an agenda.
Everyone has bought in, taking from what they want to believe. Forgetting there is only one truth and importance, helping.
Palliser Pass 
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Our Mountain Rescue teams, all volunteers, are getting a real hammering due to the same sorts of attitudes from the multitudes of tourists. People are calling them out as they get lost on the hills in a mist (they can’t navigate, have no mountain experience and rely on mobile phones to navigate). They’re calling them out as they’ve taken a stupid route and don’t have the sense to reverse it when they find they don’t like it. They’re calling them out because they’re up the hill and they’re cold and wet (mountains ARE cold and wet!). Even the paid ambulance workers are abusing them as, if someone turns an ankle in a field near the road, they won’t leave the roadside to pick them up and call the unpaid mountain rescuers – thereby taking them away from their jobs etc. and probably losing them money.
Some of the rescuers have been out many times this year for over 24 hours as one rescue has followed straight on top of another and they’ve had to do 3 or 4 in a day. And that’s been most weeks. How they all stick to it I’ve no idea – I would’ve left by now!
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