This past year has been – weird. Weird, unruly and annoying. And that take has nothing to do with it also being Year One of The Trump Reign of Error. It sums up the weather and atmospheric conditions in the East Kootenay.

Winter 2017 was a snowmageddon followed by a squishy spring that allowed great forest undergrowth to feed the following summer of wildfires and smoke.

Autumn, my favourite season, was going to save 2017 – but it didn’t. From nothing special to the start of winter Nov. 1. What can you do?

The photographs contained within once again illustrate aspects of our ramblings around the East Kootenay from Sept. 21 to Dec. 20.

Images were taken in/around: Bull River, Cranbrook, Edgewater, Fairmont Hot Springs, Fernie, Fort Steele, Invermere, Kimberley, Ktunaxa Nation, Moyie, Norbury Lake, Radium Hot Springs, Skookumchuck, Wardner and Yahk.

Lead image: Radium Hot Springs as seen from the Red Rock Road overlook. Ian Cobb/e-KNOW

Photos by Carrie Schafer and Ian Cobb/e-KNOW

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