Well wasn’t that a year?

Right! Time to move on! Welcome to you 2022. Try not to be such a restricting bastage as that plague tormented turn around the sun known as 2021!

Thanks to 2021 being only slightly better than 2020 due to COVID-19 and its 4,037 variants, we just didn’t get out much and when we did, shooting conditions were not optimal. See also: wildfires and thick smoke.

The following is a brief look back at our ramblings around the East Kootenay, with smatterings of images relevant to a pandemic year – one for the memory banks for so many of us.

It was once again a blessing to be able to ride out a pandemic on the warm(er) side of the Rockies.

Locations pictured include: Cokato; Columbia Valley/River/Wetlands; Cranbrook; Fernie; Invermere; Kimberley; Sparwood; Lake Windermere; Radium Hot Springs; Edgewater and area; Fairmont Hot Springs; Kootenay National Park; Lumberton area; Picture Valley; Ha Ha Creek area; Bill Nye Wildfire images; Bull River area; Canal Flats area; Columbia Lake; Lazy Lake/Wasa; Ktunaxa Nation; and the Gold Creek area.

Lead image: The Cranbrook Water Tower Marmot. Ian Cobb/e-KNOW photo

Ian Cobb and Carrie Schafer/e-KNOW photos

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