I've visited many times in the Castlegar / Salmo area. It's nice country down there this time of year and I am glad this happened in the summer as the fall/winter conditions could of resulted in a very different story...
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

John Lubbock