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Published on Friday, 05 October 2018 11:40

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One blown boot r1 Managing editor Carol Linnitt trekked across the volcanic Spectrum Range in broken boots. It both was and wasn't pretty. ...

Imagine for a moment, won’t you, that you’ve just been dropped off in the wilderness for six days. You’ve got your pack. You’ve got your food. You’ve got your guide.

Everything seems to be going rather well until you feel it — that slow tear at the seam of your boot that has you looking down and seeing your toes peeking out from below.

That’s pretty much where I found myself last month, out exploring the backcountry in Mount Edziza Provincial Park at the invitation of a Tahltan First Nation cultural guide.

A bad boot in the middle-of-nowhere is well…bad news.

We often have hilarious adventures and sometimes just straight up misadventures in the midst of our reporting. And these are more often than not, stories that go untold, seen as proximal to the real story.

But this time my boots —my ridiculous, old blundering why-did-my-mother-give-these-to-me boots — both came apart and became a part of the story. I just couldn’t find a way to write around them.

So this week we bring you something a little different in the mix: a slightly ridiculous tale of outdoor adventuring gone awry wherein, once again, we learn that we’re at the mercy of the fates and friends (and, yes, poor planning too). No matter how simple we want the world to be, complexity floods in, challenging us to see things and places and people differently.

This experience for me was a reminder that we can always do things better. And that I should always always pack extra tape.

But don’t let this sprawling feature photoessay worry you — we’ve still got all the everyday, original and fresh reporting you know us for.

This week we also have a bombshell in-depth feature by Sarah Cox on the secretive Site C oversight board, an investigation into Teck Resources and how they escaped over $12,000 in fines and a doozey of a feature on the beleaguered fate of Imperial Metals.

This and so much more. Enjoy.


Carol Linnitt
Managing Editor


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