Rock Garden Trail

At the end of July, I packed up my favorite summer clothes and headed towards family in Vernon, British Columbia. I wanted to go where the wild fruit trees are wide, a place where moss and spider webs convene. The roads you travel to get to there are endless in beauty; mountain slopes and pine trees surround you.

 We took breaks from the road along the way but my favorite of them all was the Rock Garden Trail.  In front of the trail there was an abandoned parking lot and a sign that warned us of six hundred pound beasts that call the trail home, Grizzly bears. We quickly realized that we were the only humans around and it made our hearts beat like tiny kick drums.

The trail leads through moss and lichen covered boulder fields that date back to the last Ice Age. As you walk the only sound is the creaking of your steps on the boardwalk and the faint sound of cars in the distance. It is equally beautiful and terrifying. What if I fall? What if the beast of the forest sees me? Is it possible to vanish from earth if I am west of the highway? Is there anybody out there? When you wander into wild territory, there is no telling what may become of you.

I think that is why human beings need the wilderness. It exists to remind us of how small and delicate we are. There is a world of lichen and rock that has been growing -- long before my grandmother was even a pebble in her mother's belly. There are pine trees, still standing, that have made shadow and shelter for generations of grizzly bears. What a remarkable world.

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