The trees swallowed Peter whole that summer, 1982, when he wandered into them with a rucksack and a heart unmoored. A fresh graduate, ink still wet on his degree, he’d packed fishing rods and a camera, chasing clarity in the wilds of Oregon’s Cascades. The dirt trail frayed after a mile or two, leaving him alone with the pines, their needles a carpet soft underfoot, their branches a roof against the sky. He wanted solitude, the kind that whispers answers when the world grows too loud. By the third day, he’d begun to hear it—or thought he had.
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Shadows Along the Kootenays
Winter had draped its frosty embrace across the rugged terrain of British Columbia’s West Kootenays. In the heart of January, when the air held a biting chill, the natural world often clung to a silent slumber. But in the midst of this stillness, a secret was about to be unveiled that would forever alter the perspective of two curious souls.
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