Scott Forsyth

An ethereal feeling last night seeing the aurora right over our aviation medical clinic hanger at Springbank. The airport was peaceful and quiet and seemed connected to this other worldly display. 'Ground control to Major Tom...."

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The healing effect of being in the presence of large scale natural environments is no better experienced than being in the presence of a valley of glaciers.

On our second morning at Cariboos Mountain Lodge, a helicopter transported us to a valley ledge from where I launched a drone to fly over this glacier that appears to be 'draped' over the mountain its shaping.

Looking straight down at the sheet of ice sliding into the valley, the textured lines of time, like tree rings, are a pictograph into the distant past, reminding us our fleeting presence here in this miraculous landscape.

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