Don’t take your good health, your ability and your youth for granted. Don’t take the little things in life for granted. Get out there, explore, meet people, make connections and appreciate everything around you, because life is so fleeting and when it’s all said and done you’ll want to be able to say that you lived it to its fullest.
But my experience in the Rockies taught me to make the most out of my travels, to get off the beaten path and to say yes. To say yes to crazy, unexpected and impulsive ideas and suggestions. Because in the end it’s always worth it.
It’d been a while. Several years. The last memory I had of this place was of being a child, and looking out from the back seat window, in awe, at the mountains rising up above me. Face pressed to the glass, transfixed to the beauty of the natural scenes around me. I must have been six, if not younger. At least eighteen years later, I found myself back.
Whenever I took a break from scrambling up, I would turn around, take a seat and marvel at how high we had gone. What lay before us was a seemingly endless sea of evergreens, with majestic mountains breaking through and soaring high above. The sun’s last rays of the day shone brilliantly on Mt. Stephen across from us, as golden hour was in full effect.