Join us for KHC’s seventh book club read!

Snowshoe at Harper Mountain trails from 4:30 to 6:30 pm, the cost is 6$ to use the trails.

We will meet at the Harper Mountain lodge after our snowshoe for eats and hot drinks by the fire for our book talk.

Dress for the weather: layer up, snowshoes, ski poles, something warm to drink, headlamp.

Location: Harper Mountain Ski Resort

Crossing Home Ground: A Grassland Odyssey through Southern Interior British Columbia

Like John Muir, David Pitt-Brooke stepped out for a walk one morning–a long walk of a thousand kilometres or more through the arid valleys of southern interior British Columbia. He went in search of beauty and lost grace in a landscape that has seen decades of development and upheaval. In Crossing Home Ground he reports back, providing a day-by-day account of his journey’s experiences, from the practical challenges–dealing with blisters, rain and dehydration–to sublime moments of discovery and reconnection with the natural world.

Through the course of this journey, Pitt-Brooke’s encounters with the natural world generate starting points for reflections on larger issues: the delicate interconnections of a healthy landscape and, most especially, the increasingly fragile bond between human beings and their home-places. There is no escaping the impact of human beings on the natural world, not even in the most remote countryside, but he finds hope and consolation in surviving pockets of loveliness, the kindness of strangers and the transformative process of the walking itself, a personal pilgrimage across home ground.

Crossing Home Ground is a book that, though rooted in one specific place and time, will evoke a universal sense of recognition in a wide variety of readers. It will appeal to hikers, natural-history enthusiasts and anyone who loves the wild countryside and is concerned about the disappearance of Canada’s natural spaces. Pitt-Brooke’s grassland odyssey is sure to become a classic of British Columbia nature writing.

The above text and photo is sourced from: https://www.amazon.ca/Crossing-Home-Ground-Grassland-Southern/dp/1550177745