There are places in rural, mountainous BC where people live, by choice and by necessity, "off the grid". No power poles nearby to supply what most of us take for granted. No phone lines. Communication by satellite phone or radiophone, transportation by boat or rough logging road. This choice of lifestyle comes with many challenges, as you can imagine, and with the advantage to live where you want, lives of semi-isolation, peace, quiet.
We visited some people in one such area during a recent visit to Fry Creek Canyon. The work they've done to develop homes in these areas away from commercial sources of power and away from ready access to supplies is quite amazing.
It was a splendid day with isolated showers and misty, moody views out over Kootenay Lake. It could almost be the Pacific Coast, a feeling I've had many times around this lake and others in these deep mountain valleys of the Kootenays. Snows are melting more rapidly in the hills above us and "creeks" are now raging torrents. The level of the Lake has come up dramatically in the past week as numerous rivers and creeks pour out their contents. Summer is on its way.
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