Fort Nelson, B.C.
Exploring the alpine tundra
Hike the Eastern Muskwa Range in Stone Mountain Provincial Park
Charting a route: Hikers interested in seeing the alpine tundra stop at a park kiosk. —photo by J. F. Bergeron, Enviro Foto
A big part of the North’s appeal for hikers is the unique tundra. Stone Mountain Provincial Park features alpine tundra, a landscape characterized by mountains and boggy moss areas that accumulate on glacial till. You won’t see large trees when you hike in the alpine tundra, but rather scrub birch and Lapland rosebay—a shrub of the rhododendron family. In pockets of soil accumulation, grasses and alpine wildflowers eke out a ruggedly beautiful existence.
It is here that you will find mats of white dryad, a flower also known as mountain aven. This plant, which is the plant emblem of the Northwest Territories, resembles a grouping of 10-centimetre-tall windsocks when in seed. It has evolved into a very tough plant, able to withstand severe weather and raw mineral soil types.
The Inuit traditionally used the dryad as a way to keep time. When the windsock-shaped seed heads unfurled into fluffy pompoms, that signalled the time to move inland to hunt caribou—the animals’ hides would by then have achieved the right thickness to make parkas.
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Cranbrook, BC
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Located three minutes from the Canadian Rockies International Airport in Cranbrook, B.C., Shadow Mountain is the region's newest golf community. When completed, Shadow Mountain will be home to a 19-hole championship golf course, practice academy, clubhouse, and approximately 550 residential lots and acreage properties. Owners will enjoy amazing views of the golf course, river and surrounding mountains.
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