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Kari Medig

HIKES FOR ALL There are over 1,000 miles of hiking trails in the Canadian Rockies, many of which are well signposted and easy to navigate. Trails range from easy short walks and day hikes to challenging multi-day hikes and climbs to peaks of up to almost 13,000ft. The Iceline Trail in Yoho National Park, which receives fewer visitors than neighbouring Banff, has impossibly blue lakes, 655ft waterfalls and ancient glaciers. Great Canadian Trails runs a fully catered four-day Iceline Trail tour. Location: Kootenay National Park

2. IN A HOT SPRING Kootenay National Park is a 543 sq mi wilderness of soaring summits and plunging canyons; of velvety alpine meadows fanning out in fold after fold. There are many hot spring resorts to choose from — hiking legs can be soothed in thermal waters, with the warm, mineral-rich rock pools at Radium Hot Springs easing aches and pains as you sit back, relax and soak up the pine forests and snow-capped cones of the peaks. Location: Kootenay Rockies

Hikers at Gillim Lakes in Valhalla Provincial Park, a natural playground encompassing 49,893 hectares of raw wilderness.

4. IN THE MOUNTAINS Watching the sunrise over a glacial lake. Walking below eagles on snow-capped peaks. Galloping ancient, forested trails on horseback. There are few places that compare to British Columbia when it comes to high-altitude adventure. Summer in the Canadian Rockies, a chain of 2,283 mountains that spread across the pine forests and turquoise lakes of BC's Kootenay Rockies and into Alberta like natural skyscrapers, offers more than 1,860 miles of hiking, biking and horseback trails. Feel the magnetism of the wild and let your feet guide you to new summits and viewpoints, as you listen to birdsong bursting from nearby cedars or the calls of kestrels overhead, the stresses and strains of modern life will never have felt so far away. Location: Kootenay National Park

Mountains throng the map in British Columbia, spearing skywards in an endless spread that invites hikers to spend time in nature and reset.

Nature has a lasting effect on us and experts say that the bigger the nature, the better. Take a moment and connect with British Columbia's great wilderness, even before you travel. Call the Wild at HelloBC.com

Through speaking, writing, and filmmaking, Severn Cullis-Suzuki promotes a return to values that will sustain the Earth. Her 1992 speech to the UN climate conference in Rio de Janeiro, delivered when Cullis-Suzuki was 12, stills draws viewers on YouTube. In 2017 she celebrated its 25th anniversary by encouraging young people to give her speech, or parts of it, and to upload the video to her “I’m Only a Child, but ...” YouTube page.

A group walks through the vineyards at Painted Rock Estate Winery.

A couple enjoys the sunset on one of the trestle bridges overlooking Myra Canyon on the Kettle Valley Rail Trail.

Cycling past vineyards on the Kettle Valley Railway between Penticton and Naramata.