Recently, I did something I'd been thinking of for a few years now. Packed up one small bag and headed up to BC's Cariboo-Chilcotin for a one-week mountain pack trip. That's 7 days on horseback. Riding into bush that's really only accessible on our 4-legged friends – or partly by boat. Anyhow, I wasn't disappointed. Sights like this, on day 4, taken from high above offer a panorama of beautiful Chilko Lake. So pretty.

Views to the west of Chilko featured more terrain. At the time, you're just snapping away to capture everything and once I reviewed images, I noticed the cropping wasn't quite what I wanted. But, I did have a couple of shots that could work if I pulled them together. On one, I liked the cloud formation and how it focused down to the horses – while another included the mountain peaks I wanted. The third image below shows the result.

The guide had a couple of dogs who came up with us on the ride. I think the dogs are there to signal the presence of bears – or at least scare them off. While bears aren't really interested in people, things can happen in the bush. Anyhow, Quila (I think that’s how it's spelled – like Te-Quila) was around 13 years old or about 92 in human years. Good grief, I could barely swing my leg over the horse in the morning and this mutt, standing about 28" trundled it's way up behind the horses every day. Not only that, little Quila is deaf and blind in one eye. But clearly happiest when she's working. And so there she is.

And then closer down to the lake by the lodge. Again, sometimes you don't always get what you want. In this panorama the cropping wouldn't include enough of the top or bottom in one image, so it was a question of putting one and two together, to make three. Those are fly fishermen, far left on the bottom and small, coming home at days end.