Kelowna, Vernon, and Kamloops all have their nuanced pros and cons. Best you and the lady come up and spend some time over the next couple winters and check each out. I suspect if you don't mind a...

... mixed with draft Kokanee. That commode is gonna be SLAYED.

Not sure if you have access to a plotter for full scale paper maps, or can just use a digital copy, but all the 1:20000 topo maps in PDF can be downloaded free at...

Same in the corridor here. A little thinner on the solar aspects, but east and northern were over the hood fantastic this weekend.

Almost the entirety of the mountain ranges west of the Rockies are considered the Columbias in the geographical reference texts. There are no Kootenay Mtn ranges in the Columbias; the Kootenay Range...

I think most of the common uses of "Kootenays" is a holdover from past geopolitical boundaries like the regional districts and electoral boundaries. All have been chopped and re-stitched in several...

Freezing rain sometime between 1 and 6am below 800m here.
Local little t-bar was shaping to be fantastic night skiing for Friday with almost 40cm from the past 2 days. Just over 70cm between the...

So I am tied with the winter of 08/09 snow banks in my yard at 440m elev. Can't see the vehicles in the yard from the street anymore - throwing snow above my head now. Expecting in excess of 30cm in...

Add the northern Monashees and southern Cariboos to the extent of that layer too.

So true. Although the vast majority of public use resource roads are only radio assisted, many would likely benefit from being radio controlled.

That said, no one should be hauling ass on those...

Typically yes, a non-issue, as mill scales are closed, but the mills in the Kamloops and central interior areas are very hungry in the wake of the fire season, so preloads and other alternate...

Heh, I put all my overtime payouts and expense reimbursements in a separate account for the same reason. But that still doesn't hide the physical evidence when the courier drops them off.
Begging...

When you find the holy grail, let me know. Best I have to come up with is trading my gear whoring for summer work on her cabin property. That and broaching the subject after keeping the young-un...