How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Brian Paterson
LMPR is throwing it back to that perennial school day assignment of, “How I Spent My Summer Vacation.” In the second post of a three part series Head of Digital + Marketing, Brian Paterson, fondly recounts his stunning and remote hiking trip on Vancouver Island.
At the beginning of August, I set with three old friends for an alpine hiking & climbing trip through Vancouver Island’s Strathcona Provincial Park.
![1-Mountain-vista](http://www.lauramurraypr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1-Mountain-vista-425x269.jpg)
The plan was to unplug with a little adventure in the mountains.
![2-Tarn-Campsite](http://www.lauramurraypr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/2-Tarn-Campsite-425x284.jpg)
Everything required for a week off the grid was packed along on our backs.
![3-Dehydrated-Meal](http://www.lauramurraypr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/3-Dehydrated-Meal-425x319.jpg)
Including dehydrated meals, such as my signature dish: mashed potatoes, kale & bacon.
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Sometimes the sun was shining…
![5-Tarn-Sunset](http://www.lauramurraypr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/5-Tarn-Sunset-425x319.jpg)
… sometimes sunset put on a show…
![6-Hiking-in-rain-gear](http://www.lauramurraypr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/6-Hiking-in-rain-gear-425x319.jpg)
… other times the weather refused to cooperate.
![7-Exposed-cliff-trail](http://www.lauramurraypr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/7-Exposed-cliff-trail-425x310.jpg)
Sometimes the trail got a little exposed…
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… other times the ‘trail’ was really more of a cliff.
![9-Crater-Tarn](http://www.lauramurraypr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/9-Crater-Tarn-425x323.jpg)
Still, when the path leads to places like these…
![10-Cloud-inversion-campsite](http://www.lauramurraypr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/10-Cloud-inversion-campsite-425x294.jpg)
… it’s worth every metre climbed, kilometre hiked, and blister gained.
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