I love where I live.  I love the feel of this town, I love the pace of life, and I love all the country that there is to explore.  Between shooting, editing, and everything else we have on the go Kevan and I have been deliberate about getting out of the office for a few hours each day and exploring Fernie a little more! Last week while we were scouting for a few different locations for Ashly & Ryan’s wedding we ended up driving up the Coal Creek Road out of town. As you drive up the road (we went about 35km up it) it deteriorates a little bit and most of the vehicles you see along it are trucks and SUVs. Well as it turns out the Mazda Protege 5 is an SUV in disguise and it handled everything that road could throw at it in style. We went over rocks, slid around on some mud, even did a creek crossing! Here’s the proof!  Sorry for the quality!  The camera in the iPhone is handy but it produces less than sharp images!

We’ve also been trying to find time every day to go out biking.  For those of you who don’t know, Kevan is training for the Trans-Rockies Mountain Bike Race this August.  This means that, by default, even though I’m not riding it I am training for it as well.  I’m amazed at all the amazing single-track biking here in Fernie and we’re continuing to find new trails to ride and sometimes fall off of!  It isn’t a proper ride unless one of us goes over the handlebars!  Today we rode up to the summit of Castle Mountain just outside of town.  The ride up was a bit of a slog but was well worth it for the view and then the ride back down!  Here’s a few shots from the iPhone from the top of the mountain.

Kevan snapped this shot of me sitting on the edge of the face on the south-western side of the mountain.  There was a great view of the ski hill but it was a little windy up there for my liking!

…and, because I love black & white shots, here’s another one of Fernie.

Well, this is it.  We’re in the calm before the storm.  Starting this weekend we have 9 weddings in 32 days!  That works out to one wedding every 3.5 days!  It’s going to be busy but it will also be a lot of fun.  Check back often to take a look at what we’re doing!