Thread — Plamenu

Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦@Chigaze@cosocial.ca

My father, a man who has climbed mountains, sea kayaked in Alaska (12 times), and been all over counting birds, is now mostly house bound. I'm so grateful we found a mobility scooter and that Edmonton has wilderness areas within the city. Today we went out to the Whitemud Ravine.

This looks like pure wilderness with a rushing creek (far higher than it normally is) surrounded by mostly evergreens and brush. No sign of the city that surrounds it.

Up ahead is my father on his scooter beside the last of his three favourite trees. It's a towering aspen with a trunk a couple feet across. Once it had two neighbours of similar size but they have since fallen.

Jul 5, 2026, 22:18 UTCen