Description: In mid August, 2008, Eva and two friends backpacked for a week into Alberta’s White Goat Wilderness east of Banff National Park.  The WGW is a remote, unmanaged, area of the Rockies, readily accessible only from Banff NP and where few humans appear to go.  The scenery is spectacular, wildlife remarkably unfazed by humans, and the vast expanses of mountain flower meadows stunningly beautiful.  As in all such places, one walks there in wonder and with great care.

Bio: Eva has been an avid backcountry explorer, on foot and by canoe, since her teenage years. Backpacking in wild areas became her passion from her first trip in Algonquin Park, ON, to her last two, the Berg Lake Trail, 2018 and Mt. Fitzwilliam, 2025, both in Mt. Robson Provincial Park. She is a graduate of the National Outdoor Leadership School in Wyoming and did some commercial guiding, but most trips were just with a few fellow enthusiasts.