Kokanee Journal

If you spent time in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park this past summer, or if you’re a local in the New Denver, BC area, you may know Petra Hekkenberg. Drawn by Canada’s nature and wide-open spaces, Petra relocated from the Netherlands to BC’s Slocan Valley and is now one of the club’s rotating custodians at the Kokanee Glacier Cabin. She’s also an artist, photographer, writer and keen observer of nature in all its forms.

Petra recorded her first summer at KGC with a daily journal of thoughts and sketches that brilliantly capture mountain life in the Kootenays, the sublime beauty of the park, and the slow roll of season change from spring to high summer to autumn.

We’ll be creating a bit of Kokanee summer on these pages through Petra’s drawings, journal words, images and even some videos. For those of us that want to keep one foot in the brilliant, sunny stream of summer even as we embrace our alpine winter.

Check back through the winter. We’ll also link to new posts from the ACC Dispatch newsletter.