Posted: February 14, 2021 “Perceptions,” by Gerry Warner Time is running out. Running out on what, you say? Something you’ve probably never thought about or only thought about very fleetingly when you were camping in the backcountry, hiking up Lakit Lookout or maybe even climbing Mt. Fisher. Or you could just be strolling up to Windy Bluff in the Community Forest or the Eager Hills in spring when the Balsam Root Sunflowers spread out around you like an endless yellow tapestry. You take in a deep breath of that clean Kootenay air and look around and view one of the most impressive vistas in the world. The jagged Rockies to the east, the slightly less jagged Purcell Range to the west and far to the north you might even get a glimpse of the famed Bugaboo Range that Conrad Kain first climbed or maybe even the craggy pyramid of Mt. Assiniboine thrusting up in the north-east, the highest peak in the southern Rockies.