Above the Stawamus Chief
Watercolour and crayon
©2016 Charlene Brown
The Chief, in the left foreground, towers
700 m. above the end of the Howe Sound fjord. It is (allegedly) the
second largest granite monolith in the world.
From
this point, on a hiking trail around the plateau at the top of Sea to Sky
Gondola, we could see Mount Garibaldi, the town of Squamish, the port, the university campus and
even Black Tusk, the core of an extinct volcano near the Whistler ski area. I included
as much of this as possible, plus the mix of burnt and surviving timber and new growth covering
that part of the mountainside – a theme I’ve used before.
