How I Fell In Love With Winter

Learning to embrace the season and all it has to offer was a real eye-opener for this warm-weather fan!

- Sarah Bruce

Considering I am Canadian, I sure do hate winter. Especially here on the “wet” coast where we don’t even get those magical snow days when the world glistens white. It’s just cold. And it rains a lot. You see, I prefer summer— hiking the North Shore Mountains, surfing the Tofino waves and basking in the elusive sun that only shines for a couple of months each year in Vancouver. I love the outdoors, but I normally spend winters hibernating and wishing it was June. And yet, on a Friday night in early January last year, when my friend Christina asked if I wanted to go on an adventure the following day, I somehow said yes.

I allowed myself to be dragged outside on a cold, damp Saturday morning before the sun was up. We drove towards the mountains. As one hour turned to two and the rain turned to snow, even I had to admit the snowscape was beautiful.