Jim
About the Author: It's just Jim 🐧 On this site, you'll find my posts in various forms: serious, playful, media-based, audios, and more! The underlying theme is identifying my slices of life to paint the present with my past on the site itself.

Circling Tower of Fog | VT2

Have you ever wandered up a circular structure built high up in the mountains?

I’ll tell you what. I wasn’t exactly sure I was high up on the mountains because I was in a pretty dense fog. Hence, the title.

It’s definitely an interesting destination – would I recommend going to such a place that would be better to see a distance? Probably.

Photo of the circling tower with platforms, photo taken from an angle upwards, 7 levels, foggy background
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But listen, I think this is where it gets interesting. A place like this would be better off on a sunny day (if that’s possible during the autumn/winter season of British Columbia) 🍂⛄

You get to see far away, take great pictures etc. Don’t get me wrong, I still would like to do that. However, that’s the problem. It’s normal. That’s probably every photo someone takes up there.

You see, how often do you get to see a fog settle in the urban city? Not as often as sunny or rainy weather in my recollections. I won’t try to find the weather data, just trust my experiences on this one.

Photo taken while on the platform moving up in a spiral. Foggy background on the left with scenery obstructed, metal structure on the right that is a slide for people to slide down from the top.
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Combine a rather uncommon weather type, lack of visiting tourists and cold weather, you have yourself an interesting and unique experience. It’s different from the typical, an adventure pitted against the randomized weather, only to be seen during the times of uncertainty.

Why, I think it’s quite a rare day in fact. I could say I was unlucky to be the only day that had fog all over the mountainside and filling up the entire canyon.

Photo taken where it is foggy and barely can see the mountains with trees on the other side of the valley. Supposedly, it is a big valley that looks great from here, but it was obscured by fog.
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You see, with this rare occurrence, I was able to enjoy visiting this circular structure, have no waiting lines, no crowds to wait and dodge a turn to take a photo. I had mostly the platform to myself.

Photo taken from the top looking down, seeing all the different platforms as you would walk up.
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Yet… of course, one day, I will visit again to get a nice normal photo on a sunny day. Afterall, I am a sucker for scenic views as well. Oh, did I not mention where this is? Well I guess you’ll have to find out in one way or another. Perhaps when I revisit that place again. Now isn’t that a cliffhanger?

Who am I kidding, this whole post is just me looking on the bright side.

Spoilers: The other side still looks foggy.

Look for this post’s series with the VT tag.

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