Into the Clear Blue Light

A Powder Paradise Emerges From the Deep, Dark Center of Vancouver IslandWords by Cassidy Randall / Photos by Ashley VoykinOn a heartbreakingly perfect early spring afternoon, a small group of skiers pops out of the thick rainforest of Vancouver Island’s Strathcona Provincial Park into clear blue light. Before them is a lake, frozen over. On the lake is an island, craggy and winter-cloaked. And on the island are two small cabins, A-frame and old. This land runs in the blood of all five