'I like getting out into the local landscape hiking and scrambling, and these excursions provide some ideas and inspriation, oxygen, for landscape painting.' For more information on the mountains of Vancouver Island or guided trips into them, click on these links to Island Alpine Guides, The Vancouver Island Section of the Alpine Club of Canada, and the Comox District Mountaineering Club. A history of the discovery of island peaks can be read about in author and mountaineer Lindsay Elms' book Beyond Nootka; Elms also maintains an informative website called Beyond Nootka.