Chris Carter, who passed away in July of this year, was one of SWI’s valued supporters over the years. He moved to the Comox Valley in 1974. By the end of the 1970s he had fallen under the spell of Strathcona Provincial Park and became a very active member in the Comox and District Mountaineering Club hiking and snowshoeing throughout Forbidden Plateau and volunteering his time for decades on their projects within the Park. He joined the Friends of Strathcona Park in the late 1980s to protest the BC government’s lifting of a logging and mining moratorium in the Park and in particular the plans for a Silver Mine at Cream Lake south of Buttle. Volunteering for SWI, with its educational mission, was a natural extension of his love of the Park and concern for its preservation. He is possibly best known to the general public for the many splendid photographs of the Park’s exceptional scenery in all seasons, through which it is clear Strathcona Park was never far from his thoughts for over half a century. He inspired many others with his passion and it was shown by the outpouring of donations to SWI in his memory, and in the pleasure expressed by all those who attended the Chris Carter Memorial Hike and Tea on September 30th, 2023.