I think the issue,
Lal, might be that us North Americans don't have the likes of The Quiet Woman pub to start us off on our hikes.
Those are great pictures,
Helen, much more suitable than Mount Baker, which I first hiked as a young lass of eight, when my four year old brother climbed three feet up a tree and then couldn't get down.
By the by, Canada apparently has more lakes than the entire rest of the world combined, so I must find me some lake pictures that don't look like muskeg or moose meadow. Surely there are some.