Later this week we will welcome a new on-line columnist to the list of bloggers on producer.com. Pam Asheton calls her offering Walking The Land. That’s essentially what she does from her old Cochrane, Alta., area farmhouse. She explores the backcountry, the beauty of the foothills and various aspects of western culture.
Asheton says she was born an Easterner but later fell in love with the West. She is a trained equestian and former competitive rider with the British Horse Society. After working in Europe in her younger years, in the restaurant trade and in event management, she returned to Canada in 1999.
That’s when she signed on with a heli-skiing and hiking company and learned about the wilds, “estimating with horror the mosquito population pretty much averaged several thousand per square inch up in Cariboo country,” she wrote in an e-mail.
Asheton in 2007 published a guidebook called Alberta Backcountry Equestrian One-Day Trail Guide. Her writing has also been published in a number of magazines and newspapers in Europe and Canada.
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Her column with The Western Producer is an experiment and its continuation will depend on the response we get from website users. Please let us know what you think of Asheton’s column and about anything else you find on producer.com.
