If its acrobatic acts along cliffs and rocky ridgelines didn't engross us enough, the snow-coloured mountain goat may puzzle onlookers all the more with the revelation that it isn't, in fact, a goat.

Despite having "goat" in their name, these white woolly phantoms of the alpine more accurately belong to the mountain antelope family. Perhaps that's what makes their spectacle in our Columbia Mountains so otherworldly?

The Hermit Meadows campground, just an hour or two up a steep trail from Rogers Pass in Glacier National Park, is a daytime and overnight destination situated right at the foot of mountain goat country.

One Monday, Sept. 1, a herd of seven adults and two kids grazed through the tall green meadows and clambered up and down the steep river valley just a few hundred metres from

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