But its origins start humbly: in a gentle lake in the mountains of British Columbia. Subscribe to Mossback on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube or Podbean. Cascade PBS’s resident historian Knute Berger journeyed to these headwaters for a recent episode of the Mossback’s Northwest video series, but there’s far more left to explore. In this episode of Mossback, Berger joins co-host Stephen Hegg to share what it was like to make the trek to that peaceful lake in Canada where it all begins.