Away with Wisdom

A weekend away from Valdez also meant away with some wisdom. This last week, E and I made the six hour trek to Anchorage, ran some errands, did the usual stock pile of cheaper groceries, went boulderi...

PUNXY PHIL

4 Years ago we were there to see Punxy himself.  It was quite a spectacle, and dammit if we didn’t stand around in 10 F weather from 8 PM till 6 AM for a front row spot all the while listening ...

The weekend, briefly.

I had an extremely looooong weekend. Due to unsafe amounts of snow on our roof at work, and other places in town, we were asked to leave the building and not return to work until Tuesday morning. Toda...

Under the Weather

So I kept telling myself that I wanted to get into town on a clear day and get some good snow shots to post. . . then I looked at the weather forecast. Now this is actually the NEXT five days, but the...

Morning Glow

This morning Pete and I went to Copper Valley Electric Company to assess an avalanche slope behind one of their hydroelectric power plants.  We will create an avalanche hazard plan and standard opera...

Sharps

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Diabetes

After a routine checkup to investigate my recent weight loss and incessant thirst I was diagnosed with Type I Diabetes.  This came as a complete shock to me mainly because I had limited knowledge of ...

Revisiting a classic

The climbing walls within the barn were built over the course of a couple years for a place to train since State College remarkably lacked one, however, the barn is much more than this. It is a place ...

splitted

If you think Robyn’s custom Venture Zephyr 146 cm split isn’t the coolest board on the mountain?  Well you are just wrong. Next up is drilling the holes for the touring brackets and vario...

They are all so small from up here

Hi folks, If you haven’t noticed we have a new blog platform that we are both pretty stoked about! Much easier to navigate through posts and find what we want. Everything is categorized now R...