Canadian Hangover

I can’t remember a day which has passed by slower than today.  It’s not like I haven’t been busy.. Taxes, email catchup, webmaster duties for 3 sites, catching up on the Valdez snow...

SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW

Hello outside world.  B.C. Backcountry reporting live. Our days here are running together and I will be back in the Explorer headed south again by Monday morning if all goes well. We have the chance ...

Valkyr Lodge

Hanging in the bunk upstairs for a minute and I got my work done a bit ahead of time to give a quick update from Valkyr Lodge. The lodge is a beautiful three story wood lodge.  A gear room downstairs...

Rossland/ Red Mountain

Boots has it figured out. Boots is Sparky and Bridgette’s cat that apparently “came with the house”.  That puts Boots at over 17 years old.  She sleeps under their woodstove at home in Rosslan...

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...

Avalanches Eh?

For some reason even though I am headed to B.C. for a week long avalanche course in the heart of the legendary Selkirk Mountains my mind is still stuck in Valdez. With plans lining up for all my buddi...

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...

Stragglers

Robyn and I arrived home last night at 11PM after 1.5 hours driving, 1 hour flying, 3.5 hours flying, and 6 more hours driving.  We landed in Anchorage and were reminded what 6 F feels like and then ...