Just about ready to blast out to the hill for the last couple days of the 2012 season! The slush cup awaits, as does my first BCIT examination on Monday…soils…booo. Going to try out Pilsner Urquell this weekend. Apparently it is the original pilsner beer and thankfully isn’t spelt the same way as Steve Urkel. […]
Moose family on Gantahaz Road. Morfee Mountain Summit looking East toward the Pine Pass and Powder King. One positive of the recent recession was the make-work-project initiated to clear trash off the mountain and old vehicles from the bottom of the bowl. People still feel the need to litter as evident by the numerous empty […]
Raven is not really my dog, but we are getting to know each other quite well and she can hold her own on the mountains. Snow patch. One of the useful aspects of summer snow is that it creates a rather convenient bridge over alpine scrub allowing access to regions that might otherwise be painfully […]
Map and raster geek alert. The Province of BC has posted a bunch of their geo data online @ http://geobc.bc.ca Distributed in kind of a webGIS format, the webpage presently incorporates parcel data, forest covers, health services into Microsoft Bing Maps. Fairly basic data set at the moment, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it […]
The season is getting closer… Season of never-ending snowmobile engine difficulties… Can’t hide. Exactly…one month!