Bryan Crosby Dot Ca

Some stuff from last week. Technorati Tags: azu, photography, powder, powder king, rocky mountains, skiing

Just when you thought I couldn’t become any more of a map geek, I go pull something like this.  Openpistemap.org is another open source, wiki style mapping project out to usher the world of skiing into convenient online map format.  It operates using OSM data, but adds a few more rendering options in the side [...]

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 [...]

Wandering around the downtown yesterday landed myself inside a rather busy Indigo bookstore.  Whenever I’m in an Indigo/Chapters I have a routine route I take.  I’ll wander the new releases (trade/paper/hard), move through the ‘theme’ tables, then meander upstairs the the ultra ‘no-one-would-pay-normal-price’ discounted publications.  This is followed by a stop at the travel section.  [...]

The season is getting closer… Season of never-ending snowmobile engine difficulties… Can’t hide.   Exactly…one month! Technorati Tags: azu, british columbia, cabin, christmas, family, new years, powder king, skiing, snowmobile

Some items of note from the past week of snowbounded holidays Crazy weather and cancelled flight nonesense Making it home via public housing on wheels (aka Greyhound Bus) Having first Christmas at home in 4 years Spending a lot of time at the ski cabin which now appears to have aquired satellite internet (at dial-up [...]