Snow is pretty and dangerous too
I was reading the local paper this Sunday. The North Shore News is actually a pretty good paper which covers community news from North and West Vancouver (the North Shore). The article this Sunday covered tips that could save your life in the backcountry.
We live on edge of wilderness [...]
Rain clouds over Vancouver
Someone (Neal) emailed me recently and asked me to write about the rain. He said this was the elephant in the room. The topic that we don’t talk about, but is on our mind anyway.
By chance Neal’s email was well timed, arriving just before a major winter storm. As I write this [...]
Grouse – not an Olympic venue
Anyone in Vancouver is probably heartily sick of hearing about the Winter Olympics. It has been a hot topic ever since we won the bid to host the 2010 winter games. There have been debates about all sorts of things. Mostly cost of course. The cost of the construction [...]