Monthly Archives: March 2011

Captain Orange just posted a 10k run on his motionX page so I thought I’d better post my last weekend 10k so he knows I’m keeping up!  It was  a road-style route with just one hill at the end just … Continue reading →

I was really trying hard not to pay any attention to the election.  But today I unintentionally heard Jack Layton’s first campaign promise. He wants to reduce credit card interest rates by nearly half. To review the last couple years, … Continue reading →

  Here’s the problem from my point of view. I don’t know these people who are running for these offices. I don’t even know their platforms or the issues. Heck, I don’t even know what jobs they are supposed to … Continue reading →

Across the valley, the Smith-Dorrien road can be seen climbing steadily up  from the Bow River up to the Spray Lakes.  I’ve decided I’d like to run up this thing and so I’m adding some more uphill to my running … Continue reading →

Starting this April, I will be doing some environmental assessment work for Banff National Park.  The project involves creating a database of vegetation emerging from the prescribed burns.  I’ve done similar types of surveys for both the Saskatchewan and Alberta … Continue reading →

What a QNY gift from Google Earth today.  The mountains north of our house are finally in HI-RES and shown without cloud cover!  Some time ago I wrote a futile letter asking for hi-res pictures of our area but I … Continue reading →

The theme of this winter for me has been to improve my “mountain-craft.”  Having just completed the two month long ACC backcountry course, I set myself to the final pillar of mountain skiing: Telemark. The father of modern skiing pictured … Continue reading →

During the H1N1 scare some time ago, I wrote in this post that I chose not to be vaccinated because the vaccine had no proof of its efficacy.  As an interesting post script to that saga, a report investigating the … Continue reading →