Letters to the Editor

I write these quite often, so to make my life easier, I am going to cross post them to my blog.  Here’s the latest:Dear Editor, While many do not realize it, here in the Comox Valley we are in a constant economic struggle. It is worldwide and it is a...

Forbidden hiking

This will be primarily an image centred post.  I want for an afterwork hike up the old Wood Mountain ski hill on Forbidden Plateau last night.  It was gorgeous! Here’s the top of the old chair lift. This is the pond at the bottom of the old upper...

The best laid schemes…

… o’ Mice an’ Men, Gang aft agley, An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, For promis’d joy! Translation: (The best laid schemes of Mice and Men oft go awry, And leave us nothing but grief and pain, For promised joy!)...

I built this!

This weekend I got to be far more involved in an engineering project than I usually do.  I was up at Mt. Cain helping to build a new waste-water disposal system!  Yes, if you visit Mt. Cain this winter and flush a toilet, the water will be getting properly...

The best back pack you will never get to buy…

This spring I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to test a variety of winter back-packs for a friend who works for an outdoorsy magazine.  He had been sent a rather alarming amount of bags to review for publication this fall, and couldn’t possibly...