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A Mount Cain Post!
It was hard to believe, but before last weekend I hadn’t been to Mount Cain for OVER A MONTH!
Now that’s how to advertise!
Last weekend was the 2013 Cain Cup, and there was an inversion so sunny skies and warm temperatures. I was on the fence about ra…
Something New…
Hello everyone. In a bit of a departure from my usual posts, I offer you some original fiction. while no one else may find this amusing, or even remotely entertaining I rather enjoyed writing it. More episodes will follow!
Tales from Dearth
All p…
Generation Clash
Recently, I found myself in an argument. My opponent was older than me (by about 30 years), a business owner, and also a white male. It was an odd event, which I will not go into to much detail about, but the main presenter spent most of his talking ti…
2013
It would appear that the world did not end.
There goes my max the credit card for fun plan!
(Just kidding – I didn’t do that. Although it is an amusing thing to consider…)
I have now had this web/blog site thing, citizenclass, for almost three years….
blood on my pants!
Not mine, fortunately.This last weekend was opening weekend at Mount Cain. In what I thought was a clever plan, I volunteered to be Director on Duty for the entire weekend. This decision was based on the fact that last year on opening weekend, there wa…
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 i…
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…
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!)
– Robbie Burns
Last w…
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 ge…
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’…
The “Why”
Welcome to the home of Braxton Consulting (a.k.a. Andrew Gower).
Before we get on with blog posts, philosophical ramblings, and reviews/reports on equipment I am looking at, let’s talk about me and why the hell I am doing this site anyways.
I get things stuck in my head that need to come out. I also do some gear reviews and testing on the side. This page provides me the platform to say what I am thinking, and pass on things I learn about life. Originally focussed on gear reviews and advenetures, the path I have been following has diverged somewhat, so now you will hear about many topics – all shared with passion.
Clients
