It was a “if you don’t like the weather, wait 5 minutes” kinda day. It started overcast and snowing with ~6 cm overnight. The viz up top was pretty dismal, though the snow was pretty wonderful (or at least what you could see of it. Not much had changed by noon… We headed out on […]

MY cold finally abated, THE cold finally abated, and it was time to get back to the hill. It was pretty and sunny this morning, far nice than the forecasts called for. Those said it was going to be socked in and snowing all day. That took until the afternoon to happen. I spent the […]

The hill was reporting 25 cm and I found that and more everywhere I looked today. It was indeed everywhere, and it was even deeper in the lee of anything, because that asterisk in the title is there because it was windy as all get out today. In fact, the weather was really “interesting” today: […]

…you could see it. There were certainly challenging spots where you couldn’t see it at all. I didn’t even try to take a picture of Bye Bye Bowl from the Angel Bench, because it simply wasn’t there. The combination of overcast and heavy snowfall meant you HAD to stay in trees everywhere. The Goat was […]

I had the privilege today of taking some of the volunteers and interns, who work with me at Alberta Parks Ecology, up for a day of bopping around. One was born and raised in the French alps and now lives in Paris; another was from northern Germany, and the third was from a tiny town […]

The morning was kind of overcast with flat light and the odd bit of sun… But by 10:30, the clouds were mostly gone and the sun was out. And for most of the afternoon, it was mostly bluebird. I mentioned “warm.” It was only -4° in the village to start the day, and it made […]