Thursday Jan 9th at 7AM, checking the Griz at the top of the Bear, 28cm’s of snow overnight. Most of […]

Growing up on the Roadrunner cartoons affected a whole generation and a half. It was OK to blow someone up […]

Driving away from my house a couple days ago, I scared a young black bear out of my neighbor’s apple […]

As I drive out of Fernie toward Cranbrook, I am reminded of a Gary Larson cartoon. The road is lined […]

The phone rang mid-morning a couple days ago. It was Sean Staplin. “Hey.” “Hey yourself. Where are you?” “Just about […]

The six weeks since the ski hill closed have been weeks of ease. Very little rain. Warm. Not long after […]

The bombs broke my sleep. Looking out the window, snow, heavy snow, fell in the morning half-light. The metal barn […]

The Monster Enemy Lines became a waiting game with the rain and the disintegration of the snow pack in the […]

It’s the first day of new winter. Victoria Street is ankle deep in snow. A mid-shin berm runs down the […]

In broad strokes, philosophy falls into two schools. The belief that essence precedes existence. Or opposite belief, that existence precedes […]

It was raining. It was opening day at Fernie Alpine Resort. A ski area. And it was raining. I grew […]

It was a dark and stormy night (Tuesday, November 19th). At 10:30PM, in a fit of desperation–It really can’t be […]