Aug 11, 2014 | Posts from the past
After a beautiful week in Willmore and our last picturesque flight there over glaciers (with Mt. Robson looming in the background) we were ready to move once again. This time we headed to our third location of this summer–Shunda Fire Base in Clearwater area,...
Jul 30, 2014 | Posts from the past
What a great week! Tomorrow we are leaving the Entrance fire camp, where we arrived one week ago to begin working on repeating our Miller 1928 survey in the amazing Willmore Wilderness Park. The week got off to a fun start with a road trip fro the Elbow Camp to...
Jul 22, 2014 | Posts from the past
Although we have been busy bees since our arrival in the picturesque Kananaskis Country, forest fires from nearly all directions (BC to the West, Grand Cache and the NWT to the North and Oregon and Montana to the South) produced a thick haze in the air, temporarily...
Jul 16, 2014 | Posts from the past
Sitting in a sparkling blue Bell-407, earmuffs over our heads, microphones at our mouths, hands wrapped tightly around our printed photographs, maps and GPS, peering down at the mountain peeks below – it is hard to believe this constitutes our daily work! Even though...
Jul 9, 2014 | Posts from the past
Here we are a week into the 2014 field season, and we’ve already had some great times! The season began with a two-day road trip from Victoria, with 5 people and an impressive amount of gear jam packed into the truck. As inevitably happens when people are...
