Aug 8, 2012 | Notes from the Field
That was Mary’s comment on the road immediately outside of Valemount, heading to Mt. Robson Provincial Park, where we have been camping for the past almost-week. We made the drive from Grande Cache safely down, after a brief stopover in Edson, to return our...
Jul 31, 2012 | Notes from the Field
Since our last post, we’ve had the full spectrum of Willmore weather: thunder, lightening, rain and blinding sunshine, with rainbows in between: Thunder and lightening almost every evening for three days. We heard the weather warning on our radio the day before...
Jul 24, 2012 | Notes from the Field
This is another cast back over the past three weeks as there were too many good things to skip. In this post, we look at a few of the highs and lows. In the first post we covered the helicopter hover exit training, and we covered the giant elk. We covered the rain,...
Jul 21, 2012 | Notes from the Field
This year’s crew sees Jenna Falk, Heike Lettrari, and Mary Sanseverino in the field! Jenna Falk is a Master’s student in Environmental Studies and the crew leader for this year. Growing up in Kitchener, Ontario, she’s traded maple syrup for ocean...
Jul 21, 2012 | Notes from the Field
Because we’ve covered so much ground in the past 3 weeks, we figured an update in a ‘feature-in-three-parts’ would be appropriate, until we’re caught up, and can do more thorough, and current posts! So, here’s the start to catch-up!...
Jul 30, 2011 | Notes from the Field
MLP has a new toy! This year we’re taking a SPOT personal locator along with us. This means we have one more tool to call for help with if things go south, and also means that you can see where we go this year with its “Track Progress” function. To...
