Ranchin’

Hanging Out, originally uploaded by snapshotwill. We have gone North to the Ya Ha Tinda Ranch for a week. We are North of Banff and hope to spend the weekend and early next week flying to some stations. Maybe if we are lucky the cowboys will lend us a horse. There is...

Leisure Day

Gully Man, originally uploaded by snapshotwill. We thought it might be fun to take a day off, and so we climbed part of Crowsnest Mountain for kicks. But, because we are lazy, we slept in, and didn’t start hiking until noon. The afternoon thunder/hail storms...

Nondescript

Distractions, originally uploaded by snapshotwill. Yesterday we were doing some more stations on the AB-BC border, and we were pleased to be outside in the sun. Where exactly? We did what we often do, we took a nondescript road, to an unremarkable valley, bushwhacked...

Digitize!

Stuart and I have been hiding from the rain at the Fire Centre in Calgary. We spend our days scanning images from the North Saskatchewan River. We have 3 scanners running, and we would have more but as you can see our office is minute. Off to Crowsnest tonight,...

Rain

From Environment Canada: “Rainfall warning for Crowsnest Pass – Pincher Creek – Waterton Lakes Nat. Park continued Upwards of 100 millimetres of rain is expected by Friday.” Hopefully Saturday will be nice, and then we won’t have to sit...

MLP Q&A No. 1: Alpaca vs Llama

Today we’re launching the long anticipated MLP Q&A series! Days of wandering in the mountains gives you plenty of time to come up with outrageous “what if’s?” and “I wonder why’s?”.  In these little snippets we’ll do...