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The Girls on Gondolas and Glaciers
By now you've probably read about the challenges we face when water RISES over time....dam building sure makes accurate location locating elusive...but water can confound us in just the reverse...when glaciers melt and historic sites vanish into air rather than under...
No Pity Ever.
So... We had to spend a lot of time doing and redoing computer work, and it was raining and snowing and cold and windy. But then things got a little bit magical for a while. We had some sun, and so we decided to make ourselves happier by doing a station on the shores...
Photographing the 4th Dimension
Photographing the 4th Dimension Hello out there blog-readers...I'm amazed that it has taken me three weeks since joining the ranks of the MLP Crew to find a spare moment to sit down to write a blog post! There has been SO MUCH to learn: camera protocol (complex),data...
Meadow
The nicest wildflower meadow we've seen so far is beside the highway near a garbage dump. We've finally been able to go outside, and our first field day last week was a boat trip. Stuart and I have been away for a few days, and the girls have been wandering around on...
Top of Cliff to Kitchen Floor
For most people, Banff is a chance to experience the Rockies, enjoy the great outdoors, and commune with nature. For us, it's a hustling bustling big city. After a great visit from Eric Higgs and Rob Watt, we had to get back to our computer work before we can get out...
Cliffing
Our station is on the edge of a scree cliff above a 1500ft drop. Oh joy. It's our last day at the ranch today, and we're off to go live in Banff for a month. Happy Canada day. Where is my helicopter? I want to lie down.
We are at summer camp.
When Ryan and Allie arrived at the Ranch, there was lots of computer work to be done, and they had training to do, so I decided it would be a good time to take a few days off. So as a nice vacation, I went hiking, climbed some mountains, and chased some sheep. When...
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...
It’s All About the View
We see lots of interesting evidence of the original surveyors at our stations. Concrete monuments, survey markers, and cairns. My favourite though are the axed down trees. At many of the stations there is a lovely circle of axed down trees just below camera height...
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 beat us...