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This blog entry is a bit of a back-track (as most of my entries seem to be). We did this hike back on July 30, back when we were stationed out of Kananaskis valley. As you may have already read, out first attempt at the summit of Mount Lady MacDonald was not a raging...

Just a quick update for you all while I've got a little internet time. Being the vagabond of a team that we are, we have recently relocated ourselves from the Kananaskis valley, to Kootenay Naitonal Park. This new location is beautiful, however it is close to all of...

Last Wednesday, Chris, Stuart and I moved from our base camp at the Elbow fire base and moved to Boundary cabin. Boundary is this cute little cabin in the Kananaskis valley, right across from the Nakiska ski hill. It's big enough to fit two sets of bunk beds, a...

First things first, please check out the On the road again blog post. I just fixed the problem with the photos, so you should be able to see them all now. Now onto the MLP update: For the past week or so, we've been pretty lucky, and getting helicopters a decent...

After too many office days we finally got back into the field on Sunday! Stuart being the incredible trooper that he is, sacrificed himself to another day of office work, trying to sort and locate the very last of the McArthur images. Sunday consisted of the rest of...

It occurred to me the other day that we’ve never actually explained what it is we do and specifically what the Mountain Legacy Project field season 2009 is all about (besides being really awesome). As you likely already know, the Mountain Legacy Project finds old...

For all my fellow map geeks and Google Earth lovers, check out the following KMZ file: http://googleearth.arterysolutions.com/filestore/Mountain Legacy Project Summer 2009 Stations.kmz Scott's been spending a lot of time putting all of our photo locations into a...

Nautical adventures at Lime Ridge

Today marks yet another office day. The weather has kind of been cramping our style recently. We’ve had 6 days straight of thunderstorms and rain, making field work hard (but not impossible). We work around the storms as best as possible by doing lower elevation...

Hello readers of the MLP Blog! I hope your holding on, because you’re about to experience the uncultured product of my inaugural plunge into the mysterious realm of blogging!  A wise individual (Mandy) once said, “the key to happiness is to keep your standards low”. ...