After a final exam marking marathon, I started my holiday break on Wednesday just as a major storm hit the Coast Mountains. I joined Adam for a day of powder skiing on Blackcomb Mountain and did lap after lap of fresh tracks as the sky kept puking. Thursday I dropped Sarah at the airport and[…]
It is pretty common to hear people talk about their quiver of skis but I have to confess I have a quiver of ski poles. It is hard to believe that something as simple as a ski pole can get so specialized as to need more than one pair but here we are. Carbon vs.[…]
The third weekend of November, I flew to Ottawa, ON for the 3rd annual meeting of the Canadian Chapter – Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society. I spent most of the weekend working at the front desk checking people in for the conference. The second day was focused on dive medicine and I gave a presentation[…]
November has been a bit slow for getting out in the mountains. Between car troubles and the unending rain with a cold thrown in to mix things up, I have not gotten out much. Snow is just starting to settle into the mountains for real and things are starting to open up. Early in the[…]