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Tune-ups and updates

August 26, 2010

Monday, I tweeted, a little prematurely, “I’m b-a-a-a-a-ck.” Thing is, I’m not entirely here. As it turned out, I required more than a new crank bolt and had to stay in the “shop” much longer than anticipated. Now I need my hydraulic fluid flushed twice a day for the next six weeks. Consequently, things might […]

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A tune-up for VeloBlogger

August 12, 2010

Dear Readers: Your faithful VeloBlogger is going in for some repairs and will be indisposed for a short time. I’ve scheduled a couple of things that will shorten the blogus interuptus, until I’m back in the saddle. Check out the new picture on the blog About page (click to enlarge) and don’t forget there’s also a […]

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Another Rocky Mountain Poem

August 9, 2010

Magic Stone: More Notes on the Sacred Fire Winds speak And I carry you grey source of antiquity bent from time Molten glass spiders through my skull stretching over the wild precipice like your breath Fractured plains lay silent for a moment until thunder returns so that I am emissary —gravity’s child— to bring you […]

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Bugaboo ski bums

August 5, 2010

“A still grander view lay before us: a broad, more or less circular glacier stretched out and rounded up to rest on the sides of several beautiful spires along its south edge, one of them with its outline capped by an image of a pouter pidgeon; at its west side it ran up high on […]

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British Columbia Day greetings

August 2, 2010

“We feel that British Columbia, like every other province could benefit and should have a holiday around August 1. We feel that the holiday should be dedicated to the pioneers who built the colony of British Columbia into the great province it is today…” ~Hon. Ernie Hall: 4th Session, 30th Parliament, May 1, 1974 (Bill 61 […]

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Back on top: The Rocky Mountain perissodactyl climbs, 1978

July 29, 2010

Mount Athabaska: Silverhorn Arête   “The view that lay before us in the evening light was one that does not often fall to the lot of modern mountaineers. A new world was spread at our feet; to the westward stretched a vast ice-field probably never before seen by human eye, and surrounded by entirely unknown, […]

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