Fuck I never know what to say in these things, but I was away for a bit and took some pictures so I’m going to post some and make some stupid comments.

stone oven cold

oven interior

stone oven fire

bread

puff balls

Italian Stone Oven

Italian Stone Oven Interior

polenta

polenta with dandilion salad

bike packing

graffiti on the rail trail

Gladstone Mountain

Gladstone Mountain Moss

View Frome Gladstone- Christina Lake

Rail Trail Trestle

lupines

Fucking Tent

Ok I”m going to go out on a limb and say that we are going to have to come to terms with the fact that things are going to continue to change and we will have to adapt our habits.

I have seen experts give poor reasons why we should not ALL WEAR MASKS for certain activities. If you think that a mask will protect you, you will be sorry. It’s when you come to understand that wearing a mask is to protect others is when you start to understand how this can work to everyone’s benefit.

Thinking of telling people to NOT cover their mouths when they sneeze or cough is crazy. I look at a mask as a temporary elbow that covers my face. I keep my shit to myself and you keep yours to yourself, stay 6 feet apart and this will work.

It is simply a matter of learning new behaviour and I believe we are all capable of this. So. some of the reasons I have seen to not wear a mask:

1) It hasn’t been proven scientifically.

It seems pretty obvious that this shouldn’t need scientific verification, but if someone wants to do a study where everyone wears a mask and stays 6 feet away from everyone else and shows that this is a waste of time then I will rethink my position.

2) A sense of protection may make people drop their guard and not maintain distance.

Again, it’s about learning new behaviour, and maybe we have to learn how to use a mask properly and maybe we need new methods for disposal of masks, but really the idea is that I keep my shit to myself and you do the same. We should not be soiling each others mask, but what becomes of your mask is your responsibility. If it is infected then so are you but at least it’s contained in your mask. And we don’t need to do this all the time only when we are going to be around others, like when shopping or on transit.

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We still need to wash our hands as the other reasons for not wearing as mask is that it will hold the virus, and you touch the mask and spread it that way. But how is that any different from touching your mouth and spreading it? We still need to wash our hands.

3) Heath care workers need them.

Yes, mask that meet a minimal specification must be kept for health care workers, but others masks can be made that could act as a physical barrier if a person is sick and asymptomatic. Yes, we would still expert sick people to stay home.

And remember this is early and that eventually masks will be available to everyone at all times and this is why we need to start adopting new ways of doing things so that we can jump on behaviour changes quickly when this happens again.

And, another thing. Things are going to have to change if we are going to be a global community then we are going to have to be ready to give up some rights IF we want to travel internationally. As a citizen of Canada I should be allowed to travel anywhere in Canada I want with no restrictions, and you should be able to move around your country with the same freedom.

But if I want to fly to Europe or you want to come to Canada then we are going to have to be prepared to demonstrate that we are not sick (test negative) when we leave and be willing to be traced during our travels and again demonstrate that we stayed non infected on our way back in and then we must be willing to be tracked again for 14 days. If you somehow made it to my local airport and we could not verify your health then you will stay there until we can be sure. Airports and hospitals should be combined if we want to continue our jet-set ways. This should be the cost of travel now.

I’ve long tried to capture the kind of design I promote in words and through my work I have used terms like “needs-based”, “user-focused”, “human-centred”. I was using these terms to describe a program that was intended to grow a sector of the regional economy. I have never heard so much jargon and so many buzz words than when I was involved with public funds and private enterprise (I cringe when I hear the word synergy).

Anyway I think of myself as many things, but I find that I like the way Kurt Vonnegut spells it out:

“I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.”

I am fascinated with behaviour and Kurt makes it simple “behave decently”, so maybe Humanist Design is just decent design. The world needs more decency.

The world also needs to be able to call out bullshit when it happens. I am sick of the way debate is canceled because it can be deemed racist, so I want to be clear that when I criticize the Communist Party of China I am not hating on Chinese people. Just like what I think of Kim Jong-un is not how I think of your average North Korean, however what I think about a Ruler can be extended to how I view their operatives. (As an anarchist I make a big distinction between Leaders and Rulers.)

Therefore I am going to talk about the CCP (Communist Party of China) and call them out for being the shitty dictators they are and I’m also going to call out their operatives that they have unleashed on the free world through things like the “Belt and Road Initiative”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative
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Now to be certain there are many innocent and naive individuals that are involved with this program, but you can also be certain that there are CCP operatives working on behalf of Xi Jinping’s agenda. The world cannot sit back silently when we read about places like Tibet, Taiwan and Hong Kong, but it is no secret that the CCP attempts to stifle debate in western democracies. It’s time for the world to wake up the fact that many counties are ruled by psychopaths and now may be the time to challenge them. No one votes in China so how can we know who we are dealing with and what their agenda may be when we negotiate with the CCP. It sure looks to me, when I consider the fact that there are buildings in China that are surrounded by nets to stop workers from committing suicide by jumping off the roof (google Foxconn), that we are dealing with a government that uses it citizens as slaves to corner the world economic market. They make everything and we owe them a lot (they hold a huge amount of America’s debt).

Now is the time to also clean up the financial world. Google Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya “who cares let em get wiped out” on Twitter (I hate Twitter but that’s where I can find the clip). Here is the full interview:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/04/10/who-cares-let-em-get-wiped-out-stunning-cnbc-anchor-venture-capitalist-says-let

What The Fuck

Lots to spew about but losing Mike Bezzeg just made me sad. FM Moving Pictures was very important to me growing up and Mike and James were central to the music scene.

Anyway, Covid shit. This probably changes the world and it’s at a time like this that I kind of wish that something happened with the Medical Device Development Program; a program I directed or was involved with for about a dozen years.

Things like using a Mask against this virus. Many would say “hey this isn’t rocket science” to which, as someone who has spent time in this field, I would reply “no it’s way worse, it’s human behaviour”.

Anyone that tries to tell someone else that using a Mask doesn’t help with the spread of disease must also tell that person that using a Mask PROPERLY can make a huge difference in its effectiveness. I want to believe that, if done right, most people can be taught to use a Mask or even a face cover in a way that will provide more benefit than harm.

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So, when the world does change I think there will be some that decide to go it alone. Look into the Intellectual Dark Web. There are guys out there with serious influence questioning institutions like the World Health Organization and when you see what happens when Taiwan is mentioned everyone has to wonder what is going on?

Eric Weinstein is right when he says the world now needs a different type of person to get us out of the mess we are in. The kind of person that can give the middle finger to authority and do what needs to be done. This may be that pivot point.

Quite some time ago I came to the realization that we have psychopaths and sociopaths in our ranks and it is well know that these types seek power. A very strong argument can be made that says the world is governed by psychopaths when you consider who runs some of these countries.

More to say later.

High pressure, blue bird powder skiing!

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I’m going to go back and write a bit about my last ski trip, but now I’m going to talk shit about stuff no one cares about. The interweb is quickly becoming a stinking cesspool and there are a few characters that are making it this way. These are the Scammers, the Hater, the Influencer and the Troll (or SHIT for short). Before the Internet the Influencer had to have some way to influence and in mountain culture this would come in the form of Routes published in guidebooks or articles written by or about you in a few select magazines. Today the bar is significantly lower as all one needs is an internet connection to have an audience of millions.

What is see happening is an Old Guard of Mountain Culture being challenged by a new breed of Influencer that grew up in very different times. These are days or “instant gratification” and “me too” movements and when you add Haters and Trolls to the equation the mood gets tense. You see it in the comments section of Influencer websites where the hard core feel left out as various components of the sport start to eclipse the main event. It happened in climbing when carrying “courage in your rucksack” was challenged and roadside testpieces replaced summits. When mixed climbing in “Vail” was thought to be undermining hard Alpine climbing.

Today the Old Guard or backcountry skiing is being challenged by Private backcountry resorts and airbags. I am entertained by reading ski forums debates and stay away from them, but there in now denying it the world is changing and ski mountaineering will be fractured even more as new Influencers come on board. I miss PerpetualSki by Trevor Sexsmith more every day.

More to come, stand by …

Old and no fucks left to give so I may as well talk shit about something I think about; skiing, technology and so on. I’m going to spew about all kinds of shit just because.

I’m getting tired of technology and innovation being the answer to real issues, but get annoyed when these things are applied to non-existent problems. I once wrote a university paper on Technocracy and referenced a guy called Jacque Ellul. I’ll go back and revisit him again soon. Anyway, I’m all for learning skills and technique to make things better and like lighting fires and ski touring transitions, there are many ways to do many things. Here I’m going to outline my take on a variety of things and I don’t care how you do it or what you think.

Want to make your transition faster so you can make more “laps”? Don’t care as when I’m doing “laps” it is not a serious day in the mountains and I’m doing “laps’ because it is probably too dangerous (or the weather is too bad) to be doing what I rather be doing; skiing the Alpine. If I am actually doing what I want then I may be doing only one transition and, if everything comes together right, it will be on a summit in the calm sunshine. What’s the hurry?

Sure, you want to be efficient in the mountains and this is how you get the bigger objectives done (no I don’t want to hear about your “mission”, I’m not in the military and this is not a war) so I will pontificate.

Try not to take your skis off at the uphill to downhill transition and keep your skins on until almost the end. Why? Taking your skis off means putting your feet in the snow potentially packing it into the tech binding toe inserts and possibly losing your ski down the mountain. For me it’s get to the top, make a space for myself and my pack. Take off my pack, set it down safely and open the top to get at my boot tongues (I would like to have a different way, but I really like the performance so…) and add/change any layers except my gloves. Bend over (use yoga moves) and buckle the boots for downhill, secure pant cuffs and clip in ski leases (don’t use leases for the up). Next I rotate my heels to downhill (clear out any packed snow) and stomp my heels to seat the rear pins. At this point I may strip my skins without removing my skis or I may take a break and have something to eat and drink. I leave my skins on if I’m going to hang out so I don’t accidentally slide off the mountain. I might sit down on my pack with ski tails speared into the slope.

Once I am finished enjoying the summit I will then strip my skins. I use both behind the ear and cross-over-the-knee technique on either side. I pack my skins in their “wallet” and into my pack (cause I take care of them and I am probably not putting them back on anyway) and then I put on downhill gloves and finish my downhill preparations. I use sunglasses and different tuques (what the fuck is a beanie anyway?) depending on conditions. Just before I start down I click off the toe lock on the tech binding.

That is it for now. Stay tuned for more ass talk.

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You pretty much have to take off skis when transitioning from skiing down to skinning back up and here are my thoughts. Take one ski off at a time to keep from punching through the snow up to your groin. Or worse falling through a crevasse if you are on a glacier.

First remove your pack in a secure place and way (change any clothes and such, take off your downhill gloves to keep them dry and put on your skinning gloves). Unlease and remove one ski and rotate the heel to tour mode. Compress the centre of the toe piece to snap the jaws shut on your dynafit style toes several times while smacking the ski on the base side with the heel of your other hand to dislodge any snow/ice buildup. Take care of this now.

Put the skin on and press it on well. Put the ski back on and pull up the toe lock. Swing the ski back and forth several times with your lower leg to chew out any snow/ice that got into the pin receiver divots of your boots. Do the other ski. Take care of the other things (eat, hydrate, piss, repack your pack etc) and start moving again.

Et Cetera:

When transitioning always clip gloves together when changing them out. Nothing is worse than losing (not loosing for fuck sake) a glove. By connecting them together I only have to hunt for one glove as the other one will follow. Ever pull a glove out only to watch the other one sail down the slope because it was kinda, but not really, attached to the one being pulled? This is a lesson. Same goes for always (ALWAYS) closing zippers on packs and apparel. Losing stuff is just lazy. Camp checks are essential.

I have found that one half litre of hot tea in a thermos and one litre of body temperature tea (I like rooibos) in an insulated water bottle works well for me. I drink the warm tea early to stay hydrated and to start to lose some weight. Being only warm means that my body doesn’t need to heat or cool the drink and therefore I can get it in quick. The hot tea I save for later and for a larger rest stop as it takes time to drink because it is hot. I like it to be super hot so that I may be able to stretch it out by melting snow into it. That’s another reason to save it for later. The half litre can be stretched quite a bit if the day is going longer than planned.

There is a new post over at the famous backcountry ski blog about skiing without a beacon or airbag. I started a reply and then realized that I was sounding like so many others that seem to want to talk about themselves and so I bring it here, where no one cares. The following was my reply.

This scenario doesn’t pertain to me as I have never used, or intend to use, an airbag. But it does interest me as I study human behaviour and how technology can alter how we act.

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I’ve always used a beacon as this is what was taught to me in the late 80s when I started backcountry skiing. There was not a lot of statistics at that time but the device was known to “find bodies” if used correctly and that was about all it offered. We spent most of our time understanding how to travel safely in avalanche terrain, to avoid avalanches at all cost and to have a procedure in place where avalanche terrain was unavoidable (like crossing an avalanche path below the start zone) and where it was sought (like skiing the steep and deep). My behaviour is set in that I will not ski without working beacons (I usually ski with one or two others, seldom more than that), but I don’t believe that safety can be purchased and that relying on technology of any kind to keep you “safe” in avalanche terrain is simply wishful thinking.

Ski season starts soon and I’m seeing lots of things online that I’m too chicken to post comments on, so I’ll say what I want here and everyone can fuck off.

Telemark Skiing In the Backcountry

It’s dead; let it die. I telemarked for 20 years and glad I did as it helped me become a much better skier than I would have been if I didn’t learn to use telemark technique while pushing skinny 207cm misery sticks with leather three pins boots mated to Chili cable bindings while skiing in “all conditions and all terrain”. But when I read “mic drop” comments like “if you left telemark to ski better in the backcountry you were doing it wrong” it makes me not want to engage in a public debate. No I left telemark after 20 years because I was so disappointed in NTN that I dropped a few Kg off my feet and got on dynafit.

Dynafit, to me, is all about going UP. After 20 years of shovelling a trail (as opposed to breaking a trail using a technique much like an icebreaker makes its path) my lower back and periformis muscles were so relieved by using dynafit bindings that I can now go much further and longer than I could with tele gear even though I am older. Yea, new telemark bindings now come with a “free pivot” to make breaking trail better, but that comes with the penalty of added weight (whereas dyafit is lighter and has no added lifted weight when you raise your heel to stride as the weight slides along the surface with the ski) and complexity but without a reliable release mechanism that I want if I’m ever in an avalanche.

Going down is just a bonus. Telemark turns are cool and if you are on gear that requires the use of the techniques inherent to telemark skiing then it makes sense. But if you insist on using this technique with modern heavy telemark equipment then you are at a disadvantage going up as well as probably spending at least some time fixing your gear. I know we did this a lot in my telemark days. The binding surface area that is available to meet the demands of a full on tele turn that goes from fast acceleration to dead stop makes breaking thing inevitable. If going up and making summits is your thing then dynafit is the only real options and if that comes with Alpine technique I’m just fine with that because people who think telemark is more beautiful or has more soul know nothing of either.
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Update to add another telemarker that just doesn’t get it.

“FYI…Telemark is only dead to people who never really did it in the first place.”

No telemark is alive to people that took it up for the wrong reason (going down) and don’t bother using it for its real value (going up). Telemark is just another tool to move in the mountains. Get over it.

Well I paid for another 3 years of hosting for this website, so I figure I should use it. I keep it for Public Disclosure of Intellectual Property, but I have nothing to disclose and if I don’t use this site I will forget how. I also use the site to post about my Adventures, but there is not much to report here either. Finally (like the three levels of conversation: gossip, idle chatter and discourse) I talk about ideas. So here are some things I think about.

My retirement plans failed in 2016 when I turned 50 and it was no longer possible to die young. Like it or not I am going to die old now. Anyway, I’m thinking about what this means and going back over my life and here are some things that I ponder.

Attraction to Danger and Managing Risk

I admit to being attracted to danger, but I also find it rewarding to successfully manage the risk associated with the danger. Skiing and mountaineering have been a way of life since I can first remember and I am constantly reminded of how dangerous it can be at certain times. Ski mountaineering can involve very complex types of danger, both objective danger and subjective danger.

Objective danger is easier to talk about, but it is not always easy to manage. The easiest way to manage high objective danger is to stay home. If you go then it is important to time it carefully. As of today the local mountains have not had much new snow, but have suffered through a drought with cold temperatures. I’m armchair mountaineering and reading about conditions more than I am seeing them first hand. Earlier in my life I might be tempted to just go and let the chips fall, but lately I’ve become more selective with my time. Right now the best I can hope for is an early melt-freeze to the summit tops, immediately followed by rain (to soak the surface and make a wet interface) that quickly turns to sleet and hopefully 2 feet of colder and colder snow. This would change my view on the objective danger associated with ski mountaineering in my local mountains.

Subjective danger is more difficult to talk about and its management can be even harder. I’ve been in four car wrecks in my time (three that I had no control over; I was T-Boned, Rear Ended and a passenger in a Roll Over) and now just driving to start skiing is a much bigger concern to me. Trying to thread the needle in tricky mountain conditions is risky and managing this risk eventually becomes a crap-shot where luck plays too big a role for me.

We have all heard about the idea that when you start something dangerous you also start with two figurative jars. The full Luck Jar and the empty Experience Jar. Every time you make a mistake you take from the Luck Jar and you put it into the Experience Jar. Well by now my luck jar is, if not empty, getting pretty thin and I have to rely on experience to get me through. Maybe this is why I am so critical of the new technology that has been developed in response to the risk of skiing in avalanche terrain. By the way, of the three individuals I personally know that died with their skis on, not one would have benefited from an Air-Bag device (one died in a crevasse fall, one fell through a cornice and one died of injuries in an avalanche).
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So, managing risk using technology adds yet another layer of complexity to something that is by nature incredibly haphazard. The idea that you can take on an avalanche and come out OK is not OK with me. When people call Air-Bags and Helmets “Safety Equipment” I can get irritated. At best these devices need to be thought of as “Protective Gear” as this is their only function. Your helmet has no use unless something hits you in the head or you hit your head on something. Climbing in the Canadian Rockies I wear a helmet because rock-fall is a hazard and my helmet was designed to help protect my head when something hits it. The idea that skiing the trees becomes “safer” when you wear a helmet is, to me, crazy. I ski trees and just thinking about hitting the kind of trees I ski and being OK is stupid.

I’ve heard some talk about these devices as being “last resort” types of equipment. Well I already have one of those and it’s called an Avalanche Transceiver. Transceivers were already in use by the time I started backcountry skiing so I didn’t question them, but I do know that they change how I view the risk and alter my behaviour (how do I know? ever show up at the trailhead and someone’s forgot their transceiver or it doesn’t work? do you still ski?). The transceiver is the “last resort” that is only used when someone is buried in an avalanche. It is only used after the fact and offers no protection from an avalanche. It is only useful in body retrieval (dead or alive).

So, when someone says that their Air-Bag is for use as a “last resort” I wonder what special power they believe the device has. The message manufacturers send is sometimes questionable and it seems to suggest that avalanches are not necessarily to be avoided as technology can protect and save you from your mistakes. And this is what is questionable. That you can take on an avalanche and be OK, when the truth is not all avalanches cause death and injury, but some do and an Air-Bag will be of no use.

I’ve never felt this way by wearing a transceiver as I know the danger of avalanche goes beyond asphyxiation, particularity in Canada where many avalanche paths end in timber and cliffs. Thinking that an Air-Bag will be of use when a propagating layer brings down an avalanche while you are skiing up a terrain trap is again stupid. Sometimes the best management risk is avoidance.

Gotta go ! To be Continued

I was up at Lake Louise helping out with the Ken Jones Classic Ski Mountaineering Event over the weekend. Sunrise on Sunday provided great views.

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Below: 3 – 3 1/2 Couloir in the left distance with Aemmer Couloir on Mount Temple looking fat.

Temple Aemmer Couloir

Below left to right: Quadra, East Face of Mount Fay and Mount Babel.
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Shot of Balfour from Saturday Afternoon.

Mount Balfour

I live by a few rules and an important one is that when you get the weather and conditions you go into the alpine. We managed to do Youngs Peak Traverse and Sapphire Col over two days in March.

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Living here you will encounter the Disgruntled Albertan (DS). I’m often in opposition to these types so I’ll call myself the Gruntled Albertan (GA).

I’m not shy about my beliefs, but publishing them can be uncomfortable. It can be too easy to fall into some kind of pity-party and become, well, disgruntled. The thing is that there are some pretty vocal disgruntled Albertan and they can be hurt if you are not as outraged as they are about their own beliefs. I have the misfortune to see the two main papers from town and it concerns me when I’m being insulted daily in the comments section of these publications. I’ve been called an idiot and worse for who I’ve voted for and what I believe, but I’d rather not feed that machine and I’ll try to avoid being, what is known around here as, a “bag of grief” or “BOG” for short.

I’m happy to be a part of Canada and I’m thankful for federal interventions in the west (I’ll give my view of the National Energy Program -NEP- under the other Trudeau later). I believe being part of Canada has given us the “standard of living” we enjoy and that the “prosperity” that is often associated with Alberta’s resource extraction is correct if you think prosperity is about urban sprawl, shopping malls, expensive cars and fancy bars. And if this is what we gave up so much for then we didn’t do well. What about those who value things like clean air and water, thriving ecosystems and real nature? Our version of prosperity doesn’t matter as it is likely to get in the way of profit, and that’s what prosperity really means around here: “profit”.

The profit machine works well and drafts the every man to join the fight through the media that they own and control, but I’m hopeful that the poll numbers I saw today are going to prove to be as accurate as the last presidential race. I really think we have made the right move with the government of the day and that to give back the reins to those who so poorly managed it for so many years would be asinine.

I don’t want to complain, but when blame continues to be aimed at the new government as opposed to being aimed at the former regime that could have done things differently it gets old. I heard this in the early 80’s when the NEP came along at the same time as a huge global recession. Yes, the Tarsands were abandoned by the international community as they, rightly so, saw them as a bad deal and a worse gamble (ask Lougheed what he thought about them). The local companies left behind ultimately reaped massive rewards but true to their nature they expect it to continue for ever and never did plan for the rainy day the Heritage Trust Fund was supposedly created for.

Really, we should all be pretty pissed off at how our shared natural resources were extracted for decades enriching a select few while never investing in the things we all knew were going to be needed in the future. Hell I remember talking about the end of oil in high school (early 80’s) and the need to diversify the western economy (sorry feds, but the Western Diversification Act has failed). The truth is the old way was never true “capitalism” and resembled much more corporate welfare and cronyism. And the truth is the body of capitalism has been dead for years, only the head hasn’t realized it yet.
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The former regime doesn’t want to take Alberta into the future (where fossil fuel is a thing of the past), it wants to drag us back to the glory days of old where they were allowed to take what they wanted without much regard to the future or the rest of us. Remember a few years ago the excited talk and plans for $200 oil? It was pretty disgusting watching some count their riches before the crap was even out of the ground (speculators should be jailed).

The Rest of Alberta (ROA) needs to be vigilant in keeping our home out of the hands of greedy groups that want to run the show in pursuit of their own agenda where profit is kept in private hands and where deficits are for the public to burden. Read the back pages of the paper where they hind the news about orphan wells and pipeline leaks. Ultimately the people of Alberta will be left holding the empty bag of unchecked natural resource extraction and all the money will be gone, spent on huge shitbox houses and super cars never intended for a Canadian winter. Some legacy.

I’m going to add to this over the next days carefully as things are often said without much real thought and that’s not what I intend to do

“Please God give us just one more oil boom and we promise not to piss it all away” stickers in support of the Tarsands coming soon!

Ok winter is over and it wasn’t a huge one for me for several reasons. I don’t live in the past so onto summer adventure.

I camp in my van (a 1994 Delica L400 SpaceGear) all year long, but I use different set ups for my kitchen depending on the season. When winter car camping I use a system based on a MSR XGK white gas stove as well as a World Famous Portable Gas Stove that runs on butane.

MSR XGK

The XGK is used to boil water for my morning coffee (a huge part of getting things moving in the morning) as well as the water I will bring along for a day of ski touring.

XGK for winter car camping

The World Famous I use to make breakfast using a cast iron fry pan. You need to keep the butane canister warm (I keep it in the cooler -that I use to keep things from freezing- and then put it in my inside pocket when I get up), but it simmers well for cooking eggs. And I need a big trucker breakfast for a day of winter mountaineering. I use the frying pan and a plate to poach eggs in salsa & tomatoes, topped with grated old cheddar. I put some soft corn tortillas on top of the cheese and let everything steam under the plate. To this I add some prosciutto as it’s thin and it doesn’t need to be cooked (I find frying bacon to be too messy to bother with and another topic for the kitchen -cleaning up).

The World Famous Portable Gas Stove being used in Summer Mode

So, I use the XGK only in the winter as I don’t need to melt snow or boil water as much in summer. I mainly use the World Famous for most of my summer car camping cooking as it is just so damn easy to set up and use. If I want to really live it up I will make my coffee in a french press with fresh ground beans.

But, I always have my summer backcounty kitchen in the van if I need extra cooking power on the road.
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I like to cook on the fire when I can and that why I usually travel with a grill. I recently found some rotisserie motors I needed for making a rotational molder and discovered the square skewers that they come with. I found a grill that attaches to the skewer and this works great for fire roasting on the road (I’d take it sea kayaking).

Grill

All right, you all know how this works (ha). I post shit and try to get back and fix it but I’m lazy so it’ll never get finished, but here is some more shit to consider. This IMCO lighter is the fucking best lighter I have ever owned. Austrian military, the originals were made out of shell casings. They are no longer made and hard to find (this one came from Japan). I was just in Austria, Slovakia, The Czech Republic and Germany and I could not find another.

IMCO

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This lighter in candle mode is the ticket for lighting all kinds of stoves, lanterns, fires etc.

The kind of driving I’m talking about is found on the numerous undivided two lane highways found in eastern British Columbia (hell even sections of the TransCanada are undivided two lane in this part of the country). This is complicated and I’ll try to simplify it. The main areas of concern are: 1) things in your control & things not in your control and 2) information & communication.

The biggest thing in your control when driving is your brakes. Drive like you don’t have any (for the most part), as even thinking about touching your brakes at highway speeds during winter driving in the mountains can get you in trouble. Go into corners a little slower than you want and then power out of them. It is always preferable to ride the throttle than to ride the brake as once you hit the brakes and your tires are no longer spinning at the speed the car is moving you have lost real contact with the road and it is not easy to get that contact back. By slowing down before the corner (often just by taking your foot off the accelerator) you make sure you will not need to hit the brakes in the corner when you lose your nerve. Once you know you’re good you can then power out of the corner and get back to the speed you want to be going.

This rant will be all over the place, but the next thing I want to talk about is the distance between you and the car ahead (in your control) and the guy that is on your ass (out of your control). This leads me to The Three Second Rule (3SR). Give the guy ahead of you three seconds and the guy behind you should respect this also. The only time you need to disobey this rule is when you need to pass. On these roads passing is mandatory and YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO PASS OTHER VEHICLES. This is something everyone needs to understand and you shouldn’t show up if you cannot figure out how to safely pass.

Passing: Now listen up and I will let you in on some things. Every once and a while you will be given an opportunity to pass other vehicles using your very own passing lane. This is a luxury and you need to take maximum advantage of these opportunities. Another tidbit: you even get advanced warning for when these passing lanes will occur and that leads me to the first introduction to the “information and communication” content of today’s ass talk.

Look for the signs that say “Passing Lane in 2 Kms” as well as all the other signs that tell you things like the real speed limit (black on white signs), suggested speeds for corners (black on yellow and the curving line is actually a depiction of what’s coming up) and lots of other useful information. OK back to passing and the passing lanes. You need to use those two kilometers (sometimes it is one or three km, but usually it’s two) to be in the best position to use the passing lane and this means knowing when to back off and give the guy ahead (that you want to pass) some space. This is so you can gun it at the right time and get up to speed to start passing at the very beginning of the pass lane. Passing lanes are often on inclines (going up) so if you drive a vehicle like mine (4 cylinder intercooled turbo diesel) you need to be in the power band in the top gear to really pass quickly and I will digress here to say that the 3SR is very important when passing. Try to stay 3 seconds back before the pass. This helps keep the amount or crap hitting the front of your ride down and you should always go as far past the guy you are passing as you can go before you get back in the other lane to minimize the shit you spray on him.

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OK, I’ve established the need to be able and willing to pass and I will now touch on some others issues around passing. In other parts of the world drivers help one another to pass by signaling that the road ahead is open (when there are still only two lanes but the centre line is broken indication that it is legal to pass using the lane running in the opposite direction). The way they do this is to use their left turn signal. Now this is a bad idea because every once in a while someone is actually turning left and not signaling a pass and the resultant collision is often fatal. I’ve adopted a method of letting others know it is safe to pass and it is often effective as if you insist on being within my three-second zone with safe passing opportunities I will make you pass me if it is safe.

So instead of using my left signal to communicate safe passing when someone invades my rear space I will simply push down on my RIGHT indicator switch so that my right signal light lights up just once. This is very often effective as some drivers just naturally want to have someone else drive for them so they get up on you ass and let you determine how fast to go etc. Well the right turn light often will clue some drivers into figuring out that there is a safe opportunity to pass and some will take it. Others for whatever reason will not clue in and so the next move is to use the four way flashers when the next safe passing opportunity comes. If someone continues to drive in my three-second zone then I will reach over and push the four way flash button and flash my lights once. To those behind it looks like I’m putting on my brakes without me having to remove my foot from the accelerator (remember braking is dangerous) and this will often get some to take the pass while others will drop back to a safe distance. The remaining few are the ones that really piss me off. They want me to drive for them but I’ll bet their reaction times are way slower than mine and if I did need to brake, for wildlife for instance, then I’m sure they would be ramming into my rear end and I’d be fucked.

So for these I reserve the final stage of my program. Again once if there is a safe opportunity (no other cars on the road within a long sight distance and a long passing lane) I will not only hit my four way flashers I will leave them on and then take my foot off the accelerator and start to coast. Again this will lead some to finally make the pass but a stubborn few will just slow down with me. If it is safe I will persist and actually start to brake staying in my lane. I will refuse to move to the shoulder of the road as this is an unsafe practice and I have slowed to 30kms an hour in a 90 km zone before the offender would pass. I don’t like having to do this but I refuse to leave something I can’t control riding my ass.

So to conclude: don’t use your brakes, help each other pass and use the available information to drive appropriately. Anyway, this is just a small sample of winter driving tips I could lecture on but for now I’ll let it go.

Never met the man but I’m dam sad to hear of his passing.

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I’ve noticed more, what I would call, human-powered ski trips in the last while with both Wildsnow and Straightchuter doing trips without helicopters this year. PerpetualSki is also constantly doing cool trips without a snow machine. Good for them.

I’m into small, cheap thrills and like to hear about low-key adventures in the mountains. I’ve been thinking about winter ski mountaineering trips and the different kinds that can be put together and the type of stuff I have been working on for the past 30 years and what sort of ski trip this stuff is suitable for. Here are some broad categories of trips to get started:

1. The helicopter into a hut for a week trip (heavy camping).
2. The helicopter into a remote area trip (heavy camping).
3. A traverse. Multi-day backpacking in winter on skis crossing high mountain terrain (light camping).
4. Going for summits. This could mean camping heavy in parking lots to overnights in huts (lighter camping) or multi-day trips in high mountain terrain (light camping).

I’ve got my systems for the heavy camping (sleeping in the van at Rogers Pass qualifies for this), but it’s the stuff for light winter camping that I’ll disclose in the dump.

Disclosure Dump

It’s time to disclose some more ideas and because I’m cheap and low-tech I thought I would do some drawings and descriptions to lay it out and to claim authorship and ownership of the concepts.

Use: All of the following ideas are to be used during multi-day ski mountaineering trips where a team of three will be travelling and camping on glaciers. (Other uses are assumed and while I will not expand this discussion into these other uses I don’t relinquish any rights to these concepts when they are used for any other purpose.)

What is key to the overall approach is not the individual components, but rather how those components are integrated into a system. Because the team is doing something that requires more than a day to accomplish they will have to camp. Camping means melting snow, cooking, eating and sleeping and the first layer of the overall system is the qarabu Winter Shelter (or the VRS System). The shelter system has been previously disclosed and I refer the reader (ha!) to that section. What is new to be disclosed in the backpack system being developed to carry the winter shelter and all the other necessary equipment needed to ski mountaineer over multiple days.

Click on the photo to have it resized to fit your screen.

Figure 1 Below: qarabu Winter Shelter.

winter shelter system

Therefore in this disclosure I will describe:

1. A backpack system designed to carry the winter shelter that also incorporates the Mountain Tool Holster (previously disclosed). The system includes an extension (Overnighter) and a Sled.
2. Specialized Pants that incorporate the Criss-Crotch Fly (previously disclosed) and are designed to work with the backpack.
3. A specialized Vest that is designed to work with the backpack.

Figure 2 Below: Pants, Vest, Backpack, Overnighter, Sled, Winter Shelter (packed).

The Backpack

The backpack is designed to work as a 50 litre daypack (big enough for some inverse segregation) and can be expanded with the 50 litre Overnighter to carry the load required for winter camping and transporting the winter shelter (when split 3 ways). A Sled* is designed to fit over everything for hauling and the Mountain Tool Holster and Ski Carry systems are integral to the design. I am experimenting with an unusual manufacturing method for making backpacks, however, the experimental feature is that the backpack has no padding. I’ve asked myself this questions for years:

Why do we pad the backpack when it’s the body that needs protection?

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In this backpack concept the padding is placed in the specially designed qarabu Pants and Vest so that the pack can be stripped to the essentials. I’ve gone through the exercise of counting all the layers between my skin and the outside world when ski mountaineering and the number or them is ridiculous. Between the under layers (underwear with elastic waist band, long johns with elastic waist band), the pants, belt, harness and padded backpack waist strap there are too many. However, the padding is really no where near the body, it’s in the pack that sits on top of all the layers and it shifts with the pack and not with the body. This causes conflicts.

I’m going to put the padding inside the Pants and with the integrated runner-strength belt the Pants can be cinched onto the body placing the padding where it will be most beneficial. There might also be opportunity to reduce the padding to a minimum if it can be strategically located. The system will come with simple leg loops to form a sit harness when used with the belt.

Figure 3 Below: Experimental Massing and Construction Model

Backpack

Figure 4 Below: This is NOT the backpack concept. This is to illustrate the Mountain Tool Holster Concept.

Mountain Tool Holster with an Ice Axe

I’ve been looking at all the vacuum formed packaging we have these days and how fucking tough this shit is. It’s also cheap, plentiful, recyclable and I have access to a vacuum former, so it’s an easy experiment to try and make the main compartment out of two pieces of vacuum formed PETG. All components would be attached to the two halves and then they would be welder/bonded together.

Figure 5 Below: A Vacuum Formed Container Showing Abuse

PETG Vacuum Formed Container

Figure 6 Below: The Vacuum Form In Progress.

Backpack Vacuum Form

The Pants

The Pants are strategically padded to protect the hips and lower back from the backpack and to pad the suspended body as when repelling (almost said abseiling) using the runner-strength belt and leg loops as a sit harness. The Pants are designed to integrate with with the backpack waist belt and Mountain Tool Holster system.

The Pants incorporate the Criss-Croth Fly concept and have specially designed pockets to carry electronics and essentials. The Pants have a reinforced and articulated knee and the lower leg portion can be zipped off, just below the knee sub-assemby. There could be several lower leg/gaiter options (as well as lengths), but for ski mountaineering the lower leg will be integrated with the ski boot through a snow gaiter/power strap concept.

Figure 4 Below: Sketch model showing the Criss-Crotch concept. Also shows the power strap / gaiter concept.

CrissCrotch©

The Vest

The Vest is padded to protect the upper body from the backpack. It is a pull over designed to fit inside the pants, cut to allow fly access and comes with a simple hood. There are two special pockets on the lower chest (below the sternum strap) to carry a transceiver and camera (or other options).

To be Continued (I really mean it tis time).

I continue to update, but jeeze what a shitshow. Glad I’m only doing this to disclose.

* For safety on glaciers and just plain control I go for one sled between minimum of two people, so one sled would go with a team of three and it would be in the middle of the rope on a glacier.

To stay moving requires upkeep.

I was packed and on my way. I only needed to shut down the computer and grab a few last things. Before closing it down I did one last computer check on conditions only to find that an avalanche advisory had been issued for pretty much the entire interior ranges of BC (I was headed to Rogers Pass) since I last checked (it was earlier calling for mod, mod, con).

I started looking into it and found that the exact reason I was heading to the Pass was the same reason why the forecasters were worried. A high pressure ridge was looking to provide some clear skies on Sunday and I was hoping to use the visibility to get up high in the alpine. I don’t bother going all the way to the Pass (it’s about 3.5 hours away) if I don’t think conditions and weather will cooperate. So on Sunday they were expecting it to be nice and this was what was going to wake up those weak layers and cause avalanches. Why would I go all the way there to ski short pitches below tree line when it’s bluebird. Not worth it.

These are one in a million type of conditions. Sure there are going to be avalanches with some consequence depending upon what decisions are made, but these are also the kind of conditions that you could ski 999,999,999 times and not hit that special spot at the right moment. However, on the millionth time you hit it that spot it would be catastrophic. No helmet or airbag would help as the entire thing would rip and drive you through the end of the historic avalanche fan and deposit you in multi metre deep debris. Not going to survive one of those.

Anyway I was working on the tent. Here are some pictures.
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There has been a lot of carnage in the backcountry of America, with Canada entering the fray when five snowmobilers died recently.

I read about these incidents at the same time I am reading about all the new technology that’s going to make skiing in the backcountry safer (and I have decided that I can’t be bothered to think about other users of the backcountry as I find myself already on the fringe of the skiing community when it comes to my views on technology) and I have to wonder: What is really going on?

I haven’t had time to fully analyse each of these avalanches but it does sound like there were known weaknesses in the snow pack and that the published danger ratings were high. I know that one guy died in Utah even though he was wearing and properly engaged his airbag and I saw a picture of another guy sitting in a debris pile with a flaccid bag hanging off him with the caption saying that the bag was destroyed in the avalanche (torn by a tree or something).

It’s my opinion (and let’s remember what opinions are like) that almost none of these avalanche victims would have been “safer” with an airbag and that this is not a problem that has a technological fix, it is a problem that requires a change in behaviour (there I said it again). I am not going to follow avalanche airbag technology as I just don’t believe that you can seriously consider taking on an avalanche and coming out OK. The focus should be on avoiding avalanches at all cost. What this means is that people need to say “no, I’m not going to ski that slope this day” and then follow through.

There are three things I think about when observing human actions. These three things are: beliefs, intentions and behaviour. What is interesting about these three things is that they are interconnected, but I can only observe a person’s behaviour. To find out about their beliefs and intentions I need to ask questions or guess if the individual is not available (i.e. dead). So when avalanche danger is high and I want to ski I start with what I believe. I believe I know what I’m doing, I read the forecast (weather and avalanche) and plan accordingly (my intentions). When I arrive at my destination I have already started my own evaluation and amend my plans as I go.

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If I line up my beliefs (what I have discovered about snowpack conditions, weather, my abilities) with my intentions (no one intends to die in an avalanche, but that not enough) and behave in an appropriate manner (not skiing that slope on this particular day) then I should be safer than someone with the belief that the technology that they have purchased will somehow make being in an avalanche OK.

Equipment manufacturers are going to go where the money is and the money is not in eduction it’s in gizmos that entice you with promises that cannot be kept. It is up to the individual to ensure their own safety and this means the right behaviour for present conditions.

Stay tuned this is just a draft

So instead of skiing I’m testing the tent. WTF

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Surfers talk about ‘The Glide’. According to Allan Weisbecker this occurs during certain physical endeavors where it becomes possible to inhabit a quasi-mystical state that is also known as ‘The Zone’.

Weisbecker considers The Glide to be not only a mental state but also a physical place on a wave and in his book “In Search of Captain Zero” he talks about the”perfect position of trim that affords him a moment of utter relaxation—a state of grace, you might say—because any further movement or weight shift on his perfectly planing surfboard would only serve to disturb the elegant equilibrium of his place in the world.”

I was skiing some very nice powder during the time I was reading Allan’s book (thanks to GS) and while he makes reference to skiers and the ski turn he doesn’t talk about powder skiing and I got to thinking about where The Glide happens during a powder turn. Certainly, in technical terms, a surfing Glide will be different from a skiing Glide but I know that I can find that quasi-mystical state of being that he talks about when I’m skiing powder.

I think that I achieve The Glide when the snow is light enough and the slope steep enough to get my centre of mass in front of my skis and start to feel like I’m free falling. This happens to me most during ‘The Reach’. This state of grace, this elegant equilibrium occurs when my upper body is weightless and my skis are forming sinuous curves of compacted powder to make the turn on, all while my body is flowing through this low-resistance ephemeral material we call ‘champagne’ or ‘cold smoke’. The Reach is the time when I am still anticipating the pole plant and the next turn is still a vision in my mind. I want this moment to hang where I am anticipating the next turn but my body is still executing a turn that my mind has already forgotten. At this time there is no need for further movement as the perfect plane has been reached and the pole plant can wait.

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The Reach (Photo: Mark Austin)

Great photo and book but what shit. May be one day I’ll finish one of these things.

Find A Wolverine is Eating My Leg, by Tim Cahill

and read “Time and Space on the Raggedy Edge“