Monthly Archives

May 2006

  • Scale of wonder

    The Shoup Glacier toe (the part that reaches the water) is over 300′ tall. You just can’t tell from photos. When bits crack and fall off (many pieces as big as bungalows), the sound…

  • Bergy bit, Dead Ahead!!

    It’s a good tired. Since my last post, I flew in a wee De Haviland Beaver over the Chugha mountain range to the interior of Wrangell Elias National Park. We stayed at America’s last…

  • Baked Alaska

    It’s been hot here. My face is tingly from the sun. I’m just a little south of Whitehorse. This is Alaska. Since arriving here Wednesday, I’ve been on three small bush planes flying over…

  • No Wifi

    I’m in Juneau tonight, but tomorrow we head back to the woods for 2 days. Lack of TV, radio or Internet in the wilderness would make a great excuse for awesome star gazing if the…

  • Whale of a time

    Glaciers are made of snow that is compressed over centuries by even more snow into ice that is so dense that it twists light so that only the blue of the spectrum escapes. It’s…

  • Like a glacier

    Jasper was up all night throwing up. Suzy says it was eight times. I lost track. Then in the morning while Suzy was at the gym, Simon has two creamy butt-to-ankle poos — in…

  • No Royalty Here. Just Royalties.

    The link is right at the top of the page. “Got a Problem?” Yeah, I think I killed Jasper’s sea monkeys. Suzy, Jasper, Simon and I went to Kingston this week for an overnight…

  • Don’t have a cow

    The crisis is over. Gordongroup a rapidly fading memory. The Sponsor is paying to redevelop the light bulb plan. My sidewalk is dusted with apple blossoms. All’s well. I’m a bag of nerves. Maybe…