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Middle Fork of the Salmon River 09

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:44:08 +0000

A school trip down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River from Idaho to Montana. This amazing river started out at Marsh Creek with about 3 feet of snow beside us and maybe 15 cfs of water flow. By the end of the trip when we passed the confluence of the Main Salmon River it was raging at around 10 000 CFS and rising quickly every day.

I’m trying a new photo script on the site, so click on the thumbnail and the whole series should appear. From there you can click on all the photos to get a larger view.

The photo script is called Shashin and is available for free at Shashin

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WhiteWater Summer

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:29:40 +0000

I had the fortune of being employed as a white water rafting guide this summer and it was a fantastic experience. Not only did I get to spend every day on the Fraser river, but I also got paid for it! When we weren’t taking clients down the river I had the chance to take my sister down on an inflateable Kayak and did a lot of regular kayaking with my boys, Brett and Shawn aswell. At the end of the summer I caved and bought my own boat, a Bliss Stick, Mystic, it’s amazing! I’m so pumped to have my own gear now.

So much fun on the river!

BC Tree Planting

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:01:42 +0000

Another year of profitable and fun tree planting based around the BC’s beautiful interior. Blame the economy, the recession or whatever but tree prices were down unfortunately. Too bad for me I still made more money doing this than I can doing anything else, so another season it is! The start of the season was cold as hell and the contract started late due to the incredible amount of snow still on the ground. Once things got moving it all went smoothly though and we had some incredible time off in Wells Grey Park. A few of us opted to hike to a few waterfalls and check out Helmecken falls which is the tallest waterfall in Canada. Pretty cool stuff!

It’s a good thing you only take pictures of the fun times because just by looking at these pictures I’m excited for next seasons slavery! Happy planting.

Adventure Sports Video

admin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:51:18 +0000

A short movie I made for my computers class. It’s mostly pictures from trips I’ve done in School including some moutaineering, white water kayaking, surfing, hiking and camping.

Skeet Skeet!

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:07:38 +0000

Shooting some skeet at Kamloops shooting range with Jeremiah, Candice and Sandi

Ski Touring

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:21:11 +0000

After a rocky start our ski touring trip got under way. We had a temperature inversion which resulted in a low lying valley fog. Our chopper couldn’t break through the cloud cover so we were stuck in Clear Water. Once we finally got a blue patch we were off. After a short ride in a 1960s snowcat from the owner of Wells Gray Adventures, our chopper picked us up.

Clucking

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:44:03 +0000

Climbing isn’t enough fun anymore? Try out clucking for a new twist on two of your favorite activities.

Kayaking in Tofino, BC.

admin — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:19:56 +0000

The Sea Kayaking course was 3 days in class and then 4 days paddling in Tofino. The drive took us around 10 hours including the ferry. We stayed at the Paddlers inn, sweet accommodations. We had our own kitchen, 5 bedrooms, two bathrooms with showers. Wish every trip was like this. Our days were spent kayaking around the inlets and open coast of Tofino. We spent a lot of time surfing waves on Chestermans beach on our second day. And on our third day it was so foggy we had to work on compass work because we couldn’t see in front of us.

Wapta Glacier

admin — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:48:23 +0000

This is the Mountain 1 course. The Wapta Glacier is just outside of Lake Louise, along the icefield parkway between Lake Louise and Jasper. Our day’s went something like this.
Day 1: Drive to the hostel
Day 2: Climb to the Hut
Day 3: Learn how to walk on the glacier, do rope work, and do crevace rescues with mechanical advantage.
Day 4: Hike way up the glacier to do crevace rescue practice and some ice climbing. We also learned self arrests. To top this day off Brett fell into a crevace on our way home that was about 100 feet deep, way to go!
Day 5: We summited Mt. Nicholas and took some awesome photos while hanging off a 1000 foot tall feature.
Day 6: Summited mt. Ayesha, wow, this was pushing it. Great day.
Day 7: Returned to the Hut and had our Crevace rescue exam.
Day 8: Walk down from the hut and head home!

It was a great trip, nothing quite like reaching the summit!

Mt Nicolas Summit!

admin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:48:00 +0000

It feels so good to summit peaks! I think I’m addicted.