British Columbia

During a guided week of backcountry skiing, the first thing you do with the group is an avalanche rescue and awareness training session.  You get everybody to practice with their rescue equipment, you set up mock scenarios and critique the groups’ efforts at dealing with each situation.  You also brief everyone on the snowpack, explain the problems, the hazards and how to differentiate safe vs unsafe terrain while you are out skiing.  Another thing you talk about is what you would do if you were caught in an avalanche.  For me, my explanation was largely theoretical until last Friday.  I have

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We had some all American boneheads at Battle Abbey in 2006 who made this little movie. There is some good skiing in it and some sad behavior. Battle Abbey Bonehead Movie

Clean burning woodstoves are a great way to heat your home in Golden. We are surrounded by forest, our own local, renewable resource. People claim that propane is cleaner, but just go and look at the areas where petroleum resources are extracted, consider the infrastructure required to process and transport the gas, then tell me that cutting up dead trees with a stinky chainsaw and an old pick up isn’t a cleaner alternative. The trees are right here and the propane comes from Alberta. Take a wiff of that diesel exhaust coming off the tanker truck, imagine the fumes from the refinery.