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Not So Humble Roots | Mountain Nerd
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For friends of high places. Not So Humble Roots. Growing up on a farm south of Winnipeg, I dreamt of British Columbia. Mountains symbolized the west coast. In love sight unseen with the west beyond the west. In these opening lines of her best-selling history of British Columbia,. The West Beyond the West,. Jean Barman, nicely summed up the romantic sentiment that has inspired so many Canadians to “Go West! Boasting the mighty Gatineau Hills. Many of my friends here in Whistler went to the same high schoo...
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The Grave Effects of Gravity | Mountain Nerd
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For friends of high places. The Grave Effects of Gravity. What goes up must come down. Mountains, by definition, are a whole lot of up, so the potential for disaster is ever-present. This was shown pretty forcefully with the recent Mount Meager landslide, which was actually triggered by a snow and ice avalanche higher up on the volcano’s glaciated slopes. (Here are some pretty outstanding aerial photos of the disaster. The flood, geologists now reckon, was the result of a landslide on “ the Barrier.
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Book Review: The Grizzly Manifesto by Jeff Gailus | Mountain Nerd
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For friends of high places. Book Review: The Grizzly Manifesto by Jeff Gailus. In Defence of the Great Bear. A Rocky Mountain Books. 168 pages, hardcover. A spectre is haunting North America’s grizzlies–the spectre of knuckleheads (as well as reckless industrialization, urban sprawl, highways, railroads, inert bureaucracies, and public apathy). Fortunately for grizzlies and their supporters, journalist and long-time wilderness advocate Jeff Gailus. Is a welcome addition to Rocky Mountain Books’ tim...
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Chamonix slidecast | Mountain Nerd
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For friends of high places. Landscape is a powerful thing. It can be the fertile soil of “home” in which we take root, or the greener pastures that inspire so much travel, day-dreaming, and restlessness. Announced a slidecast competition last fall, it was a no-brainer that Chamonix would be my muse. It also helped that my brother. The Network in Canadian History and Environment) is an organization that has done excellent work in supporting and promoting the study of environmental history, historical geog...
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Virtual Mountaineering? | Mountain Nerd
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For friends of high places. One of the great pleasures of mountaineering literature is its ability to transport the reader from their comfortable reading chair into a sublime alpine landscape. Conversely, anyone who has read a lot of mountaineering literature has dealt with the frustration of trying to follow the narrative through a complex, unfamiliar landscape. I’m struggling to come up with a clear, concise description of the finished product; “virtual mountaineering”? Regardless, my aim was to re-pac...
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Garibaldi Park: “Vancouver’s Alpine Playground” | Mountain Nerd
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For friends of high places. Garibaldi Park: “Vancouver’s Alpine Playground”. I’m deep in the final stages of thesis writing here, so I’ve got a bit of a “lazy” post this month. Last weekend I attended the bi-annual BC Studies Conference. Looking back upon a sojourn in the park, one is intensely aware. That one has been living in an atmosphere. Afforded by other mountainous districts. It is difficult to. Analyze this feeling, but it may. Teeming thousands. The. Contrast is so sharp. To. Morning, and the.
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Deep Summer slideshow | Mountain Nerd
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For friends of high places. My new job at the Whistler Museum. Has given me the opportunity to work on a bunch of interesting projects. For one, I’ve been contributing weekly content to the new site Whistler Is Awesome. Part of a network of “ Is Awesome” sites). This week’s post. Is the second half of a profile I wrote about pioneer local ski-mountaineer Pip Brock; a longer version. With more photo content can be found on the Whistler Museum’s own blog,. To see the top 3 shows from Deep Summer). Thanks f...
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Mining Whistler’s Past | Mountain Nerd
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For friends of high places. This is a re-post that I originally wrote for the Whistler Museum blog. Whistler draws people from around the world for any number of reasons: skiing, biking, wildlife viewing, night clubs, fine dining, mining wait, mining? Although a largely forgotten aspect of our region’s past, the (mostly unfulfilled) promise of underground riches was one of the Whistler Valley’s main draws in the days before world-class shopping. Following on their heels, tens of thousands of goldseekers ...
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Curriculum Vitae | Mountain Nerd
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For friends of high places. History), University of Northern British Columbia, 2010. MA-Thesis: The Repeated Discoveries of the Coast Mountains, 1858-1937, (2010 projected completion). Supervisor: Dr. Ted Binnema. BA, (History), University of British Columbia / Concordia University, 2006. DEC, (Liberal Arts), Heritage College CEGEP, 2001. Graduated with academic distinction. Integrative Project: The False Promise of Utopia in Post-Enlightenment Europe: History, Literature and Film. 8211; Vancouver’s ‘Alp...
