Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

No hiking for me today. We sure are getting a lot of rain this year, good for the woods, lousy for my waistline. I’m beginning to think I won’t be going on the Canada Day Mt. Roberts hike again this year as I’m just not in good enough shape. I guess I’ll have to break [...]

One of the cool things about living in Rossland is the number of community celebrations we have. Today was the 9th annual Spring Wing Ding. Merchants along the main drag put out sidewalk sales stuff, others sold burgers etc for good causes. The main attraction though was the entertainment in the town square. A [...]

Well it’s warmed up around here enough this past week that I thought I would try one of the more southern exposed trails asnd see if the snow was gone. It is certainy starting to disappear but it’s still pretty icy in the shadows. Her’s a look at what some of the trail looks like:
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I’ve mentioned before that I live in the mountains and some of the pictures I’ve posted here have given you some ideas of the terrain. However the elevations really strike home when you look at a satellite photo of the town.

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It’s on the hillsides surrounding Rossland that [...]

We are having very strange weather around here this year. Basically we had spring in February and the majority of snow in town melted. This should not have happened until April. Today I woke up to find it snowing hard outside. Winter again. I’m not complaing though. We had too little snow this winter and [...]

Well, despite it not freezing overnight, the bobsled races went ahead anyways. There was a fairly decent crowd on the corner

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There were 10 home made ‘bobsleds” and the first of two runs each, while slower than usual, was not bad.

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but by the [...]

Tonight marks the start of Rossland’s annual Winter Carnival. For me the best part of the carnival is the bobsled races (click for shots of last year’s) that shoot down the street out back of the house here. To prepare the course city work crews block off the street the night before, groom the [...]

It has been extremely cold here all weekend. Cold enough that snowshoeing was right off he activities menu while reading was definitely on. Last night it started to warm up and so of course the snow really started falling. Here’s a couple of views from my kitchen window. Not only is the snow overhanging [...]

Last Sunday I went to a tsunami victims benefit concert here in town. All the performers were locals. Well almost all, my neighbour in the other apartment in the house is Tomo who is visiting us from Japan for a year. Tomo is a pretty good guitar player and has written some nice sounding songs [...]

Still trying to figure out how to take pictures in the snow with this Canon A70 and get rid of the blue tones. I’m guessing by the end of winter I might have figured it out. Today I tried +2 on the exposure and that was too much. The problem is that my eyesight [...]