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The name of the blog is Salish Sea.
The upper Klinaklini River is part of the protected area included in the Central and North Coast LRMP. For those of us who care about the stunning land values in the Chilcotin, the Premier's announcement on 2006Feb07 was wonderful news. Congratulations to everyone who worked to bring agreement and peace to this whole magnificent region of British Columbia!
Where is the Klinaklini? This is the watershed that drains the Chilcotin Plateau to the north and west of the Waddington Range. It flows into Knight Inlet. The lower Klinaklini had been roaded and logged as far north as the Canyon. The whole northern Klinaklini is very remote, largely untraveled, and is brimming with outstanding biodiversity values. Here are some maps (large images):
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In August 2005 we spent 4 days installing windows on this hut. The hut is an amazing project. Its built on a mountain col about 6,000' above sea level. Click the image to see my photos. Keep clicking on prev to go to the next image in the series. (Yes, I know that it seems backward.) Scroll down to See different sizes on the right to go to a page with a larger image. Click Jim Haberl Fund for information about this wonderful organization. |
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This is a Flickr badge showing photos in a set called Haberl Hut on the Serratus/Dionne Col - 2005 August. Make your own badge here.
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These are a few snapshots to show what we found up on Cloudburst at the end of May 2003.
One of our plans is to build one or more igloos up there so that we can return for the night carrying only a day pack. We have that clever gadget from Grandshelters to make stable, long lasting, large (or small) igloos. Drop me an email if you are interested in any of this, to: ski [at sign] ballantyne.com and put 'Cloudburst' in the Subject field.
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Click the map to enlarge. The scale is at the bottom. There are probably more waypoints than you need, but the line was taken in the forest where the GPS had some trouble seeing its satellites. The overall route is good, but the some points might be off by 50 meters or so. The grey grid is part of the calibration of the map, and you can see how closely it fits on the blue lines of the topo map. Email ski [at sign] ballantyne.com if you would like the GPS data points as an Excel file. UPDATE. Since this information was collected, we've followed this GPS route several times. It is really easy to turn on the GPS as we are skiing up or down, and see if our line is at least parallel to the GPS route; and keep going. This is using the ROUTE feature on the GPS receiver, not the GO TO WAYPOINT function. We like all those data points! And it is really easy to pop them on the computer map and upload the route to the GPS receiver (and a horrible pain if you try to enter the points manually with the buttons on an eTrex receiver). |
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In 2001 we were very lucky to be offered a trip to the divide (first waypoint) by Powder Mountain Snowcats. They see their business as supportive of backcountry skiers and riders, and wish to distinguish their operation from the snowmobilers. The cat was on its way up Tricouni. |
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As we climbed the outstanding Cloudburst alpine slopes, Nile Cole took this picture looking North to Tricouni Mountain. |
In January of 2002 five of us spent five days skiing in the Chilcotin... here are a few pictures.
Bowfest is a major annual event in the life of Bowen Islanders. Tir na nOg Theatre School is proud to participate in the Parade and to build and run the burger stand next to the pub on the festival site. Many volunteers contribute countless hours to this project as part of the fund raising activites to support the theatre school. This year the weather turned wonderful - after a very wet week - and the food sales actually exceeded last year.
Please click here to see our snap shots of the event.
(They are photographs and may take a while to load)
And many thanks to everyone who contributed!
Last year's pictures are still here (somwhere below on this page). If you want distant relatives to see any of these images, email them soon because they may vanish as we need more room at this site.
This section has some pictures taken on August 18, when a group of us visited Mount Sheer.
The elevation of Railroad Pass is about 4500 feet in the mountains northwest of Pemberton. On May 11 four of us skied west up the gorge of Railroad Creek, across the lake at its headwaters and set up camp at 5500' in the valley below Locomotive Mountain. To ski Locomotive we skinned up the valley to the left of the mountain, and approached the peak by a steep narrow ramp from the south. Klaus Haring was the first on top. Although it was nippy at 7800', the seed potato farms were enjoying a warm spring day on the floor of the Lillooet Valley (about 900'). Milton McCrystal and Julian Lash arrive at the summit. My fingers are becoming numb, but Julian looks like he is at the beach. And Klaus took a snap of the three of us, and then I included him. We left the top at 6:15 pm. The trip down was a hour of truly memorable skiing. This morning picture of Milt shows the hills to the north. The slope behind my head avalanched almost constantly, and noisily, with morning sunlight. From the ridge to the southeast of our campsite we saw a beautiful mountain. This is the Tenquille/Goat massif, and Goat, on the right, is 8100'. I read that this is a recommended destination, so we plan to go there. Let me know if you are interested in joining us.
Here (as requested) are a couple of topo maps of Hollyburn Ridge
that have been modified to show a GPS ski track up the Hiker's Route
and down the commercial cross-country ski area.
Since this area is serviced by a ploughed road and is just up the hill from the ferry berths, when I cannot travel to the interior to ski I head up to the top of Hollyburn. The section above the Water Boards is lovely. The first ski there this season was on December 8th and we were pleasantly surprised by lots of new snow.
TAABC Workshop 2001 February 16
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The participants in this event are members of the
Themed Attraction Association of British Columbia. To find out more about this organization, and to review a web page on each of its members, click on this link to TAABC. |
The committee responsible for organizing this event:
Jennifer Webb, co-chair David James, co-chair Ian C. McLennan Pauline Thompson David Jensen |
The horrific stories about the avalanche danger this year, and the generally poor snow conditions, meant that we were slow to begin the ski season. Neil Cole (with his digital camera) and Robert Ballantyne skied the meadows above Red Heather Hut in Garibaldi Park on 2001 January 10. A foot of fresh powder had fallen the night before and the air was just cold enough to keep it fluffy. It doesn't get any better. Wish you were there!
At the parking lot there was only a couple of inches of new snow, so parking was easy, and we could ski up the trail right from the car. Even with a school group camping near Red Heather, there was hardly anyone on the hills. You probably know this route through the meadows. Because of the avy danger we didn't ski the bowls beyond this view of Atwell Peak. Here is where we skied our first pitch. The peaks across the valley are called the Tantalus; can you see why? Look, he is not falling. Even the views of Squamish and Howe Sound were worth stopping on the ski out.
For four years Milton McCrystal and Robert Ballantyne have been hiking around Mount Callaghan trying to make the top. We did on 2000 October 5
The International Planetarium Society held its conference at the Planétarium de Montréal from July 9 to 13, 2000. Robert Ballantyne began his 20-year planetarium career as a charter member of the stable of lecturers at that planetarium, back in 1966. He attended the conference and took a few snapshots. If you have pictures taken at the conference, and posted at your website, we would be pleased to provide a link to your page. Please send an email to robert@ballantyne.com.
Both young members of the Ballantyne family attended Bowen Island's junior high:
Island Pacific School.
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