More Adventures

Greetings Again Bloggies

A week ago today I had the chance to visit Nelson after that visit I had the choice to take a different route back to Nakusp. Rather then the default of heading up the Slocan valley I headed north north east. First to Kaslo intending to head back over the summit separating that town from New Denver. This remained my plan until it was brought to my attention that it would be cool to visit the Duncan Dam which I have not seen in years. Thats its own story. So the detour was made. The dam was there, my camera was believed to be absent at that moment.



Lardo River Lunch Stop

The original plan of heading back to Kaslo was abandoned with the thought that no time would be saved by going back the way we came which was a longer trip then I had thought it would be. The round about way was taken. High way 31 north was taken parallel to the Lardo river and after the river ended up along the side of trout lake.



Trout Lake where the Lardo River starts. 180 degrees from there and you are looking at the river


The other side of Bridge and the river


I discovered my camera some where after the half way point of this detour tucked away in a bag where I had stowed some food stuffs. The food brake was had on a pull over at the edge of the river next to an out crop that had some medium grained metamorphic rocks that resembled the geology near Gold Stream to the north of there. The plants also started to be mores similar but for different reasons.

The Old Trout Lake Gas Station

Sever animals were spotted on that trip, A few Mule deer, one of which was young buck with two prongs, a grouse hen and chick, the chick had learned to fly and was still fluffy. The mother was playing dumb. A bear was spotted as we left Trout Lake and headed towards the Galena bay ferry, I have a photo of where the bear was. It was a big fellow.



A different bridge for fun

The trip took longer then it suggested, but with the views being that good and my suspension and clearance not being very tough or very high respectively slow was good.

Adventures

Greetings Bloggies and a happy Canada day though a little late.

So I I had the chance to spend Canada day with some very nice people. Those nice people and their fabulous dog Boomer took me with them on a little mountain adventure. We took a road on to a large chunk of private nature with all the papers needed to say we were allowed in there. Thanks to the newness of jeep used in this adventure every ones bladder remained calm. The dog showed the most visible enjoyment of the trip. Sticking his head out the window for much of the drive






We passed more then one slide several areas where the shade and altitude had protected the snow. The slide had only recently been cleared from the road and in one spot had shot part way out of a stream gully. Several white tail and mule deer and one bear was spotted only the mule deer made it on to the camera. It is a testament to the company I was in that I had learned to tell the difference between white tail and mule deer, perhaps in the future I will tell the difference between them when they are in a pot too.







There are plenty of pretty mountain pictures I will through in a few for sport.

Family And more Family

This summer has been a family filled one.

Firstly My Aunt, my fathers sister made her first visit to Nakusp and I think it was her first one to Canada, then we had a collective birthday party for my father and nephew, who's birth days were 9 days a part and we spilt the difference by having the events on the 20th. The events are not remarkable and every thing went well. So here are a few images to highlight the events.

Goals

Greetings Bloggies.

A warm welcome from the air conditioned depths of the Castlegar public library. I never could understand why Library has that first R, I can't hear it. Any way. This is a bit of a afternoon quicky. I reviewed a post from the beginning of June in which I was nervous about the challenges facing me prior to my going to BCIT. I am still some what nervous about that project and the big challenges it will put on my plate. But I have been working hard for the last month, I have started to get back the habit of working. I now have, a complete funding application, which is waiting on the civil servant to review it. That was the first hurdle. It came together well, I was told that it was more solid then other applications of the same type that have passed through that office.

I have also solved a bigger challenge, I have gotten a room at BCIT residence. At this point I have a very good shot at getting the funding I need, I have the base of operations I need. The intangibles are also coming along. I have a growing handful of industry contacts with varying degrees of openness, including two open invites to pay the office a visit when I am in town. That number will grow much larger by the time I visit Vancouver in August.

I am chipping away at other things as well, though they are taking longer because they are tougher to learn. I have made some progress in learning HTML, Python and I have focused strongly on Java in the last two weeks. I got a lead on a book Thinking in Java, and Its my aim to work through this book, even if I can hardly do a chapter a day and gain some understanding of the theories governing object oriented programing. Hopefully this will translate well into other areas of computer science and push me forward in the program.


Yay Me.

The Visitor

He is back

I have spoken with his human, they know he pays us visits. He is prone to making him self at home.




Extra toes.




I am not a cat person
That cat does not live here. Or at least that is what I tell him.

A Ride

Greetings Bloggies.

There is no much to say here. Yesterday it was a warm sunny afternoon. I was in need of some exersise. I went for a bike ride and went farther then I have so far this year. I am slowly getting back some of the shape I lost after 2.5 years in a bush camp and not riding for nearly three years. At last my legs and lungs are the controling factor not my ass's tollerance of the bike's seat. I went 90% of the way into town by way of the rail road track and back the same way. It was a deceptive grade on the way down it took more effort then I would like addmt to come back the way I came. At least I skipped out of the worst climbing until last slog up into Crescent bay.
I also stopped a long the way and shot some kids, but it looks like my camra and I had a dissagreement and I shut it off before it wrote all the images to the card so no Goat images.



I thought about, I even walked down that way But I did not ride down that trial. It was at once steep, but not impossibly so, it was steep and loose. There was too much of the loose and coarse gravel that would have beaten me up and thrown me around like a thingy.

Cola

Greetings Bloggies.

A lunch time quicky.

I am not above a little junk food or soda pop from time to time. Last week when I thought I was going to have to go to Nelson for a favor I picked up a 6 pack of Coke because I like to have a drink of the stuff half way through the drive, it helps me keep alert. Getting it in advance would save me having to pay gas station prices. I did not go on that trip.

Now I wonder just how much coke does a person need. It was a six pack of 710ml bottles, or at total of 4.26 liters. The excess of soda that this represented did not show up fully till after I started drinking it out of a medium sized glass, I just kept refilling it.
I seem to recall 300 mil or so being the norm for individual servings. Is no wonder people are getting super sized.