Hike: Maligne Canyon Ice Walk

Maligne Canyon is located near Jasper, Alberta and a fun place to explore all year round. In winter though it’s just a little more exciting. The Maligne river carved the canyon out of the limestone rock and karst formations can be seen all along the canyon. It’s in the Palliser Range. The Maligne Canyon ice …

Aurora Borealis

Got an alert last night at around 10:15 for another magnetic storm, so headed out north to outrun some cloud cover that was making it`s way south. Once there, a gorgeous clear sky and a faint green hue as always indicates a light show ahead. I like keeping my aurora pictures underexposed, because it`s a …

WordPress Google Cache poisoning

If you see garbage showing up in your sites google cache, you might want to have a look at your wp-includes/general-template.php file. Specifically the section that contains this line: if(!(strpos($sUserAgent, ‘google’) === false)) It should probably not be there, and will have been deposited there without your knowledge. Remove it and wait for your site …

Unusual Winter

Seems like everyone everywhere has been having a really unusual winter. It’s been really warm, and we’ve only had a cold snap of -30 degree weather in November and January. Lots of snow in the mountains though, but dry and mild in town. We were supposed to have a cold February, but definitely no sign …

Awesome Tree

Errr… I mean river. This was atually taken by Adriana Franco from a microlight flying over the Baja desert in California. [ More at National Geographic]