warm globe syndrome

The temperature shot up to 18 degrees here yesterday. Shattering the previous high for April 08 by FIVE degrees. Some of you know that a major part of my job involves observing and reporting the weather, so maybe I'm a bit more sensitive to these things.
Although I feel I should tell Mr. Gore I find his truth convenient.(I can support anything that gets me fishing sooner).

I know, global warming blah blah blah...It's happening, but really has little to do with us idling our cars. The changes of a tenth of a degree in average temp over a decade? I'm here to tell you that human error in data collection accounts for that.
We want to be able to fix what's wrong, and barring that, stick our heads in the sand and ignore it or deny it. Dramatic weather change is the effect; what's the cause?

I suggest reading FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS by Graham Hancock.
Or GOOGLE THIS : Ancient Mayan Long Count Calendar -Dec 23 2012.

Sorry, about the serious note, I'll put my head back in the sand now!

warm globe syndrome

The temperature shot up to 18 degrees here yesterday.

woo hoo!

Plus 12 degrees outside! About 1 foot of slush on the road(fun four wheel drivin'). Spring is coming. Another nice day brought to you by the same good folks that brought you global warming. Oh yeah to answer your question sis, sometimes there is still a little snow in the bush at the end of May, and the temp still goes below zero at night and you can get the odd flurry. But it's still warm enough to camp. (never too cold to camp) The wife likes to go cook outside over a fire all year round. time to go to work and help keep track of just how warm our globe is getting.

Night shift again, can I swear here? no, okay. Well lot's of talk in blogville about the impending b-day of nephew Jason. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Second most popular subject? bgbs! Jay, I don't want to jump on any bandwagons here (not my style) but kids are great (must be, I keep havin' em). 26 years old. Wow. What? Oh yeah, the pics.

The little cabin is an emergency shelter, they have them about every 60 km along the highway. The territorial government maintains them. The other pic is the first sign of approaching spring, No crocuses or tulips here, that's the Liard river ferry getting ready to slide down into the river, which is still frozen. but ya gotta be ready.

Jason, you are absolutely invited to come up for fishing! Don't worry, skill not required up here. Come north and have an adventure to tell your kids about! oops, no pressure on the kid thing!

Road trip!

Well, a day off and -3.0 degrees! So we decided to take you all for a drive over to Sambaa Deh falls. It's on the Trout River about 150 km out from Simpson. Of course still got the crotch deep snow to deal with, but the view was worth it. In the summer there are always a bunch of bald eagles soaring on the thermals in the gorge. The fishing down below in the river is good in the spring but it's a bit of a hike. I was going to hike down today and try for some pics of the frozen falls from the front but the wife was nervous and the snow was deep. As it was, when I got near the edge of the gorge, I wasn't sure if there was actually ground underneath my feet or if it was just a shelf of snow. I guess it was about a hundred feet down right there where I was standing. We come over and camp here every May 28 long weekend for grayling fishing. People come from all over.

Even up north here it's getting hard to get away from it all. I went camping once with my Inuit friend Stan and after four days on the river by ourselves niether one talking much, just quiet and haven't seen a soul, we see a guy going on the other side of the river about a mile away; Stan looks at me and says very seriously " jeez, busy place" I laughed my ass off! a matter of perspective I guess!

Springtime? not quite yet.

I understand some of you out in blogland, or blogville are already enjoying spring time. As you can see, we still have a ways to go yet. I was at work but Melinda and Charlie Brown went out to play for awhile in the snow.

It was around -9 all day so pretty nice, but the wind'll still pink yer cheeks

Well, tomorrow will be one month smoke free. No pic but, ya gotta love this dial up. Yeah I'm cheap and got this all you can eat internet. We have been trying to post some video on the site.
Melinda started uploading a video of us in the boat in some rough water. The video is about a minute and a half 120mbs, no biggy right? right? yeah you'd think. 14 hours! I know! 14 hours to down load this video and yup, you guessed it, can't post it for some undefined reason. I say undefined bcuz that's the reason the computer says when we sign in. So we'll e-mail the vid to those that we have adresses for, if anyone wants to see it and we don't have yer e-dress ( I just invented that..e-dress, I like it!) Give us yer e-dress and we'll send it. By carrier pigeon or dial up whichever is faster...fly like the.....