2012 Update

Wow, it has been too long since I have been able to keep the chapters rolling, but I should be able to pick it back up where I left off. As of writing this, I can see that my blog design template has not aged well, and most current browsers make a mess of it. That will be one of the first items on my "to do" list.

For a little update, Mark is currently attending college, and I recently married the love of my life, Amanda. We all (Mark, Amanda, my dad David, and our friend Renee) did a little tour from Vancouver BC down to Lincoln City, Oregon last summer. That was great to get back on the road, but I didn't train AT ALL and ended up with a pretty inflamed knee that slowed us all way down (though everyone was secretly happy to take the pace down a few notches). Mark, Amanda and I have decided to begin preparations to climb Mt. Everest in a few years. We want to get in much better condition as well as gain experience climbing other mountains first, but we have officially begun training.  Yahoooooo!

UPDATE: Alright, I think I've got a good replacement skin for the blog.  It works quite a bit differently, but it should be a big improvement.  Also, note that you can change the style on the fly up in the navigation bar. :)  Give it a try!  If you want to just browse the various photos posted throughout the blog, try switching to "Snapshot" view.

Day 9 –Burwash Landing to Kloo Lake

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Whoever told us that it would be windy by Kluane Lake wasn’t kidding. In the morning as we packed our things, the wind wasn’t yet blowing with full force, but it was licking at the lake, upsetting its surface and sending small waves into the North-Western shore. It was cold too -- Cold enough that we were wearing our wool mittens.  We had pretty much blown our food budget on the $15 burgers the night before, and the store at Burwash Landing didn’t have much in the way of sustainable food, so we ate the last of what we had on hand, which wasn’t much at all. They warned us at the lodge that there weren't any grocery stores untill Haines Juction, but we knew to take that with a grain of salt. Destruction Bay was coming up, and roadhouses like that usually had the kind of food we needed. We made sure to grab a map from the pamphlet rack in the lobby since the GPS wasn’t being too much help, then we hit the road.

Down the road just a bit we saw a small round owl perched in one of the dead trees to our right. Apparently the dead woods were not void of all life. It was comforting to see, but perhaps it was a bad omen of what our day had in store…