Proof of my proof for my business cards.
The business cards should be here in about a week, coincidental to my last week of full-time wage work.
If I’m not careful, it could all become work, and that wouldn’t be fun at all.
One thing I find terribly fun is a fireworks display. For reasons [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2005
Proofs and Pioneer Day
Chasm of chills – Nahanni National Park
A dash through the first of three pools
Lafferty Creek meets the Nahanni in a broad and completely dry delta system. We hiked up the stream bed until we reached a narrow group of almost slot canyons with water so deep in places we couldn’t touch bottom. My camera didn’t go any further, but [...]
Brightening by the moment -Nahanni National Park
Downriver from painted face mountain camp
We woke to a fog that slowly lifted as our party fished, breakfasted and readied for a hike up canyon to look at fossils in the rocks.
The fog and the angle of the sun combined to create a hundred moods in about 10 minutes. I’m sure I amused the [...]
A really big river – Nahanni National Park
Above the Gate of the Nahanni
If you can imagine the foreground right wall descending to river level, that’s where we camped our fourth night on the trip. It was Canada Day, July 1, so we celebrated with temporary maple leaf tattoos and a hike up to the overlook. Scramble was more like it, [...]
Sluice Box above Virginia Falls, Nahanni River
Sluice Box slo-mo
Above Virgina Falls, the Nahanni flows swiftly but without much whitewater until it widens out briefly, as if gathering forces for what’s ahead. Here is where the float planes touch down, and the gear is transferred via a 1.2 km portage down to the base of the falls. Within meters [...]