Do you want a fun album, with fun songs, and have a good toe tapping time? Check out Blaas of Glory’s new album “Highway to Hell”. Blaas of Glory is a Netherlands heavy metal marching band that “re-imagines” hair band rock ‘n roll classics from Van […]
The Snoqualmie Pass Nordic Center and surrounding ski area officially frowns on people sledding or inner tubing anywhere except at the sanctioned sledding & tow rope area, so be ready for (friendly) ski patrol folks asking you to move on if you’re anywhere around the parking lots or trails. […]
We left the gifts of Christmas and went out to the gifts of great cross-country skiing around the small town of Plain, located in the Cascade Mountains north of Leavenworth. The Connor Chalet provided a nice warm cabin to relax in after each brisk day skiing the trails by the […]
Chiwawa Sno-Park can be found in Lake Wenatchee State Park off of Chiwawa Loop Road between Plain and the lake area of the park. There are several groomed cross-country skiing loop trails on both sides of the road, with the most scenic of the bunch being the “See N Ski” […]
This derelict car was flattened by a rather large log in the timber country of Holberg Road between Port Hardy and the small town of Holberg, in northermost Vancouver Island. To make the point of being vigilant for logging trucks, animals, and aliens you may encounter on the road, […]
We enjoyed some fresh snow with an afternoon snowmobile ride from Easton Snowmobile Rentals, leaving the small town of Easton by going into the forest service roads and trails of Wenatchee National Forest along Kachess Lake. We headed up Silver Trail Lane and got accustomed to our snowmobiles by opening […]
Eli led an informal rocket stove design and construction workshop at his Ancient Earth School of Natural Building in Freeland. The rocket stove was designed to warm the plaster-coated earthbag construction studio on his property, and the stove was about half completed over the weekend.
The primary advantages of rocket stoves: […]