Posted at January 30, 2008 @ 6:35 pm by Malcolm in link, nature
This morning it was actually raining when I walked my two minutes to work…however, by mid-morning there were whiteout snow conditions and plummeting temperatures.
Now, this evening, numerous highways are closed around northern Ontario. This highway map from the Ministry of Transportation shows the closed roads with hashed bars. Cochrane is underneath that pile of bars in the upper-right!
Image from: Ontario MofT website
Posted at January 28, 2008 @ 8:24 am by Malcolm in friends, landscape, link, nature, photo
On Saturday, Gerald took Cam, Damian, Pat, Yves, and myself to Mount Kanasuta in Quebec to go skiing. We had a wonderful day together!
Perhaps this post’s title will cause less confusion than “Downhill Skiing” :-p
Posted at January 24, 2008 @ 8:28 am by Malcolm in college, friends, landscape, link, photo, technology
Here’s a short video I put together using footage from our snowmobiling last weekend:
This also marks my first upload to YouTube 
Posted at January 23, 2008 @ 6:27 pm by Malcolm in friends, photo
Here are some “portrait” photos from this past weekend
Photo by Ben L.
Posted at January 20, 2008 @ 9:51 pm by Malcolm in friends, landscape, nature, photo
Shortly after noon on Friday, Ben, Melissa, and Jacob arrived for the weekend. We had a great time together!
Friday afternoon, and Saturday, we went snowmobiling. Here are some photos from our adventures:
Ben and Cameron on Friday afternoon
Pat, Jed, Cam, and Ben
Ben, Cam, Pat, and Myself at our “campfire” partway through the day on Saturday. We toasted Hop ‘n Go bars, and heated water in a plastic bottle…in addition to
Ben launching skyward under an almost-full moon
You can get stuck even with an 800, especially if the drift is 4 or 5 feet deep!
Pretty frosty bunch, made up of Cam, Me, Ben, and Pat
(Photo by Gerald D.)
Yup, it was chilly that evening…at least -25C (-13F)
I’m thinking of posting some videos on YouTube later…for fun, as an experiment, to try it, ect.
Posted at January 12, 2008 @ 9:38 pm by Malcolm in link, technology
While looking for a Week # reference site this week, I found a graphical display of the day/night zones around the world. For example, here’s what it looks like around 9pm EST on Jan 12, 2008:
Image from timeanddate.com
Speaking of dates and times, hopefully less than a fortnight will pass before I post again!
Posted at January 2, 2008 @ 3:22 pm by Malcolm in landscape, nature, photo
While we were in Quebec, Cameron and I took the opportunity to do some downhill skiing. We skied once at Mont Tremblant, once at Mont Saint-Sauveur, and several times at Mont-Blanc. Snow conditions were superb, with Tremblant claiming the best opening season in something like 60 years!
Me at the summit of Mont-Tremblant (photo by Cameron D.)
Enjoying fresh powder at Mont-Blanc (photo by Cameron D.)
View from near the summit of Mont-Tremblant
Mont-Tremblant’s summit, literally in a cloud!
Cameron on Mont-Blanc at Sunset
Looking north toward Mont-Tremblant, from Mont-Blanc
Posted at January 1, 2008 @ 12:12 pm by Malcolm in landscape, nature, photo
Live from Cochrane, Ontario
View this morning from the front picture window. Although scale is hard to tell, we have ~3 feet of (un-drifted) snow! The pile is from the driveway being plowed.