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Cruising the Fabled Northwest Passage 5 Dec 2012 | 08:38 am
Exploring the Northwest Passage in the Franklin Expedition's wake aboard Russian ice-class cruiser MV Lyubov Orlova .
Haida Five-O 5 Dec 2012 | 06:08 am
Cold water surfing on this remote BC archipelago. Nominated for a Western Magazine Award and Alberta Magazine Award.
California Kick Start 5 Dec 2012 | 03:26 am
Motorcycle touring through California, rolling over the tire tracks of Hunter S. Thompson, Steve McQueen, and the guy from "My Name is Earl."
Why I Hunt 5 Dec 2012 | 01:41 am
An urbanite's journey to becoming a hunter.
A Cabin in the Woods 12 Apr 2011 | 06:00 am
A cabin in the woods, that’s the fantasy. A cousin of getting stranded on a desert island, I suppose. So my fantasy is sort of a mash-up: a cabin in the woods, on an island. The particular island that...
Video Diaries – radX.ca/masaoffgrid 2 Apr 2011 | 08:03 am
Okay, so the blogging dropped off after I began building in earnest. But the video diaries that I’m submitting to my broadcast partner, radX, have continued, Monday and Thursday of every week. Please ...
Day 11 31 Mar 2011 | 07:52 am
Yesterday, I had my first shower in ten days. It felt like the warmth of a thousand sunny afternoons seeping into my bones. Though I’d generally been lucky with the weather, it had still ranged from ...
Day 8 29 Mar 2011 | 11:02 am
I thought that I’d put up the last three poles yesterday. Not only had I escaped any dreaded back-tweaking, I’d also managed to not delimb myself while delimbing some of the surrounding trees with the...
Day 6 27 Mar 2011 | 09:49 am
In this day and age, there’s more to homesteading than simply knocking up a cabin and kicking back with a moonshine martini. There’s connectivity to consider. Yes, an Internet connection is as import...
Day 4 25 Mar 2011 | 09:29 am
A proud day, I’ve erected my first two poles. I’m building pole construction vs. regular framing. All the foundations and structural supports for the cabin – floor to roof – rest on 9 to 12 vertical...