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I ended up on Blogger reading Brad Marden's fishing blog [livingfisheries.blogspot.com] and realized that this one hasn't been updated in a while. I figured this out when reading Mansfield's last post and seeing details about NZ and then I looked at the year and damn, can you guys believe its 2009 and Obama is about to be inaugurated?

All's well here in BC. I just got back from a somewhat extreme snowshoe on Mt. Seymour with Susie Dain-Owens, my fellow Dartmouth alum in the city. It was extreme because it has warmed up to the high 40s and it is sunny up above the cloud cover, so the snow was super smooshy and the hike down turned into more of a slide, with some strategic tree avoidance... Lots of backcountry skiers were out, reminding me of why I'm putting in my time on the easier, lift-accessed slopes so I can someday be hip like them.

The photo up top is of Mt. Seymour back in October, after the first snow. Today it is covered with a bunch more, and on our descent we basically walked to the front of that rocky bit and dropped off the edge. That's what happens when you go for the "short cut."