Author Archives: mettechnerd

We’re in Hawaii for the next 10 days. The trip here is on my top five worst travel days ever list but waking up here made up for a lot. Clint got lei’d last night: This is Diamondhead from our balcony: The … Continue reading →

My apprenticeship is over! The last check in my book was completed Feb 6 and the board signed me off last week. At the annual station meeting I will be assigned my own stations to maintain over the 2012/2013 fiscal … Continue reading →

This is the one we can’t figure how he got that far in.

The plan: Drive to Red Earth, install new cell modem, drive to Whitecourt, sleep, fix wind sensor, drive to Edson, do semi-annual maintenance, drive home, victory! What actually happened: Winter noticed us for a minute so the drive to Red … Continue reading →

Me: dum-de-dum.. baking baking baking Gravity: aha! got some! Kody: Look at me sitting! I’m being good! Noble German Shepards deserve cookie dough! Me: where’d you come from? weren’t you upstairs? Sonic boom: bang Me: oh, ok, go ahead. Kody: … Continue reading →

The busy season this year seems to be stretching out. This week was supposed to be Monday to Friday based in Norman Wells with day trips by charter air to the surrounding settlements. Normally we would have done this in … Continue reading →

Thursday morning saw us finishing the last two stations in the park. (sniff) I thought nothing could compare with being paid to fly around Jasper in a helicopter. I don’t know if driving up a ski hill beats it, but … Continue reading →

was still foggy and rainy. We met the Park warden (or whatever his job title is now) at 8 and he asked us to delay until later. That was no problem. We still had the Jasper Warden site to do. … Continue reading →

Considering we were right near the Sunwapta falls when we finished the Sunwapta station we stopped in to have a look. Since we had falls on the brain and the Athabasca Falls were  on the way back to town (sorta) we … Continue reading →