Michael died on July 25, 2026, mountain-biking one of his favourite trails in Squamish. He appears to have suffered a sudden, overwhelming aneurism or cardiac event. Found with both hands still on the handle bars, he didn’t see it coming. …
To my mom. Writing this chapter sitting beside her while she’s in the hospital with a broken leg. Chapter 1 In 1999 I managed to graduate university and after that a lot of things started happening quickly. Newly single, and …
The first draft, of the first chapter, of Mike’s planned memoir Read more »
The only constant in life is human fallability, so when we’re away from the social safety net, we need to know we can rely on each other.
From a Search and Rescue perspective none of the reasons for climbing a mountain makes a damn bit of difference when you’re rolling someone into a body bag and flying them off a mountain in a cargo net
Musing on managing a recent multi day search for a missing dog walker, and a lost person behaviour profile for Dog Walkers
Accidental trigger of a SPOT device, general discussion of devices limitations, and how to avoid them.
The #Snapchat search – a recent application of Social Media to #SAR
Emergency Management BC published the yearly summary statistics for emergency response in BC and like last year I did some analysis. We now have 20 years of statistics on SAR in BC! You may recall that last year there seemed …
A trope is a kind of conceptual shorthand often used in storytelling – but the harm the larger issue of backcountry safety.
