Finally

It was a nice day today and I was fianlly able to click the odometer over...

Happy Holidays

I guess its officially official that its the holidays Salt Lake City has been so kind to stop charging at their meters and it is snowing... so yeah here's to winter...

Moby Dick...

"Call me Ishemael. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, (*violent feelings and displays of irritation or anger...) and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos (* "the blues") get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking peoples's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me. "

- The first paragraph of Moby Dick by Herman Melville with subscripts by Hershel Parker and Harrison Hayford "A norton critical edition, second edition" 2001 (so I never paid attention to citing your references in school but I think I gave enough credit to the right people?)

Hmmm

I just ran into this at the trax stop at the baseball stadium... I think it fits for life lessons as well...

Something worth blogging about...

So yay, this was incredible... except the fact that its incredibly cold and as I watched the sky transform into this I think I went into mild hypothermia...

Test

I have joined the world of droid... so that means if this works I could start picture blogging regularly...

time really does fly...

I really don't like how blogger makes you upload pictures so thats my excuse why I haven't been doing well keeping things updated... again my facebook has more pictures and my twitter lets you all know I'm still alive...


I tripped into the Arctic... I was back at the same point 1 year and 1 week later...


it was raining really hard and my lens was covered so thats why it's fuzzy...


I thought this was a cool picture, I don't know the details behind it or if there are any...


the ONLY frog species in Denali and I saw one... it was really cool! they basically freeze through the winter...


this is like ICONIC and next to impossible to ever see unless you're cool like me...

facebook photos

so blogger put the pictures in the opposite order I thought but I am to tired to care so this is what you got if you want it to make more sense look at the last one first... these are pictures uploaded from my phone to facebook... so this isn't a real post that is anything new if your on facebook but for everyone else it is new... whatever good night


over 3 days spending about a total of 10ish hours my coworker and I did a puzzle for fun to pass the time after work...


self portrait number 2... safety first...


"funner" hands on training... :)


prior week with 30+ hours of classroom training... yippy...


me chillin a top of a ridge line called primrose... the last set of photos where (the sheep and cat) were taken here


this was taken yesterday at 11:30pm looking in the southern direction of the sky... it was supposed to be a nice little photo to open up this post but instead it is the last photo...

pictures

well I guess this is picture day... if this works of course...

1. I'm in central BC and yes they sell gas in pennies per liter... the road was the 37 North 450 miles due north and it wasn't anything special other then it was a different way then I went last year... a google map show the area if it uploads...

2. This is one of my favorite pictures so far... this is how your greeted when driving into Alaska...

3. I didn't get to see this last year... a lot happens in a month I guess...

4. One of the many epic views that can be seen in any direction you look...

5. The best view of Mt. McKinley so far... it's hard to get it not in clouds

6. This is a Dal (?) Sheep

7. A lynx

the last 3 were a quick hike I took (I took over 200 pictures alone but only grabbed 3...

anyway thats it for now...

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Canyon Evans
www.canyonevans.blogspot.com

Bring on the rain...

I basically left Saturday morning last week and drove the 3000 miles in just over 4 days... getting to Denali Wednesday night... worked two days getting into the routine of the summer and now I'm going into the park and camping in the backcountry tonight and tomorrow... then I'm off to training all next week and from there I'll know what exactly is going on...

I don't have any pictures on my computer yet. (I've been sending some to my Facebook through my phone...) but that doesn't help those of you that aren't on Facebook... I was basically rained on the entire time (off and on so not literally the entire time...) but now I'm not afraid of rain and think that living in the north west is very possible...

Till next week when I have better internet...

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Canyon Evans

NORTH to Alaska

so if my paper work goes through I'm on my way back to Alaska again this summer... (In a few weeks... YIKES)  I will be doing back country research on invasive weeds for Denali National Park. My last day of work in Utah is May 7th and I have to be at the park on the 26th so that doesn't give me much time to prepare.  I can't even make up my mind which bike to bring, they both need the same amount of general maintenance.  In the end I guess to be safe I will end up taking the one I rode last year cause I know it will make it.  But this one my newer (it's older and used) dirt bike is SO much fun... AHHHH  

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Canyon Evans

really? no way...

so all those who are interested and have heard me talk about my brothers this is a rare picture taken over the weekend... all five of us together in the same location no digital editing required...

the order and number is as follows from right to left...

Jackson (4), Sky (2), Canyon (5), Sage (1), Jordan (3)... so yeah 

 

SNOW...

I don't like you, go away...

you're 3 months late BTW...
--
Canyon Evans
www.canyonevans.blogspot.com

ice storms... (and KAOS)

first off christmas or april fools???


so I'm kinda scared of ice, considering I ride a motorcycle I think that is understandable... well I've always wondered what happens in an ice storm and how everything survives... (society and traffic mostly) well today I had a SMALL piece of what probably happens... The U is on the side of the foothills and the hospital is literally in some cases built into the side of the mountain. SO my route (I drive a bus for the campus) goes right along parts of this area... the lower part of campus wasn't bad but the higher part was insane. Pre morning rush hour was causing huge problems and making things miserable and chaotic... part of the route basically turns into a parking lot (literally, cars parking of both sides of the road). with all the traffic and the right conditions the snow/slush turned to ice... and then I came along... someone rear ended someone a couple hundred feet in front of me and so I started to stop (I was already barely crawling) and all I did was start to slide in the direction of the elevation drop which was into the parked cars. Somehow (by skill or luck) I stopped short of making a bad day miserable...



so I am stuck on a sheet of ice and cant move or else I will be screwed... so I wait for my supervisor to get me out of the mess... :) so can things get any worse? why do you even have to questions... about 10 mins later things are stepped up to the next level...



yup thats right a garbage truck meets the same fate as me only now all traffic is completely blocked off... did I mention it was morning rush hour? (well just before) so amazingly he didn't hit anything either and so we're stuck. a few more minutes pass and as cars get the picture they are turning around in a very organized fashion (surprising considering Utah drivers...) and finally who shows up but the snow plows (two to be exact...) well throw a bunch of salt into the picture and now in a matter of minutes my supervisor effortlessly drives my bus out of the mess and all is but a memory... but I had a small taste of an ice storm and I didn't like it very much... so note to self ice and weight don't matter...

anyway I ended the day with a smile cause this made me laugh...

an update of sorts

hopefully this years journey/path is about to be revealed...

--
Canyon

the holidays and a challenge...

so I went back east over the holidays since I didn't have to work.  I didn't pack my battery charger so I took almost no pictures... but this was the one picture that I desperately wanted so yeah I'll tell you it's in Chicago but thats it... see if you can figure it out... hmmm if you need a clue I'll try and think one up... i took it at 5:45 am and it was freezing cold so I didn't mess with the settings much oh yeah and if your on Facebook NO CHEATING and if you must know don't say anything... I guess that doesn't really matter since I have complete control over the comments... anyway...