In the Company of Moose is a documentary shot in Denali National Park over the course of one year. Biologist Vic VanBallenberghe has spent decades tracking and observing the animals, and his son tagged along to make this film.
via Up Northica
Edward Abbey’s 1975 Cadillac Eldorado is for sale on eBay. The old guy stuck with the classics, none of that SUV garbage for him. The car’s changed hands a few times, and it comes with the original title signed by Abbey and some old plates that say “Hayduke.” As bizarre a piece of literary history as this car is, at least the proceeds from the sale are going to Confluence: A Celebration of Reading and Writing in Moab.
via Cold Splinters
Here’s to weekend mayhem. Stay out of trouble. Plus I wanted to share this one…the part about the Black Diamond cubicle got a laugh out of me.
A swell kicked up in New Zealand and a pod of orcas moved in on the locals’ territory. They’re lucky no one smashed their headlights in.
The mammals cruised Sandy Bay until they found the section with the best waves, he said.
“They knew what they were doing and pulled out before getting into trouble. They looked like they’d done it before.”
Check out the local New Zealand paper, or Grind for more pictures.
via Explorations
Some lunatic in the Pacific Northwest is dying for his criminal genius to receive recognition. He claims to have shot a deer in Idaho, or at least that’s what he wrote to the Fish & Game crew last week:
“Here is a picture of the nice buck I poached in Northern Idaho this year. & I plan to do all my Idaho hunting like this from now on,” reads an anonymous letter received by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game last week.
The letter, accompanied by a picture of a 3×3 whitetail buck and a pronghorn antelope, gives no clues as to the poacher’s identity. The return address space read only “Poacher X” with no actual address, though the letter was postmarked from Everett, Washington.
I bet this guy went to Kinkos and printed a photo of a dead deer off the internet. Send me a bloody deer head and we’ll talk, “Poacher Lame.”
Sorry to break the bad news, but Smith Optics has their own private ski area - and they haven’t even invited you there even though you’ve been faithfully rocking their Over-The-Glasses goggles with the built-in fan for the several years. What does it take to get an invitation to this place? Us commoners will have to settle for watching their Prospecting Idaho webisodes - the equivalent of watching a webcam streaming a live party.
It’s an odd video. Did you know that a guy named Smith actually still owns Smith?
I wonder what they were saying to each other when this picture was taken. Maybe he was trying to get the pope to autograph his skis? Whatever words were exchanged, I think it’s okay to assume that the pope is sending a signal that skipping church on powder days is cool with the big guy (or gal).
According to Wend, celebrity politician Sarah Palin violates a useless Alaska law in her reality show’s first episode. Apparently the Alaskan authorities have bothered to put a law on the books that makes it illegal (or maybe just ‘against policy,’ it’s unclear) to fishing within 30 feet of a bear. Listen, coastal brown bears that feed on salmon can grow up to 1,500 pounds - a law banning fishing within 30 feet of them in unnecessary. Furthermore, to make fishing within 30 feet of these monsters illegal is a disservice to humanity. By preventing idiots from fishing too close to brown bears, the Alaskan authorities have succeeded only in dimming the gene pool.
The Provo Bros of Utah released the first of a 4-episode series called Desert Spines. Like all their stuff, fantastic shooting and clean edits. Check it out.
