There is no Cypress Mountain around here – there is Cypress Bowl, part of Cypress Provincial Park

The ski resort in Cypress Provincial Park has branded itself Cypress Mountain. The name refers to this commercial enterprise, not to any real hill — and yet you’ll hear people talk about Cypress Mountain as if it is a geological feature. Click the link below to find out more about this.

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Changes to the Salish Sea Theme

That is how the blog appeared until a couple of days ago. I hope you find what you see to be an improvement. The new theme is called K2 Lite, and the banner image at the top is brighter and shows more of the Salish Sea.

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ecto is now our blogging tool. It’s not perfect but it does the job

Since the original purpose of this blog was to investigate the world of blogging, I figure that there should be a post to announce that we have just purchased ecto. That’s the announcement. There are more thoughts, so I will ramble on in the next pane (click the Continue reading link for more on this subject.)

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More igloo plans

I did mention that folks want us to build an igloo? Is this work? Or fun? It must be fun because there was another igloo-building petition tonight. So, depending on the weather, it is likely that we will head up to the snow in Cypress Bowl sometime between Christmas and New Years.

What is the issue with the weather? Fresh snow, or wet snow, would be nice. Crunchy, icy, crusty snow is hard to manage.

All of this is to say that if you are interested in seeing how one of these igloos is built, or you’d like to participate, let me know.

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