google mapMe and a friend went down to see the last night launch of Endeavour. We ended up watching from the bridge in the middle of the map shown in ...

Gore Tex Rain GearI've got a GoreTex based Mountain Hardware uninsulated shell type jacket that I've used for over three years now up in Alaska for ke...

Enjoy the buffet. The scope of that new job back on Akutan keeps growing. Essentially, we're now designing 4 miles of road up and over that saddle at ...

Nothing remarkalble, but I've used 3' stakes to roast brats on a campfire up on the North Slope, flagging to tie all sorts of things to all sorts of o...

When I get back to town, I'll post a couple of pictures that kinda show just how steep some of this job is. For now, let's just say that crampons were...

Mike Rowe's views on safety

They're incredibly comfortable once your feet get used to not having all the extra support of insoles and such. For what we were doing on this job the...