Ever wonder how the forecasters at Avalanche Canada build their bulletins? I went and found out and you can read all about it in the latest issue of KMC.

Chatting with the CBC about losing my Dad to a skiing accident

Sometimes I can be clinical about mountain deaths. Sometimes they really affect me - even if I didn't know them. This one really affected me.

JP Auclair died this week.

He was skiing in South America and his death was only one of five people killed in avalanches this week.

Right now there’s rallies for democracy happening in Hong Kong. ISIS is butchering people. Putin is annexing Ukraine. Walruses have arrived in amazing numbers on a beach in Alaska because climate change has reached a point where there aren’t enough ice floes for them to rest on. There are really important, scary things happening all over the planet. Things that matter.

But JP died and that’s what’s stuck in my head.