Free Range Chicken Feast

After over 20 days out and getting back into civilization of the Nepali outback our Tamang porters were able to score some free range chicken. What a deal … Safeway was closed and the local farmer had some birds to spare. “No feed lots just free range,” he said. “No way can this be true?”

With no Kitchen Aid or Bosch appliances in sight. The porters were fortunately adept and attune to the ways of the Himalayan outback

and lit a fire boiled water and first de-feathered the birds before de-gutting and stewing.
By headlamp we chowed down our firs meat in days since our organic grown yak in Ghunza.
Namaste my friends.

Avalanche Warning

Seems like people never learn. Winter mini rant ….. Its super cold for 2 weeks and guess what it doesn’t snow.

Even outside on my porch at sea level I can see the hoar crystals build day by day.

You know a warm front with lots of moisture is going to come eventually and override the frigid air … so it snows.

The snow lays on the hoar now an unstable surface layer just like ball bearings.

Then it waits for the trigger are you going to be the trigger?

Sometimes the trigger can be a sound, a yell or a scream even.

So can you imagine 8 snowmobiles in the rockies going into one of those big bowls with over 30cm overlaying ballbearings. Suicide man. Why are they there anyway? Whats the objective donuts or highmarking a slope, ….birdwatching?

Although this is in the Himalaya and its seracs falling and not fresh snow you get the idea. You can’t get out of the way when its couple of hundred thousand ton mass is moving a couple of hundred k’s an hour even if you are on a snowmobile…. if you are on the sides you might have a chance but really its best not to be there.

If you want to go this is what you do before…..these guys are ava techs at 2000 metres in Rogers Pass in the Canadian Rockies.

dig a pit, do shear tests, look at the crystals, note the weak layers then maybe go for it……..