Skiing the Zupjock-Lama-Alpaca Trio

Since I’d never gotten around to making it up to this peak before, I decided to subject my friends to this very wind-blown ridge on this rather windy day. We started a bit after 9:00, and skied up behind a pair of snowshoers. The snowshoers...

The North Ridge of Baker

A few weeks ago, me and 4 other guys from the BC Mountaineering Club headed up Mt. Baker to climb the North Ridge. Some hiker friends joined us for the day on Saturday for the hike up to base camp and we were able to persuade them to carry our …

Religion and Conversion in Islamic North and West Africa

Cultural Profile Islam Islam is probably the fastest growing religion in the world. Statistics vary widely but even a conservative estimate from the U.S. Center for World Mission [GP1997] places its growth rate at 2.9% from 1970 to 1996, just...

Digital Rights Management and Society

DRM technology and its respective laws are harmful to society in that they take advantage of honest and less savvy people and force them to relinquish control of their property to corporations.