The Drill Bits and Dynamite Collection ( So far )

There is more to write about this tale of rock dust and hydraulic oil, these are my memories of this part of life to date.
Featuring...Dozens of stories and thousands of photos of the Sea to Sky construction project

Part Fourteen is being modified at the moment



Getting started in the blasting biz
http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/10/on-becoming-doctor-of-dynamite-part-one.html

The blasting biz on the Sunshine Coast
http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/10/drill-bits-and-dynamite-part-two.html

I blew up an ocean reef
http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/11/how-i-blew-up-ocean-reef-and-never-went.html


From the Sunshine Coast to the Sea to Sky
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/10/drill-bits-and-dynamite-part-three.html

The early days of the Sea to Sky job
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/10/drill-bits-and-dynamite-part-four.html

Blasting beside the Upper Levels Highway
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/11/drill-bits-and-dynamite-part-five.html

Eagleridge Bluffs anti-highway/anti- Olympics protests
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/11/eagleridge-bluffs-protests.html

The start of Cut 10
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/11/drill-bits-and-dynamite-part-six-more.html

The start of Cut 9
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/11/drill-bits-and-dynamite-part-sevensea.html

Setting hydro poles on Cut 9 with a helicopter
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/07/helicopters-and-hydro-on-sea-to-sky-job.html

Blasting close to rich people with lawyers on speed dial
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/11/threatened-with-lawsuits-and-playing.html

Super Bowl Sunday rock slide
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/11/superbowl-sundayhelicopters-and.html

More from Cut 14
  http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/12/drill-bits-and-dynamite-part-sevenmore.html

A tree hits a car
http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/12/drill-bits-and-dynamite-part-nine.html

Photos of the machines at work on the Sea to Sky project
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/12/drill-bits-and-dynamite-part-ten.html

More photos of heavy machines at work
http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/07/photos-of-heavy-excavators-at-work.html


Aerial photos of the Sea to Sky project
  http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/12/drill-bits-and-dynamite-part-elevenmore.html

Walls and bridges
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/12/walls-and-bridges-on-sea-to-sky-project.html

A forest fire on the job
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/12/sea-to-sky-forest-fire.html

More Cut 9 photos
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/12/more-cut-9-photos.html

A blasting video
http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/12/sea-to-sky-blasting-video.html

Another Sea to Sky blasting video
http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/03/sea-to-sky-overture-blasting-video.html


Doodson's Corner in Segment Two
http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/01/drill-bits-and-dynamitepart-twelve.html

Larsen Creek bridge
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/01/drill-bits-and-dynamitepart.html

Cut Five
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/01/drill-bits-and-dynamitepart-fifteensea.html

Cut Seven and Eight
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/01/drill-bits-and-dynamitepart-sixteen-cut.html

A close call with a happy ending
  http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/02/drill-bits-and-dynamite-part-seventeen.html

The South Interchange
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/02/drill-bits-and-dynamitepart-eighteenthe.html

More South Interchange
http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/02/drill-bits-and-dynamitepart.html

More Cut Four and Five photos
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/02/drill-bits-and-dynamitepart-twentymore.html

More "Walls and Bridges"
http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/02/drill-bits-and-dynamitepart-twenty.html

Helicopter lifting a huge pole into place
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/02/drill-bits-and-dynamitepart-twenty-two.htmlc

Rock Scalers
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/03/drill-bits-and-dynamitepart-twenty.html

Blasting video
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/04/drill-bits-and-dynamitepart-twenty-four.html

Videos of the Sea to Sky construction process
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/07/videos-of-sea-to-sky-construction.html

Can you believe it?,,,still more South Interchange
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/08/drill-bits-and-dynamitepart-eighteen.html

PAG rock,,,and another rock slide ( awesome video )
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/07/pag-rock-and-porteau-cove-on-sea-to-sky.html

Dedicated to the mechanics on the job
http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/07/mechanics-specialdedicated-photos-from.html

Cranes and concrete pumper trucks
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/07/sea-to-sky-cranes-pumper-trucks-and.html

The Anti-Highway/ Anti-Olympics Protests at Eagleridge Bluffs
http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2011/11/eagleridge-bluffs-protests.html

The Sam Fitzpatrick story from the Province newspaper ( still unfolding at this moment...legally speaking )
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/05/from-province-papersam-fitzpatricks.html

My original story about Sam and Arlen Fitzpatrick as heroes
 http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/05/sam-and-arlen-as-heroesthe-original.html