Mike Pearson's Adventures on a Pale Blue Dot

Working excavators from the Sea to Sky highway job...to Gambier Island directly across Howe Sound. The images have been reduced in size and quality for easier uploading. Traxxon built hoe-drill at Segment Two or Three Cut 9...loading out of the Wall 76 area...and working above on the new road Very top of Cut 9...that angle that the right hand hoe is on...is for real... Returning from a photo shoot with a couple of lucky engineers that got to come along for the ride Cut 4 at Segment One Loading out of Cut 7 at Segment One Random shot of a "field logger"  taken this spring ...fairly close to Keremeos Placing blast mats beside the highway at Cut 10 Loading out of the north side of Cut 4 Early days of Cut 5 Rock bolting at Cut 10 on a winter day Loading out of Cut 7...looking towards Cut 8 Cut 9 was a very, very big site...hairy as all get out Digging out the soft spot that just wouldn't quit going down Loading ou...

These are photos from jobs of the last several years on the West coast of BC, Canada.  Mostly in rocky and steep conditions...some of the areas where so high and steep that the average operator wouldn't go in. Other places were perched out over the ocean...slide off the path and go directly to the bottom of the sea.  The images have been reduced in size and quality for easier uploading. 1250 Komatsu toying with blast mats...Sea to Sky highway job, segment 1 Cut 14, Sea to Sky highway, placing blast mats on a pioneering round The hoe stays in place during the blast to control the blast mats...there are fiber-optic lines close by Large hoe on a small ledge above the Squamish highway 450 Deere at night, dealing with a chunk of over-size in the highway...a full closure was in place...no penalty...no yelling Busy times at Cut 9 in segment1 of the Sea to Sky job...Ranger 800 rock drill, Traxxon built hoe-drill...load out hoe and pioneering hoe in th...