Mike Pearson's Adventures on a Pale Blue Dot

This is during the Sea to Sky project. Several power poles in between Cut 4 and 5 needed to be replaced with taller poles. The new overland section of the highway in this area was getting built up by about 40 feet. The old poles would not have given enough clearance. This video and others has been hidden away on old mini-discs for all the years since this job. My writer/photographer/videographer friend managed to recover the files. There will be some new blasting videos coming shortly. Hydro truck setting up  on the lower side of the job. These are the poles that are right above the ferry terminal parking lot. The guys on this power-pole job were fantastic to work with. Friendly, outgoing and totally professional without the posturing that sometimes goes with big boy macho work. It's important to keep in mind the extreme danger involved in this type of work. A mechanical failure in the helicopter at the wrong time...is going to ruin the day for a lot of people. A broken lift...