Sometimes you just have to jump in with both feet.

I'm constantly searching for stories to tell. Once I find them, my next task is to find the proper format in which to tell them. Up until now, it has always been through written expression or the occasional short film. Then I went to the site of the Wellington avalanche disaster in Washington State's Cascade Mountains.

This is a story that has already been told extremely well in writing by author Gary Kirst in The White Cascade. Now it needs to be told documentary-style, as well.

The weight of history is there at Wellington. You can feel it as you walk through the behemoth of a snow shed. The snow shed and the rail to trails hiking trail, the Iron Goat Trail, are all that remain of the once booming Great Northern Railway that ran through avalanche-prone Stevens Pass at the turn of the century.

Here's the thing. There is more than history at Wellington. Something else is going on there. I've always been pretty skeptical about ghosts. And yet....

If there is a place that ultimately topples me from that position, it will be Wellington.

We have a plan. We have a crew and a cast. We have dates set for filming. We have the equipment. I am becoming a documentary film maker.

Telling stories is what I do - in whatever format will best serve the story that I have to tell. Watch out world, here I come. I am, as I always have, meeting the challenge head-on.

Avalanche of Spirits: The Ghosts of Wellington is in pre-production and scheduled to be released on March, 1, 2010, the 100 year anniversary of the avalanche at Wellington.

To learn more about Avalanche of Spirits, please visit our website.