Sorry for the lack of posts. I guess blogging is one of those things that if I don't have time do a full posting about everything that's happening, I feel like I should wait until the time becomes available. However, now that I'm a grown-up, I understand such time never makes itself available. So I'm going to suck it up, just post something sub-par, and try to get this thing going again.
So, to start it off how about some pictures.
Here's Nollie hiking for the first time wearing her backpack and snowbooties (not pictured). She was not happy for this picture. We had to abandon our group since Nollie wouldn't obey the nordic trail rule of walking on the outside of the ski tracks.
View of abandoned lift at Summit East (aka Hyak) sometime in late January. A week later more storms hit and snow piled up to a cone even higher, but I forgot to tell Nels to take a picture.
Sarah snowboarding at Hyak, kicking up some "tasty poo." If you're wondering what "tasty poo" is please contact Nels Reese.
There's water tower at Hyak that happens to be painted like a beer can. It actually used to be a can of Olympia, but then they repainted it to the Summit (ski area) name.
Every February they have the Holy Oly Revival snowboard contest. They hand carve a quarter pipe (on left) at the base of the Oly can water tower (on right). Some pros, locals, and others show up to ride: video and contest results (see also). Steve (though he did not attend this year) usually gets very excited as he points out pro snowboarders from the northwest we watched in videos in high school.
This method took home the best NW Method award.
This is Jeff Brushie. Jeff Brushie won the Jeff Brushie award.
Some guy on a snowskate gets about 5 feet above the lip. Considering the quarterpipe was reportedly 28 feet tall and that thing is not attached to his feet, it's pretty impressive.
We took our annual trip to Baker where we rent a cabin and cram a bunch of people into it until it costs $25 a night. Steve slashes some powder.
Jacob Bunge from the West Wash days of UW-Madison came out from Chicago. He was less successful at slashing powder but did manage to save the beers.
Nollie finds Jacob's fall hilarious.
Nels carves some tasty poo.
Since then many things happened but few pictures were taken. We bought an new computer as Sarah mentioned. However, I did not buy into a culture or join a cult. I do not have an iPod or any other iCrap. I just bought a computer.
We were rather unsuccessful at the Mt. Baker Easter Egg Hunt, but the snow was good so it didn't matter.
Some storms rolled in this week and dropped more snow in the mountains. Today was a fun powder day but was pretty busy for lift lines.
That's all for now.