nels and i went owmoboarding wednesday after work. we hit the trail around 5:30 pm and made it to the snowboard spot around 6:10. it was a little tricky getting there but we did pretty well. it's about 5 miles from where we parked the truck to where we went snowboarding. the previous night about 7 inches of new snow had fallen. it's friggin' may and we're still getting snow out here! they stopped grooming the snowmobile trails about a month ago, so the road was pretty bumpy/whoopty.
so with two dudes and one sled you've got 2 options as to how you ride the snow machine:
1) tandem: one person per side and you steer as a team (one person on throttle and the other on the brake). this kinda freaks me out with each new person that i tandem with, but by the end of the day you get a pretty comfortable with it. helmets are mandatory so you don't get clobbered in the skull with the other person's snowboard that is vertical on a backpack (see photo).
2) homo-biling (aka nuts to butts): sitting one behind another. this sucks when you've got 2 backpacks and snowboards. also, steering a snowmobile is 90% shifiting your weight which is pretty much impossible when riding like this. this is how we rode before we knew any better.
ok, so we got to the snowboard spot and the light was super flat and a storm was rolling in. we took a couple snowboard runs and dorked around on the sled. i managed to get the sled stuck a few times in the deep new snow. due to the crappy visibility and the storm we decided to head back early, just in case. it was a short trip but still pretty fun and we didn't see anybody else out there. it was snowing hard when we started back to the truck and it was raining back at the parking lot. got nachos in north bend. whoot.
more shredding tomorrow.
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