HAAATTTTT

it's pretty hot here. way hot by seattle standards and surrounding areas have been hitting temps of 105++degreezz. i ain't complaining, it reminds me of home. so that means time for a retro shred post!

APRIL 10th to 12th:

Put some miles on my splitboard that weekend. skinned out to a yurt SW of rainier (south of ashford) on the mt. tahoma xc trail/hut system. trip was 5 dudes and a lady: fwankie, gretch, sweeney, zeke, heis-man, und me. most of us had splitboards but one dude had to use gaper skis. getting to the yurt was tough cuz our packs were heavy with booze and it's mostly uphill to get to the yurt. took about 4.5 hours to cover the 6 miles to get to the yurt and it took 1.5 hours to get back to the car. we killed 4 bottles of whiskey, 1 tequila, 8 bottles of wine, and some busch. i am slow and the other people were superhumans, before this trip i thought i was in ok shape. darn friends are too young or just too mega. daytimes were spent trying to shred on some melting snow in the clouds. actually we had on/off flurries for most of the weekend, but no accumulation worth noting. on the last night we made a fire using snowmans roadflare technique. it was wet on our way out, pouring cold rain wet. i am very slow at splitboarding. here are the pics.

muddy trailhead

i will be back

das yurt

mega cliff

MT GRIFFIN (went up and down that turkey a few times)

natures most perfect kiddie park!! this log was sessioned by gretch & heis-man. they kilt it!

gear upon gear. note cute gaper skis on left

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lunch time!

fk yeah!

MOMMAZ BOI!

i really look forward to checking out the other hut in this system. it's so fun to shred for a whole weekend and not see another soul. it was such a good time with some good friends. i just hope i'm better at scrabble by next winter...