Sometimes I get water in my basement and I now own a crazy bleeding tree!
Parents were out for the holidays. Mom helped me cook dinner on xmas eve, we totally killed it. We did lots of family stuff in the week they were out here like eating and drinking, and we all attended the annual white elephant xmas party at zeke’s place.
I went running on xmas day to help work off some of the jolly roger’s and overheard the following cell phone conversation; ‘yeah, she said she’d give me a hand job, but she expected me to pay for it!’. RDRR. p.s. dude wasn’t too pretty.
I completed a Level I Avalanche class at Baker with some friends from the k2crew. One day of class work and two days in the field. Apparently statistics show that I am MORE likely to be caught in an avalanche now that I have taken this class. WTF? Gimmie my money back. One of the instructors didn’t seem to keen on snowboarding and was trying to tell us that ‘powder is a commodity’ and that after you hike for hours to get to the top of your line to remember to do those tight little squiggle turns so you save some pow for everybody and so you don’t ever have to cross somebody else’s track. BULLSHIT, I’M GONNA GO POW HOGGIN’ NOT POW FARMIN’. During our classroom day two dudes in our group managed to disturb operations at the bank that shared a wall with our classroom, WHOOOOOO WHOOOOOOO. Pretty rad. I also learned that heissman is afraid of bears. RIP frankle’s beacon. His beacon’s screen was stabbed with an avalanche probe during a mock rescue.
Went night shredding with bye-bye.
Started volunteering with a different organization that helps teach at-risk/underprivileged kids how to shred. The volunteers with this group drink more beer than the volunteers in the last group I worked with. I like the new group.
Rode Baker and Steven’s on new years weekend.
Some friends from the land of snow and purple rain were in town last week. We met up last Monday to ride at Snoqualmie after I promised them half-price tickets. We get to the ticket office and find out my coupon isn’t good until March. Oh yeah, it was cold and raining hard. Riding the park in the rain is one of my favorite types of shredding as long as you have dry clothes waiting in the car, no crowds, snow is soft, etc. I had a blast riding that night, did some jumping and jibbing and I hurt my face from laughing too much. I tried to make up for the fact that the MN friends paid full price to ride in the rain by buying them nachos, but I don’t think it worked. Never heard from ‘em the rest of the week. SAWEE DUDES.
Snow got pretty shitty at Snoqualmie this weekend so on Saturday I went on a snowshoe recon trip to find new zones and kicker spots. There was nearly a ½ inch thick ice layer in the backcountry. I think I found some stuff with potential.
Went snowshoeing again on Sunday.
Umm, ok, no more.
