Started writing this shorly after president’s weekend, and never finished (blockquoted for no good reason):
Last weekend Erin and I went our second skiing adventure. First going to Mt Hood Ski Bowl, and then meeting bits of my family and friends at Anthony Lakes for 2 days. This trip was a ton of fun, and also my nephew got to go skiing for his first time. Check the Pictures page for photos.
About a month ago I went on a solo skibum adventure to Mt Hood (Ski Bowl and Cooper Spur), and one of my tire chains broke.
A few weeks ago I went skiing with a friend to Mt Bachelor and got a flat tire on our way back to town (his fault, but I’m not one to point fingers).
The next Friday, I went to Les Schwab and they set me up with a replacement tire and new set of chains for no cost.
Tuesday morning I found ants in my room in THREE places, this set me back about an hour.
Then yesterday I got a flat tire on my bicycle.
I’ve also been finding myself sleeping in and/or falling asleep in class lately.
And to top it all off, Erin and I both walked away from NRQ’s Pray for Snow Party with some free ski apparel last night again.
So blah.
Well, part of the weekend… Sunday I took off to go ski Mt Hood SkiBowl for the night. SkiBowl has the largest night skiing area in the country, and for $22 to ski from 3-10pm, you can not go wrong there. Snow was tracked up, but moguls were forming on some of the main runs, and there was plenty of fluff left in the trees. I skied until the top lift closed, and my legs were NOODLES.
Then I drove around the mountain to Cooper Spur where I slept in my truck. I woke up a few times during the night and didn’t notice much of any precipitation on the windows, until I woke up at 8:45am. My truck was burried in about 6″ of nice fluffy powder. I rushed to the ski area, got my ticket and skied every run about 3 times by 10. They have one double chair, and maybe 10 runs. I kept at it until 11, when the crowds made the lift line take as long as the lift ride. Great ski area for beginners, and I had fun for those 2 hours, but it wasn’t worth waiting in the lift lines, and the snow was starting to get sticky, so I decided to drive home early.
I stopped at Summit on my way down, but they only had one lift as well, and looked to have less terrain than Cooper Spur, and the snow was getting really wet by this point, so I just drove the rest of the way home.
Was a fun trip. I look forward to doing a similar adventure to Mt Ashland, Warner Canyon, and maybe Mt Shasta if I can talk my cousin into meeting me there. I count about 10 days on the snow so far this season, at 6 different ski areas, in 2 states… Not bad for the middle of January.
I’m one of the world’s crummiest bloggers. Anyhow, here’s my xmas post.
Went waterskiing on Dec 11th with Mike and Todd. Twas a bit chilly. Twas a sh*tload of fun!
I took a vacation of sorts from Dec 17-26th, visited my brother&fam, and worked full-time the rest of the break. After rolling out about 24 hours later than I was planning on, I got to Mt Hood Timberline at about 7pm and proceeded to ski until 10pm. Only the lowest portion of the mountain was open, and it was really cold/windy, but it was infinitely better than not skiing. I always get a kick out of being told “ok, this is your last run”, and then getting another or 2 more runs out of it and “closing down the mountain” so-to-speak.
Got to Boise at some ungodly time in the morning, brought all my stuff in and crashed. Sunday was my brother’s birthday, so he woke me up and he, Maddie, and I went skiing at Bogus for a few hours. I took Monday off, skied Tues, Weds (crazy hot out), and Thurs (crazy hot and raining cats– was soaked after 4 runs), before the ski hill ran out of snow and had to close down for the rest of my trip. Anyways I can not complain about getting 5 days of skiing in a week. 
I got my camera in the mail from Kristin around the 22nd. You ROCK cuzzin!
We celebrated Christmas on the 24th, because the girls had to go to their father’s for the 25th. Now for the l00t I guess… I got a hat, some baseball cards, and 2 shirts from my brother’s family, an extra 512MB RAM and a Vikings sweatshirt from my folks, a mint set of state quarters and a mega-opener (bottle/can/jar/whatever opener) from my other brother, a roll of duct tape from my dog in Minnesota, Ike, a Coke truck and a set of pliers/wire cutters from my sister-in-law’s parents.
We were going to go skiing on the 26th, but due to unseasonably warm weather, some resorts weren’t even open, and others had horrible conditions. I headed home in the afternoon, stopped at the video store and got 4 movies (buy-2-get-2-free), and was on my way.
note: This post was finally posted on Jan 8 2006. I’ve backdated it to fit more chronologically in the archives.
