Really I should.
I have.
I'm leaving my job in four months.
I have senioritis.
But I do care......sigh.
I am an overacheiver. So I worry about trying to do well planning for a test that I'm not going to be around for (there is one sad thing about leaving my job, no more trips to England). And for some reason I keep worrying about my performance reviews, even though I'm not going to get a raise this year because I'll be gone. Then of course there is the house and the WAAAAAAY too big of a landscaping project I took on. And of course, since I didn't use seed free straw in my garden there is grass coming up EVERYWHERE! And then there is the trip planning.
Sigh...
And you know I don't even think I'm that anal of a trip planner. But we're keeping our house, which means renters, and powers of attorney and MAJOR budgeting. And to get a few more bucks towards our mortgage we're refinishing our basement room (add that to the to do list: Post pictures of basement room remodel). Bad bad bad major pain in the butt. Then of course there are the actual trip plans: plane tickets, visas and vaccinations. We're not even talking about where to go in each country. I like to keep it flexible, but man we really tied ourselves down with the house so there are a lot more loose ends to tie up. It's not like college where you just pick up and go. I don't think I should even be thinking that anymore...most of my life doesn't (and should not) even remotely resemble college. Like KU just beat UNLV and I only know because I was on the phone with my parents and my dad was watching the game. I am happy that KU made it past the 2nd round, and since I really screwed up and watched KU in Orange Bowl, I'm going to do the basketball team a favor and not watch any of the games.
It's interesting how different I seem from my college self. I'm pretty sure that I would not have envisioned alpine climbing, backcountry skiing or hiking being my hobbies back in Kansas. Speaking of which, skiing was the original purpose of my posting, but how I digress.
February brought lots and lots and lots of snow. So much that Snoqualmie & Stevens pass were closed for a week with lots of natural (as opposed to human triggered) avalanches on paths that hadn't gone for a couple of decades. We got some really good trips in before that. The pass being closed gave us time to work on the basement.
This picture of Preston kind of sums up February...
We got really spoiled, all through Christmas, January and February. Lots of crazy sick powder. We have also discovered that Preston is like a snow divining rod. He can always seem to find the good snow.
Deep seems like an inadequate adjective.
This is my one successful attempt at sports photography. It's hard to get everything to focus when people ski fast, it's overcast, snowing and the snow, sky and everything in between seems to be the same color and depth. Many props to "real" photographers!
More pictures from Kendall ridge
The crown of my whole season was the Slot and Crooked Couloir on Snoqualmie Mountain.
Alex, Preston, Chris and I headed up there with increasingly lowered expectations as the temperature went up and up. But oh, the north side, always holding a powdery treat (a thought reinforced later in the season on Mt. Catherine). 5300 ft of vert and three amazing runs. The next day, I bowed out with a cold, but the three of them were even badder-asses and skied the Paradise Glacier to add another 4500 to the weekend.
Preston and I had a chill day on Lichtenberg (another good discovery this season). It was the trip that made me realize how different things are from what I thought they would be just five years ago. I posted my first (hopefully not only) report on Turns All Year, a website of mostly Northwest skiers dedicated to year 'round skiing (yep it's possible here in the Northwest!).
http://www.turns-all-year.com/skiing_snowboarding/trip_reports/index.php?topic=9368.0
So that brings us to March. And it's still snowing. The house and garden beg to be taken care of but the mountains beckon. Hopefully it won't be June by the time I post more :).
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You guys are such bad-asses!
FYI, I think the intention of your quoted triple-Xs in the first paragraph might be misconstrued as it was by me already.
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