Bedrock & Paradox

..home, and good to be back in the woods on skis this afternoon.  Training to resume in earnest tomorrow (in the gym :( ).   Visiting my parent always reminds me why I no longer live in Ohio.  The weather’s capacity to be consistently shitty this time of year astounds all over again.

“I only ate seven!” -Nate (nephew) “One for each of your years.” -Amy (cousin)

It has been a good year. New heights of fun and performance in the first seven months, a move, and the beginning of a new chapter in our life. A strong beginning, too. Lots of good friends and good fun. Even, especially, when the fun was “fun”. Maps show us where we’ve been. Topofusion and…

As part of our continuing public service/education work here at the ranch, we present Cooking for Engineers, one of the most interesting culinary websites I’ve come across. Lots of recipes, and good ones, but by far the best part is the clean and informative layout. The recipe flow-charts are the most logical way I’ve seen…

Spent the day on the sharp end, beating myself up squeezing every cent of a 20 dollar lift ticket at Snowbowl.  The big runs weren’t open, but plenty of powder was to be found.   My legs hurt.  HURT. Happy. Off to Ohio, back, ? Happy Holidays.

Lolo Pass is a wonderful place.  It’s the pass L&C used to git into Idaho, about an hour SW of here.  About 2k higher than town, and surrounded with not-to-big hills, logging roads, and patchworks of cuts regrowing.  A perfect variety of ski terrain, intensely concentrated.   Most relevantly, it’s a big fat snow trap,…

-30 with ‘chill; time to go for a (short) ride. Add.:  Back with all digits intact.  I’d need better stuff to make hands and feet sustainable long term, and was actually too hot in the core.  Wind briefs might be a good idea, too.  :(  Did 6 x 30 sec intervals, with a wicked headwind…

Leaving a friends house after midnight last night, M and I got to ride home through an inch of snow on the ground, and it still falling thick.  We woke up (not early, and little fuzzy) to six inches this morning.  Our truck’s hubs (the springs and bearings that enable the shift-on-the-fly 4×4, specifically) started…

Being done with this semester is, too. Bye bye.

It’s that time of year!  And what a year it has been.  I’m doing gear first, just like last year, because like last year picking the best days out is going to be much tougher.  I’m not limiting myself in number this year, just listing as many standouts as were worthy. I matured a lot…