Posts Tagged ‘Andy’

On Monday I had the honor of performing the wedding ceremony for our friends Andy and Mica. The service was held on the beach near Blue Ridge, north of Golden Gardens. The small wedding party walked down the train tracks to a locked set of steps. Undeterred, the bride and groom (and [...]

The moment we got back from our Kokanee trip we dove into a hectic schedule for the month of May. I’m wrapping up my documentary film class with Andy for a “premier” on June 8th, trying to fit in as much helicopter flight time as possible and, the kicker, taking Snohomish County’s “Rigging For [...]

Five years ago, when we did our first hut trip to Fairy Meadows, we fell in love with the “hut trip” concept. We’ve since gone to several others, but have been trying each year to get a spot at the Kokanee Hut via the Alpine Club of Canada’s lottery system. We missed it [...]

Well, now I can officially say that flying in a helicopter is superior to jury duty. After missing my first opportunity to go on a training flight with the Snohomish County Helicopter Rescue Team because I was compelled to fulfill my civic duty, Andy and I drove up to Taylor’s Landing (the SC Sheriff’s [...]

After ushering in 2009 in a moldy, half-frozen yurt, we made plans to close out the year in comfort and style. Caribou Lodge had been good to us despite poor skiing conditions in March and it came through again for New Year 2010.

Andy has been diligently hunting for moderate alpine climbs that Anastasia would be willing to do — Spontaneity Arete just east of Washington Pass was the latest effort. Short approach, minimal scree and loose garbage, solid rock.

I was unusually luke-warm about this trip in the two weeks leading up to it. The plan was, like last year, to drive down to Mt. Adams on Friday, climb and ski the Southwest Chutes on Saturday, then drive to Hood and ski that on Sunday. With job dissatisfaction weighing my mood down, [...]

Better late than never.
After hearing tales of last year’s powdery slopes and moldy yurt walls, Anastasia and I couldn’t pass up the chance to join Andy, Mica, Kirsten, Nate, Todd and Murray (and Tundra, canine wunderkind) on a New Year’s return trip to the Qua Yurt, 20 logging road miles outside Ymir in southeast BC.

There are always other posts that I need to put up, other movies to finish, but the theme for today’s ski was painfully obvious.
In the midst of a snowless January with 60 degree temperatures at Rainier, Andy, Kirsten, AP and I celebrated the coming inauguration of soon-to-be President Barack Obama with a ski of the [...]