Posts Tagged ‘AP’

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 [...]

It has been a fairly dismal snow year here in the Pacific Northwest. Our passes to the Snoqualmie resorts lie crisp and fresh, untouched, in our helmets. Amid the organized chaos of involvement with 3 or 4 Search And Rescue teams between the two of us, we’ve had precious little time to use [...]

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.

We took Jessica out for her third backcountry weekend in a row, aiming for the trifecta of difficult skiing conditions. We were lucky to find 15″ of new snow that had been subject to 2 or 3 days of above freezing temperatures and several inches of rain. Had to be some of the [...]

This was a Cascade Backcountry tour, and a beacon/travel education day for a couple of friends who are new to touring.
The very ambitious (and never really serious) plan was to head out the XC trails from Hyak and scoot out to Twin Lakes, then up to ski the east slopes of Silver. Coverage along [...]

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, [...]

Ok.  I am sitting here at LAX for the next couple of hours, sitting in between a group of random older people as they talk back and forth through me.  I could move, but I have so much stuff laid out over my lap that I just don’t want to, so I guess I get [...]

It has been a busy couple of days.  Yesterday we took the non-tourist jeep tour of Moorea, filled with activities that no tour company in their right mind would ever offer (though it would be great at raising awareness of the things local people have to deal with just a few meters inland from those [...]

Well, the rain stayed out at sea and several of us went out to dinner at a fabulous French restaurant.  I wasn’t in the mood to go – as per usual, my hermitlike tendencies were starting to come out and I wanted to just hole up in the bungalow, but I’m really glad I went.