Not much in the way of weather over the last few weeks. A few cool photos, though
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December 15, 2011Mid-November Powder
November 24, 2011Terrific storm cycle last weekend laid down about 3 feet of snow in as many days. Two days of powder turning was the payoff.
New Year’s Turns – 2011
January 5, 2011Deschutes Float – October 2010 – A Tale of Two Float Trips
October 28, 2010Jon, Sean and I linked up Friday morning 10/22 for a long-anticipated float trip on the D.
Forecast was for some serious weather rolling in over the weekend, but Friday and Saturday weather forecast made it look possibly worth our while.
The scenery, beers, and story-telling were outstanding!
We pulled into camp Friday night ready for a good feed, more stories, and completely naive to the Saturday that would befall us.
Jon and I had floated Whitehorse a year before under Jon’s flawless oar work… and we managed the crux of Whitehorse this time with no issues as well (Jon hit the seam perfectly)… until a rock (or devil spirit or poltergeist) snagged his left oar and literally snatched it out of his hand in the middle of Whitehorse. We quickly scrambled to get the spare oar into the lock, remained shaken but unscathed, but the lost oar was nowhere to be found.
That behind us – we simply pushed on and continued to fish the river.
Right before hitting camp for Saturday night I was at the oars. Had a small tongue of water grooved in… or so I thought… Unfortunately the currently carried me right of my intended line and into a rock that proved to be a worthy adversary for the raft fabric.
The raft lost the rock vs. boat battle – and I managed to fillet a MASSIVE hole just above the reinforcement in the raft that ended at the water line. We limped to our intended camp and I did my best to avoid losing my lunch as we still had 12 or so river miles to float before the takeout.
Sleep didn’t come easy for me that night as I was convinced I’d racked up charges (in terms of trip completion and participant safety) that I could not cover. Bad juju indeed.
In the end – Jon & Sean’s expert patching skills, luck, and some serious positive trip mojo allowed us to float the remainder of the river without incident.
Bottom line – 3 days with good friends, 2 semi-serious incidents, 1 trip completed, and decades of stories to tell!
February Scrounging
February 16, 2010Snow year thus far has been less than impressive. Still managed some decent turns with Sean and Shawn this past Saturday after a bit of new snow overnight Friday.
We got chased off toward the end of the morning by high elevation rain and milk-bottle fog during our egress, but we were cooked and ready to roll anyway.
Bluebird Day in the Canyon
December 1, 2009Sean, Shawn & I met up for a schuss on a simply outstanding sunny day. We didn’t have high hopes for conditions but were actually pleasantly surprised.
Turned into an epic day with lots of laps completed
Sno-vember Continues…
November 29, 2009Shawn and I met after an overnight dump of another foot of snow. The storms of November continue.
Wonder if we’ll get into a super-high-pressure month of December… have seen it happen before…
Oh well, just means high elevation targets come into view.
Mt Hood – November Powder
November 17, 2009Another big storm cycle late last week meant super-early openings for Mt Hood ski areas… and some epic backcountry conditions.
Halloween on the Deschutes River
November 11, 2009Spent Halloween weekend fishing the Deschutes River with Jon Carney. Objective of the weekend was to hook up with some Steelhead… caught a few trout but no Steelhead. No matter… beautiful weekend!
Mt Hood – Maintaining the “Streak”
October 29, 2009Skiied this past Saturday with Sean up to the top of the Palmer. This day enabled Sean to keep a 10-month skiing streak alive… Conditions were… challenging, but we were actually able to ski all of the way down to within about 600 feet above Timberline Lodge.
Unfortunately glaze ice conditions on “mature” snow meant skinning was out of the question. Ski crampons would have been handy.
There was a bit of new(er) snow in the lee of small ridges so we stuck to that stuff rather than the water ice on the rest of the Palmer…