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Skiing
Stories of ski trips, first tracks in powder, and ski bunnies.
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Last winter, I wrote an application which captures images from the web at set intervals. It's available on codeplex.com if you're interested. This has been running on my machine since December and I finally got around to making some videos out of them.
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You'd think that skiing regularly through Memorial Day and getting caught in a blizzard on skis one June 6 would have made it easier to wait for the next season to start up.
It didn't.
Here it is only mid-August and I'm already getting the itch again.
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The Mt. Baker ski area isn't actually on Mt. Baker itself. There's a road that continues a few miles past the ski area to take you to a nice viewing area of the mountain in the summer. I've never been all the way up there and was thinking about taking
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Bernard has asked Jay, Andy and I to sign waivers so he can sell some of the photographs from our ski trip. We're just that awesome. You can bet this is going to be used at some point when I'm trying to pick up a date.
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A guy on my team at work, MikeD, has been talking to me about backcountry skiing for the past year. He did it for a long time in Colorado before moving to the Seattle area. He finally convinced me to give it a try, so Friday morning we set out for Camp
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Alpental opened for another weekend! The skiing was not good, but I had to go up there and at least make a couple runs to say that I skied on Memorial Day weekend. The forecast was sketchy, but the day ended up being gorgeous. Once I saw how sloppy the
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This was a year for recalibrating my expectations. I explored new terrain that gave me a new definition of "experts only." The run that best showcases that is Paradise at Mad River Glen. To say it kicked my butt is an understatement. My trip down that
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