Trying: March 2006

Friday, March 31, 2006

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Thursday, March 30, 2006

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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

super blue sky

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

47.11 Snoqualmie Central (forgot my camera)

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Monday, March 27, 2006

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Sunday, March 26, 2006

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Saturday, March 25, 2006

46.2 Revelstoke Catskiing

It is raining in Revelstoke, so I’m hoping it’s dumping in the mountains, which are right next to me, but way up... You drive up a bit on dirt road switch backs, and you gain so much altitude it’s freaky. Then you park and switch to snow cats ( http://scrapofpaper.com/trying/uploaded_images/03.23.06b-778439.jpg) and do more switch backs until you get to the top of the mountain. Crazy stuff. Went all the way up this morning, looked at the snow, got back in the cat, Went lower, got out, took a 5 minute run, got back in the cat, went down further then took a long run back tot he lodge, had lunch, then went back to lodge. Not a great day, not worth the huge amount of money paid, but I did get a lot read, and some letters written.

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Friday, March 24, 2006

Revelstoke Bridge

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45.1 Revelstoke Cat skiing

Beat the wake up call, staring at the ceiling even though I slept well. Rode lots of steep and soft stuff. A couple of good hits, maybe a 10 foot hit, watched but backed out of a 20 foot hit... Tomorrow. Lots of "Eh?"

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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Same view spot two different ways.

Driving north, leaving the city it all falls away so quickly. In slight
hours the towers of downtown turn into the plains and mountains of British
Columbia. Snow on the side of the streets, hawks, ravens, eagles, tons of
birds.

With a Google version of the classic "Krusteez©" map I only seemed to lose
about an hour of time lost, heading towards osoyorus (which I thought was
cool since they make an oddly amazing Bordeaux blend there that is said to
rival Bordeaux) until I realized it was the wrong way, and I should be
heading towards Kamloops. Revelstoke was a welcome sight. My eyes were heavy
from focusing on driving.

I spent some of the time listening to Steinbeck's "Travels With Charley".
Steinbeck was so prescient, in 1962 he was already warning about our
wasteful culture, mass media, and homogenization of culture. He also makes
amazing comments about thinking while driving, and life in general. Plus he
has a poodle.

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