Off to Euroland!

We leave in the morning for another epic winter trip to Europe to watch Marco race in World Cups in Garmisch, Germany and Chamonix, France!!! Yeehaw!

We are gone for 2 weeks, but in the meantime, you can keep updated on Marco's results on these sites...

Live Race Timing

Ski Racing results/articles

One benefit of an early load

...has to be sunrises like this! We caught this beauty over the weekend while working a ski race up at the Village.

WC skiing in Jackson?

The World Cup ski season is in full swing. We watched what is in our humble opinion the "coolest" downhill on the circuit, Wengen, Switzerland, last weekend at Rolfe's house with a few of the most dedicated Marco Rocks fanclub members!

Marco, on the big screen charging.

It might not have been live, we already knew the results, but it didn't matter, it was awesome watching Marco and all the rest of the guys throw down.

Marco, "paused" catching air. At this point, Marco was winning the race by .26 and we were pretty psyched.

Not all work

Chels and I spent the weekend working a ski race at the Village, but....., I did manage to sneak in a sled mission on Friday. Drew and I found the best conditions skiing and or sledding I have seen this whole winter. We were pleasantly surprised.

Drew, laying a fatty on a virgin slope.

Sun and fresh snow never gets old.

Wyoming Through a Ford Taurus Windshield

At least once a month I set off into the "Big Wonderful Wyoming" hinterlands to see kids for work. Luckily, I have a state issue Ford Taurus and satellite radio to keep things entertaining. The trips normally are a few days long and admittedly are better in the summer months as the roads are clear and I manage to sneak in rounds of golf after work. The trips take me to places in Wyoming that Jackson residents would normally not go to and scoff at. Wyoming has a ton of awesome places outside of Jackson!

Heading east, over Togwotee Pass early in the morning en route to Sheridan (9 hours from Jackson) with the snowplow trying in vein to move what is almost non existent snow banks.

The views were good out my office this morning!

Heading toward Thermopolis from Shoshoni. Big Horn River Canyon.

Interstate in WY? Yep, the nearest Interstate from Jackson might be three hours away, but I found I-90 between Buffalo and Sheridan.

Back through the canyon the next day heading home.

Always a welcomed sight......The Tetons on the drive back home after a white knuckle struggle in the Tauras.

"Black Betty" pulled into the empty (not open on the weekdays) MeadowLark Ski Area in the BigHorn Mountains, near the awesome town of Tensleep, WY.

Johnny Rips Lips

Holy shit!!! Scope this lake trout our buddy Johnny Ripley caught up on Jackson lake earlier this week! Well done Ripper! Rip threw it back after fighting it from the depths so it could be caught another day.

Why not

Last day of Katharine in town and we had planned on maybe skiing at the Village, but who wants to spend $80+ when the skiing isn't even that good? Not her. So moving on to Plan B...nordic skiing on Jackson Lake! Why not, huh?

Kat and Trev looking pretty excited about the wide open expanse in front of their skinny skis!

And look who it is....the only others we run across out there just happen to be Hager and Emily and her parents, entrenched in a riveting day of ice fishing...what are the odds. (Apparently, the odds of the fish biting where less that day than running into friends while doing something very random.)

Spotted. The perfect log for our lunch-time sit and ponder life session.

I think we may have pondered what was on our feet more than life.

Yay!

Someone had to bring the bright colors and you can never count on Katharine for that one.

We totally look like naturals, right? Alright, Kat's ski poles might be the dead giveaway that we don't do this activity that often.

Into the great wide open...