San Fran Craziness

Just got home last night from a long, chaotic, fun, crazy 3-day weekend in San Francisco. I left after work on Friday and showed up to surprise my friend, Liz for her 29th birthday extravaganza weekend. There ended up being about 12 of us, give or take a few each day, and we definitely packed in as much as we could...roller-coasters at Great America, dressing up in costumes and walking the Bay to Breakers, yummy Indian food, trolley rides, shopping, Irish pubs and lot of laughter. Such a fun and exhausting weekend, I will put up more pics soon, but for now I am going to catch up on my sleep!

Nice work Chels

Chels has been working her butt off with freelance work of late, and on our drive home tonight from some friends house we saw her latest work in an almost billboard sized offering!

Chels did the logo for the Habitat for Humanity truck here in town and it looks pretty sweet. Nice work Chels.

Flaming Gorge Weekend

We had an awesome trip down to Flaming Gorge this weekend. After a week of rain in Jackson we decided to split and try someplace new, so Flaming Gorge, Utah it was. About a 4-hour drive from Jackson, we left after work on Friday and arrived at the campsite late, but we were in luck, they had just opened the campsite earlier that evening and we were the first and only ones camping there besides the host! We hiked and kayaked and camped under the full moon, all in all a great getaway weekend!

Cruising down to Flaming Gorge

Trev telling it like it is

A kind of eery pic I took with Trev and the full moon

Checking out Sheep Creek Canyon

Kayaking in Flaming Gorge Reservoir...the thing is huge and after a 4 hour kayak we hardly made a dent on the map!

Loving our little rock islands

Found some awesome little nooks and crannies to explore

Found some beaches...

And then we found this! It was amazing. These slot caves where you just held the walls and pushed yourself through to the other side...so magical.

Good times.

TGIF

Finally, Friday! The sun is making an appearance for the first time all week today. We are leaving right after Chels gets off work heading south down to Flaming Gorge Reservoir on the Wyoming/Utah border to camp and kayak for the weekend. Have a good day planned today with the only must do's including packing for the weekend and skiing fresh snow up on Teton Pass.

Yesterday, scooter accessed skiing at Snow King. While the lifts ceased spinning there in early April, the post season hiking scene there heats up until the last line is ski worthy. As you can see in the shots, it's still possible to link turns from top to bottom still, but getting harder.

River Time is Always on Time

The yearly river trip with my old buddies from working at Teton Valley Ranch Camp couldn't come soon enough! The past 3 years we have gone on the Smith River in Montana. Perhaps a blessing in disguise, this year we didn't draw a permit in the lottery for the Smith River, so, instead we are changes courses and going to spend 6 days floating the John Day River in central Oregon near Bend. Rumors of insane small mouth bass fishing, cool canyon country, and temps in the 90's has got the buzz going. It is in one months time, so stoked!

Thinking about Summer

May is historically the wettest month in Jackson every year and so far this has been the case. It's strange when you get accustomed to living in a place that is sunny so often, when it actually does turn nasty, gray, and rainy, while it is always welcomed, it's sometimes difficult to find things to do not involving playing outside.

Chels and I are heading south for the weekend down to the Utah/Wyoming border to kayak, camp, and chase after rumors of anticipated 70 degree sunny weather.

Some shots from a similar trip last summer to Green River Lakes in the Wind River Mountains outside of Pinedale, WY

Birthday treat

Chels royally spoiled me the whole week of my b day, so it was of no surprise that she treated me to an awesome night up at Spring Creek Lodge. They offer off season local specials every year around my b day and we seem to always go and soak up a very fancy 24 hours only a 5 minute drive from our place in town.