Non-stop sledding

Friday's are my day during the week that are devoted entirely to snowmobiling. I am lucky enough to have Friday's off from work and a lot of my buddies who also have sleds have managed to make this their go to day to rip around too. Yesterday we went for a pretty wild ride up Willow Creek, near Hoback Junction. It involved non-stop bushwacking, creek crossings, a whole lot of digging, and a ton of fun. It's kind of weird, but I honestly get more excited to go snowmobiling now days than I do to go skiing. It has to be the most addictive activity I have ever tried to get better at!

This weekend we are keeping the snowmobile theme alive and well. Chels and I are going to head south down to Alpine, WY and snowmobile up the Greys River road about 15 miles into a Forest Service cabin that we have rented. Going to stay the night there and ski a bit from the cabin. Should be awesome. Have a look for those shots early next week.

Happy Valentines day

Sled mission gone badly

Pretty interesting shots from last Sunday from a ride up Palmer Creek, near Hoback Junction, Wyoming.

A guy who we were riding with went to help another friend who was stuck on a steep hill. While rallying up the hill he hit a tree going really fast and ended up destroying the right end of his sled. It ended up being about $2,500 worth of damage to his machine.

The shots are of the sled after we used what equipment we had with us to patch it up and limp it back to the truck/trailers.

Never a dull moment when snowmobiling.

Europe Recap Part 3 - Wengen, then.... Innsbruck

Town of Wengen, yea, it's that beautiful!

Erin Korte aka "Fizzy-Drifter" deep in thought with the Wengen tram overhead

The Rodel crew. On the way down to the town of Grindelwald (10 kilometer sled run!) These are some seriously fun, fast, and really cool sleds complete with metal edges. Look for upcoming video posts to show the art of rodeling further.

Porc and the Fiz sampling yet another brat meal gassing up for more rodeling.

Wengen train station bound for Innsbruck

Innsbruck train station.

We spent a few days chilling in Innsbruck. Was a really cool small city.

Had a great powder day at Axum Lizum Ski Area out of Innsbruck. This was the sight for the 1964 and 1976 Olympic skiing events.

Porc and Fiz

Urban Ski Chic Chelsea (our hotel was the blue building)

Content after a powder day and yes, walking through Innsbruck in ski boots!

Even more content watching live from Austria as Barack Obama was sworn in as the new President!! Yahoo......

Europe Part 2 - Marco Podiums!

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musical credit: Yes I Will by Michael Franti & Spearhead

Back in the saddle again

The crew took a good 50 plus mile snowmobile tour up on Togwotee Pass today. It hasn't really snowed in a couple of weeks now, so it's been easier to get motivated to go snowmobiling rather than skiing. Found some good leftover powder hanging around up near Brooks Lake.

Europe Recap Part 2

More pics from our time in Wengen, Switzerland...

Top of the Eiger

Cool views everywhere in Wengen

Skiing down next to the downhill course with the town of Wengen sitting below.

We were able to check out the start house with the credentials we got from Marco...lot of respect for these guys!

The Swiss Army preparing the Lauberhorn downhill.

I have to say, the Swiss fans are INTO it!

Our friendly "neighbor" fans fed us fondue and wine as we all waited for the race to start!


Swiss Army jets did a huge half hour air show before the race started...buzzing the course, the Eiger and the crowd. This was where we watched the race from, along with 20,000 other fans.

And Marco got 3rd!!!!!

Hard to see but these guys were carrying huge cow bells between their legs (if you click on the photo, you can see it better)...heading to the awards ceremony in the center of town.

At the awards ceremony watching Marco take steps on to the podium!

The Swiss were going crazy as a Swiss skier (Diede Defago) won the downhill, with Bode Miller in 2nd and of course, Marco in 3rd.

The gauntlet for the podium skiers to walk down en route to the stage. It was cool when Marco walked down as he managed to spot Chels amongst the thousands of wild fans and stopped to give her a big hug!

Chels, Porc, Marco, Erin, and Trev in celebration mode after Marco's 3rd place finish while watching the US Ski Team vs. Canadian Ski Team play each other in a game of hockey. (Marco had only one celebratory beer!)

Super Bowl Sunday Snowshoe

Beautiful day today in Jackson, so we decided to mix it up a little bit and actually not go skiing! I know, shocker. Instead we grabbed the snowshoes and hiked up Shadow Mountain which is across the valley from the Tetons and served us up some spectacular views.