Thank you winter

Today we leave on a road trip to Santa Barbara...our spring break has finally begun! But we had to pay a little homage to the amazing winter we had, thank you 2011. Here is a montage of video from Trevor's backcountry ski and snowboard missions and a little of whoever else was lucky enough to get to tag along with him....including a little of me! Enjoy!

Trying something new

A new toy has emerged! I know Mom and Dad, I can see the two of you shaking your heads right now at your computer (along with Chelsea).

Well, if nothing else in life, I really like trying new pursuits. When tons of buddies who are skiers started saying how fun snowmobiles were, I listened. They were more than right. All any of my sled buddies can talk about is how fun dirtbikes are. Well, I listened!

I got a hitch for it that is essentially a bike rack on steriods. This way, I can haul the boats and the dirtbike together and can do river shuttles on my own now.

I had work down in Kemmerer, WY yesterday (3 hours from Jackson, hence the sun and lack of snow in the picture) and picked it up there from my buddy Matt who picked it up in SLC for me and was nice enough to meet me half way.

I have yet to name it, any ideas?

It keeps coming.....!

This epic winter will not end! Seems like a ton of people are bitching about it at this point and are "over" it. Why, when the conditions have been so insane? Our mountains got 3 feet this past week and we were on it all three days snowmobiling and skiing, as if it might be the last chance at deep powder until next December.

Above shot of Tim, barely visible charging on his Ski-doo.

Tim, scoring the white goods. Think that is his sled's right ski poking out!

The riding was so deep you would literally have to stop every few turns to wipe your goggles free of snow to see where the hell you were piloting.

Today ruled! Chels and I went up on Togwotee Pass to sled ski. I gave Chels rides to the top of Angle Mountain, dropped her off, then we both ripped turns back down to the bottom, her on skis, and me on the sled.

We scored unreal April pow! You can see the lodge on the bottom left of the above picture where we would ski and sled back down to.

Chels and the poor man's helicopter.

Pumped.

When work isn't too bad

Certainly one of the fringe benefits of traveling all over the state of Wyoming for work is getting to leave the snowy confines of Jackson (it literally does not stop snowing!). In many places in the state, spring has sprung. I was in Thermopolis a couple of days ago and was lucky enough to play golf in shorts!

And then came back to Jackson......

And had the deepest powder run of the year yesterday! Look for the video sometime next week.

Baseball is back

Well, looks like Trev has been converted! The other night for date night he set up a ballpark theme night for the Giants season opener game against the Dodgers...

The Giants played horribly and lost, but we still had fun!

Even some ballpark food to complete the atmosphere, yum! Looking forward to another long and hopefully awesome baseball season from the Giants again this year!

Living Vicariously

No, we are not in the Himmalaya. However, my good bud Ben Jones is.....! He sent me these shots a few days ago. Ben and his clients have started the long journey to Everest base camp.

Ben along with most of the others on Everest will be looking to summit sometime in May. Just the walk to base camp looks spectacular.

Shots like these make us want to hit the traveling circuit once again!

We are lucky enough here in Jackson to have the biggest, baddest mountains in the lower 48 states right out our back door, but wow, from the looks of it, the Tetons are mere foothills compared to these monsters!

The huge, aesthetic looking mountain in the shot above is Ama Dablam, one of only 14 peaks in the world above 8,000meters!

This is the town of Khumjung.

Awesome!

That's a Wrap

Closing weekend at the Village came so soon!

Here we are on Saturday, rain and all...needless to say the skiing was not too stellar.

Yesterday, last day of the season, the one-piece made it's annual appearance...lucky for us, we got to take a few laps with our German friends, Andrea, Francesca and Manfred.

Chad and Ted hugging it out.

Go neon!

Exploring a cave on the hill.

Trev looking scarily like this could be his normal attire.

Caves are cool.

That's it, that's all. Another great season at Jackson in the books....until next year!