Hawaii - Part 1

Due to a recent knee injury and her lack of ACL, Heather had to sadly turn down the ski trip this year. As a consolation prize, she and Ash went to Hawaii! Heather will have to fill in the picture captions later. For now, enjoy the pictures.

Hawaii - Part 2

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Wells Gray Extravaganza

Well, ski season was coming to a close, but not until we had the opportunity to spend a week in the backcountry of Wells Gray Provincial Park. This was the 2nd Annual trip for Nick, Heather (not my Heather) and I and the inaugural trip for Linday, Jen, and Karl. Because my personal photographer was in Kauai for the week, a video of the trip will suffice. Thanks to Karl for putting the vid together and everyone else for the fantastic trip.

Stuck...

What promised to be an extended weekend of skiing turned into a disaster... The wives had a course in Kamloops, so the wives's club (Paddy and I) were pretty pumped for a weekend of skiing in the slackcountry off Sun Peaks resort. After an insanely long drive because of a detour to get around a mudslide outside Golden and the incessant EM RAP on the car stereo, we arrived in Sun Peaks. We were met by freezing levels that had risen to 2500 m followed by a wondering cooling trend that turned all the snow into a gigantic sheet of ice. SWEET! Good thing I had such a hardcore ski partner. Game face on.

Check out the solitude on the skin up the green run called 8 mile at Sun Peaks. This was the most dangerous uptrack we broke all winter. Resort = suck!

The ski patrol tried to mess with us, but Paddy took out the tooth and kicked some ass. Don't mess with the wives's club, we don't believe in boundaries.

You think it had been windy? So much for the pow...

After a sweet breakfast in Kamloops on Sunday morning, he headed for home. The road had other ideas... i.e. IT CLOSED! So Aric, Jen, Heather and I had to poach someones wireless internet in Revelstoke to find a room. I can say, this was a first.

After a huge mess of sorting out work schedules, shifts, and rooms, the ladies decided to relax and get their work out done for the day. We sat in the hot tub...

So, Monday rolls around and the road is finally opened. We couldn't believe the carnage through Rogers Pass; every possible slide path had run to valley bottom. You can see the train wreck in the photo below. These slides were insane!

More carnage. Check out the mature timber in the run out.

We were greeting with a little good luck and the mud slide outside Golden had stabilized and the road stayed open. I now have so many more reasons to hate slides. Makes for good stories though. Despite the ridiculousness of the weekend, it was pretty great to spend some quality car, green run, hot tub, beer, and hotel time with good friends.