Crazy busy week. And now I'm out on the West Coast doing some interviews and what not... weeeeeeee.
Today I flew through Las Vegas. I'd never been there before and shouldn't have been as surprised as I was to see all the slot machines in the airport. I figured, why not and shelled out a WHOLE dollar for the experience and left with $1.25. That's 25% gain for all you mathematicians out there.
I'm a winner.
Hurray!
Happy Easter! Mine has gone pretty well with church, hanging out, and then dinner at Eric/Scott/Adams'. The weather is super springy today and it was a good day to relax.
Midway through our Spring Break trip, Kate, Dad, and I checked out the Utah Interconnect tour. There's a bunch of different resorts in the Salt Lake City area and this tour goes in and out of six of them via some backcountry skiing and traversing.
We started off in Deer Valley, skiied into Park City, then over into the Big Cottonwood Canyon area which is home to Solitude and Brighton resorts. The ski into BCC was a little sketchy with some exciting road skiing:
One narrow strip of ice next to ski destroying pavement? Sounds good.
We were rewarded with some cool lines at Solitude. I skied the center most line in this picture with some other people from our group. If you look close you'll see a cliff band about 2/3 of the way down. One dude in our group fell above this and managed to stop himself before the cliffs but gave himself quite a scare. We had a group of Germans who would joke about it for the rest of the day: "jou are bery luchy to zurvive!"
Then we rolled to some beautiful sidecountry by Brighton... does this look good or what? A 15 minute hike took us to fresh snow and big smiles. We skied just to the looker's right of the line of trees/forest.
Finally, we worked over to Alta and Snowbird in Little Cottonwood Canyon. A couple more runs and we were exhausted for a day... quality!
Team Youmans represent.
Last week I was out in Salt Lake City skiing with the family for Spring Break. I've had a really great ski season thus far and it was nice to just relax and chill with the family. I also had a chance to visit some friends from the summer and some of my old co-workers and I realized how much I liked Utah. Good times.
The skiing was sweet too! We didn't get much snow early in the week so we just skied around and had fun. I didn't take too many pictures, but here's a couple:
This was my favorite area of skiing all week; the Daly Chutes / Bowl area at Deer Valley. I skied five or six different lines off that face and enjoyed every last one of em. It's steep, fun, and not too long. Since most people at Deer Valley are more into groomers, this areas gets skied out late.
This is looking down into one of the chutes from the picture above. Mmmmmmm.
The last day we were there it started snowing like crazy. It was a sweet way to end the trip. We hustled out early and laid down fresh tracks all morning. Skiing powder is where it's at.
That's my Dad laying down new lines. We skied this tree shot three times before seeing another big group go in there. Heck ya!
We also took a day to ski the Interconnect Tour which is a guided trip which goes in-and-out of bounds across six different areas in a day... it was stellar and I've got more pictures of that I'll post later.
This post has neither ice nor snow in it. And for this reason, I am quite unhappy.
I left Troy on Sunday to go to a job interview in Rochester (went well). When I came back it was in the forties and getting ready to rain. The snow is disappearing like crazy (nearly all gone now) and I'm grumpy. I have decided to officially blame the people who were still in Troy and didn't believe in winter and Brittany whose snide snow remarks have had terrible consequences. It rained almost all day yesterday. Harumph. And now we're seeing avalanches on Mars. Seriously!? http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/03/03/mars.avalanche.ap/index.html. I left Troy for one day and now everything is going nuts.
In other news, I'm not often swayed by advertising and sad gimmicks, but several weeks ago I couldn't resist the attraction of the Labatt Blue Hockey helmet hat. It's fuzzy, warm and reminds me of beer and hockey. Hurray! I had to buy a 24 pack (which Jeff has mostly drank) to get the thing, but it was definitely worth it. I searched the internet for a pictures... but I can't find one anywhere... crazy. You'll just have to use your imagination.
