Big Travel Weekends

(My empty car basking in the sun along the North shoreline of Lake Tahoe.)

(The shaka even works with gloves on!)

The past two weekends have been nuts.  I've been putting in lots of hours at Next Adventure during the week and "working" hard on the weekends as well.  I drove overnight on Thur. the 5th after work to get down to Alpine Meadows for a half day of snowboarding in the deep powder.  They got something like 74 inches of snow over that week!  On Saturday I met up with Stephen Wright and a big crew of boaters from Reno to paddle the S. Fork of the Yuba, 49 to Bridgeport section.  It turned out to be an amazing 57 degree sunny day in Cali.  It was a great group, over 11 guys, and about 7.5 miles of quality class 4-5 whitewater.  After paddling I attended to the purpose of my big Cali drive and picked up 11 Fluid kayaks from a shop that had not paid for the boats in almost 2yrs.  It was a long trip home with the car loaded down!

(Ready to drop into some steep stuff on the fringes of the resorts boundaries.)

(Who knew that a Volvo wagon could hold 11 WW kayaks!  The cars computer did not like all that extra weight and air resistance.  I had the car set on cruise control at 55 all the way home, some 500+ miles!!!)

This past weekend I went on a work trip to Canoecopia in Madison, WI.  It is a "tradesumer" show that sets a good barometer for the year ahead in the paddlesports industry.  It was good to get to know my coworkers outside of the shop and Madison had some great food and beer!

Julie turned the big 29 on Monday the 9th.  She got to spent that weekend in Colorado skiing with some of her old HI friends.  The snow was good, but she ended up fighting a cold for the whole trip.  She is wrapping up work and HI fun and scheduled to be in PDX for a few days next week, and then a few weeks back in MD.  I also just bought my ticket to get back to MD on the 10th so that we can drive our stuff out to Oregon starting Monday April 13th.  I'm looking forward to time with Julie and the opportunity to build a life together in Oregon.  I'm also looking forward to catching up with Family and friends for a few days in MD around Easter.  

Gotta run, still working hard to find a place for Julie and I to live, as I need to move out of my current place by April 1st.

-A big thanks to Erin Higgins for the great snow photos.-