Skiing

Skiing up Short Swing with Greg

On March 28th, Greg and I went up after work to go on a "dusk patrol"  We are trying to get in good shape for a trip we have planned in May to ski Mt. Adams and Mt. Hood.

Here is Greg on the way up.

It was a very pretty day and no one else was around.

Greg on some surprisingly good snow.

Here is my attempt to make a movie out of some pictures.

I think this is my favorite picture of the evening.  The sun turned everything golden for a few minutes before it set behind the mountains.

Skiing up Red Pine with Greg

On the 26th of March, Greg and I went skiing up Red Pine.  Here is Greg in front of the frozen Red Pine Lake.

Here Greg is going around Red Pine Lake.

Greg skiing down the hill just above Red Pine Lake.  It is a really good slope to ski, but it takes quite a while to get to.

Here is Greg skiing some awesome snow for the end of March.

Greg again.  

Me in some pretty deep stuff.

Good thing I had goggles.

There is an awesome view of Little Cottonwood on the trail to Red Pine.

St. George

In March Lyndsay, Mace and I went to St. George to visit Lyndsay's family and to go climbing with John and Corianne.  John and I wanted to attempt to climb something we had climbed with Mark Christensen just before we left on our missions.  Kourtney and Luke were nice enough to let us stay at their beautiful house/hotel.

Mace thought it was pretty fun to kick Lyndsay while swinging.

Here are Lyndsay and Mace at the park with the Dixie sign. 

Here is John on the start of "Banana Dance" 5.11D, the climb we had come all the way to St. George for. 

John made it up the first 3 bolts and then gave me a chance. 

I was able to get the quickdraw in on the fourth, but wasn't able to clip the rope in.

After that, John flew up past where we had been stuck before, and finished it.  It was pretty cool to watch.

The climb was so steep that you couldn't clean it from the top.  I spent forever climbing from the bottom cleaning the route.  I cheated in every way possible to get up it.

The next day we went to Chuckawalla.  Here is Corianne.

And John.

Cardiff Peak

Greg and I went skiing this morning up Cardiff.  We got treated to a pretty cool view as the sun rose over the mountains.  Greg was nice enough to hold still as I tried a few different settings on the camera.

Going up the ridge towards Cardiff always makes you feel tough.

The snow was really great.  About 6" of powder on top of a sun crust.  It made for some fast skiing.

Here is a view of Alta on our second lap.

Greg took the camera for our second lap.

Pink Pine

On the 5th of February Mallary offered to watch Mace so Greg and I could go skiing.  Greg suggested that we go to Pink Pine, an area I had never been to.  It was a great place to go skiing.  It was the first time ever that I had done 3 laps.  Here are some pictures of Greg.