cyberhobo

The weather has been nice, nice enough to worry me a little about the snowpack. It offers good conditions for playing with the camera, though, so I try out lots of ideas on a backhill run from the Aspen Vista trailhead. The result is my favorite video effort so far! If fourteen minutes is too…

Ann scores a free lift ticket today, so I climb the ski basin while she practices her turns. It’s a clear, gorgeous day with just a little wind up high. I make two laps, and my fantasies of a third by moonlight dissolve when Ann and I collapse at the bar after the lifts close.…

The walk from Rancho Viejo to Second Street is pretty nice, especially at sunset. After dark a very cold wind picks up and gives me rubberface.

The Pajarito web site says the area has lots of new snow, but it’s closed. Since I don’t need lifts on the split board, I head up anyway. When I get there I see a lot search and rescue vehicles. Someone tells me a snowboarder has been lost since yesterday, and to keep my eye…

We had to break the rules to enjoy this nice little ski outside Salt Lake City. Little Cottonwood Canyon is mostly National Forest land, but in the winter the two campgrounds close and the ski areas take over. There is a parking lot at the White Pine trailhead. We get away with parking there overnight,…

We’ve sworn off lift tickets, and instead invested in alpine touring gear for Ann so she can accompany me when I go out on the split board. Yesterday we tried to find a practice hill in the foothills of the Owyhee mountains, but higher temperatures and winds had removed the snow already! So today we…

Downtown Boise has lovely trails that run along the Boise River. Even on a cold, icy day we see joggers, ducks, geese, wading fishermen, and a very busy little Downy Woodpecker. Also filed at EveryTrail.

Big fat flakes keep floating down and piling up. Santa Fe doesn’t frequently get inches of snow at once in town, and the roads can stay bad when it happens. Yesterday we stayed holed up in the house, but we can’t stay couped up today. Ann decides to venture to the office, and I’ve been…