the daily dub

The verdict is in: Bryan and I will be repeating the last, ill-fated trip to Carson Pass.

The load is significantly lighter – no camera, no snow pickets, no tripod, no tent.

The goals are significantly more abitious: make it more than 1 mile in (damn weather), peak-bag 3 10,000 ft peaks nearby, get in some skiing, and stay warm — we’ll have help from the Weather on that one.

So, if you don’t hear from me by Saturday, send a search party somewhere in the vicinity of N 38.68717 W 119.98669 or N 38.66909 W 120.01213

plans are in the works for another backcountry trip this Thursday – Saturday.

Vacation procured. Bags packed (well, just “bag”). Food mostly procured.

Location – unknown… somewhere with snow. And possibly skiing.

I logged near 30,000 vertical feet of downhill skiing yesterday. My dad said I don’t look like someone who hasn’t skied in 8 years.

w00t!

I may also take this weekend off and go back country skiing/winter camping again. Hopefully this trip will be a bit less epic.

I kind of feel my energy/drive level rising. Interesting, that. On that last trip, I wanted to peak-bag 3 nearby 10,000 ft peaks in one day. If we go to the same place, I may give that a shot again.

You’ve all heard of NaNoWriMo, right? Well, a few photographic friends of mine and I are starting NaPhoPoMo. NaPhoPoMo is National Photo Posting Month – for one month straight, each day, we’ll post a photo that has never been posted before. Each photo will have a teensy bit of background, an anecdote, or some history. Techincal information does not count – we don’t care what f-stop you used, we just wanna be awed.

Travel/Absence can be made up with back posts – so long as it works out to one a day, that’s fine.

With that, stay tuned for my first post of NaPhoPoMo.

Other cats to watch out for this month:
KK
Ryan Joseph
Neil

I just bought new skis for this season!