pics from a few posts ago when it was really cold

Typical...my old digital camera popped up again after ducking out for a month or so. Here's what I found...six megapixels! This is from the trip when even time froze!

My new space station. 1.5 pounds, uses ski poles for support. This is the one where you can stand up and pee inside the tent! Lost river peak in the background. Can you spot the comic intrusion?

Frozen reservoir. The obvious S shaped channel on the left meets the river right at the dam. 

Just one more amazing line that I've been eyeing for about a year now, just waiting for the conditions to be right. I'm thinking skier's left off the unnamed 11,448' summit. Shadowed by 12,000 foot giants, this peak has little to offer the peak bagger. The glisse mountaineer, however, losses sleep over this 2,000 foot tall face, more rock than snow.

Looking north across Jones Creek from the north west shoulder of Lost River Peak.

skiing and fishin'



A little fishing and lots of skiing. Last Sunday I woke at 4 AM to climb and ski the 5,000 foot south west face of Mt Mcaleb. On the road in I was faced with the question of how much momentum a Tacoma needs to plow through a snow drift of X size and Y density. Luckily, a quantitative answer was not required. All I needed to know was "the more the better". Eventually, however, X and Y became insurmountable, leaving me to dig out with only my hands since I had forgotten my shovel. I quickly came up with a plan B.

Copper Basin is about 40 minutes from my house, and has a plowed access road for all the snomo homo sapiens. I drove to the end of the plowing where a makeshift lot held a few gas guzzlers and a lot of broken beer bottles. From there, I was able to spin laps on a 1,000 foot face just off the road.


A species of Tillapia caught on a dry fly from a warm spring





Meadow skipping just of the road in copper basin