Sept 12 2003, Beside Myself

Since all of us are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the new snow, what do you do to amuse yourself in the meantime. ??? I usually do some road bike and mountain bike riding, in addition, hiking with Ron checking out some really cool new areas that we will ski as soon as the snow flies. I'm sure Charles from TAY will be interested too, so I'm sure he won't mind that we use this idle time.

Work &gt;<br>Enjoy friends and family <br>Repair, update, maintain and generally fiddle with gear ???<br>Study maps; look for new stashes <br>Do recon hike to new potential stashes <br>Scheme on turns for the next month if we don't get fresh snow by then ???<br>Plan trips to the freshies with the "rock skis" for when we DO get the freshies <br>Pray for snow.

I tend to bug partners about climbing a volcano to 'ski' ice and runnels. That, and post on various internet forums.

Ok these words are only coming from mister sucky snowboarder but...<br><br>...ice and runnels? Well there might have been some under that fresh snow on Baker this weekend. Best 8 pounds I ever hauled up there for sure.

I'm just bitter cause I haven't gotten out in about three weeks.

well I guess we just got lucky. Lets see, that brings my streak to, well, must be 1 month and counting now...