April 18, 2004, TAY Ski Fest

As if on cue, the Seattle cloud cover dispersed, Lowell's elk materialized, Mad_Dog's buffet appeared, and Kam's keg slid into position. A great party and a welcome chance to put faces on all the TAY logins! Special thanks to Ron and Mad_Dog for spearheading the effort . . .

Word. And GregL is an animal, FYI. Great variety of people, good fun.

Yup, good fun. I'd have liked to have chatted with more people and learned more names, but my son has a way of distracting me. We lucked out with the weather. Too bad about all the bulldozer work on the ski runs. It seemed like they were just tearing around without much of a plan. I posted a few notes about the day over in the "7-year-olds in the backcountry" thread:<br><br> www.turns-all-year.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB...1081998815;start=0#7

<br><br>I caught a great action shot of the Skoogs.  <br><br>BTW, Charles, shouldn't I be able to use HTML in posts, or does the software not allow it? Then I could rectify the low image quality.

Very nice shot Paul.<br>That's Ken Madden calling the strikes

Greg, Paul, Lowell, Et Al...<br>Were it not for your participation we would end up with nothing more than another ski tour with the "regular" ski partners. <br>Thanks to all of you for coming, is was a kick.<br>MadDog described it pretty well in her TR at:<br> www.turns-all-year.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB...splay;num=1082389049
Also, there should be a bunch of pictures there shortly (or access thereto).