White out Weekend

Who would have guessed I would be posting more snowboarding photos?

We just had a double weekend of boarding. We rented a condo in Government camp for a night.

Mt. Hood Meadows was just a 20 min drive away. Its nice not having to get up at 5am and drive 70 miles like we normally do. Seems the weekdays are the best time to go. There was hardly anyone there on Monday. So there wasn't much waiting in line to get on a lift. The only down side of the weekend was that there was a major snow storm, so by the end of the day on Sunday the wind was hitting 70mpr at times and they had to close the lifts an hour early. At times we couldn't see where we were going and the wind was blowing us over but we still had a great time.

I had promised myself I would take it easy on my first run. Sometimes if I take a run that is to physically demanding I get a little warn out.

So on my first run I took a less traveled path and ended up getting stuck in an area with waist deep powder and chest high snow drifts. You can see the photo on the left.

If you don't know what its like trying to walk out of that you should try it sometime. When I finally got to an area with enough of a fall line to ride out I was totally exhausted and a little light headed.

As I was walking out others arrived and ended up in the same situation. The guy fallowing my tracks through the snow was a little freaked out. When we got to the top of a near by black diamond run he asked me where we could ride down. I told him right here, he quickly replied "I'm not good enough of a snowboarder to do that. Bummer for him, he had to walk another 50 yards in the snow to a less steep hill. When I finally got back on my board I soon made another mistake and ended up getting stuck again. When I got down to the bottom lift I had already spend most of my super human energy for the day.

The rest of the day went pretty well. Marni rocked her new Rome Mod snowboard. It snowed all day for both days that we were there. So by mid day much of the tracks were already starting to fill in. We are going back tomorrow!