Prussiking

@kaytlyn1579 getting her prussik on. Great time tonight at the Glacier Travel course, practicing how to climb the rope if we’d fault into a crevasse. #mountaineering #glaciers #volcanoseason

Sunset over Ballard

Sunset over Ballard and the Olympics tonight. #mountains #seattle #sunset

Early Season Climbing

After a whirlwind of a few weeks, we finally jetted out of town and did some climbing at Vantage.

The weather was perfect.
Getting in Friday night, we had a warm (and windy) night camping under clear skies staring at Mars and debating which constellations were where.

The next morning, an early start got us some solitude and our first outdoor leads of the season.

Can’t wait to get back here later in early summer, between our various volcano adventures.

Rainier Morning

The mountain waking up and shaking off its clouds this morning. We went or a tempo run this AM to achieve the same effect. #seattle #rainier

Curious Utah Tracks

Wouldn’t mind getting back into the mountains today. Curious tracks between some fresh debris off of strawberry at Snow basin, from our late feb. shred trip.

Squaw Weekend

When Katy got accepted to the Keystone Conference, we took advantage of its location to get some spring turns in, and ski in Tahoe!

Though we had heard of its famous spring riding, we had yet to experience it first hand, and it made a pretty stellar first impression.

Staying true to being a weekend warrior, I only came out for Saturday and Sunday, and flew back Monday morning to make it to work on time. Turns out, those were the two best days of the week, as the warm temps melted the mountain right off the rest of the week while Katy was there.

The hill wasn’t too crowded, and the early half of the week prior to our arrival brought with it a storm that dumped some two feet of fresh snow for us to shred.

We explored Siberia, Granite Peak , as well as some quality turns on KT-22.

While I was back at work, Katy continued to shred all week in between conference seminars and workshops. The temps climbed to the eighties, but she took full advantage of the days on the hill.

Hoping to get back here some time mid-winter, on an epic powder day, to drop some of the legendary lines Squaw is known for.
In the meantime, for those interested, Powder has a pretty awesome piece of Squaw. A worthy read about how this place is changing.

Never Gets Old

Never gets old. #sunrise #rainier #seattle

So it begins…

Yesterday was a good one. We set the skin track up skyline ridge and started the season with some well-earned powder turns. #skiseason #splitboarding

Thunder

A couple weeks back, we did a weekend of trail runs:

Thunder Knob:

Thunder Creek

Now, after a couple weeks of long runs (finished 18mi yesterday!) I’m on my way to Thunder thighs.

The remaining question is, where did this summer run off to?

Weekend in the City

close friends, whiskey stones, pitchers of IPAs, cajun mac’n’cheese, margaritas, chips, habanero sauce, red mill burgers, new friends, apricot IPAs, climbing, bayou sandwiches,  spicy taffy, badgers, terrible jugglers, fast runs, errands, perfect weather, sours, ciders, deviled eggs, trail mix, old friends, Belgian ales, good senses of humor, evening breezes, lack of worrying, ignoring time.

If I have to spend a weekend in the city, this is how I’d like to do it every time.