Winter hasnt left yet...

Dang, I am getting so bad at this bloggy thing. Work and house being the usual excuse. Well, climbing as usual is in there as an excuse. The warmth crept up for a weekend recently and a really great crew of old OMC and some new was at smith for a 80 degree weekend. But now it is supposed to snow in Corvallis Sat, so winter clearly isnt gone yet. 2 weekends ago, Bryan, me and some other folks wend rafting and skiing for th weekend. I played hookey on Friday and enjoyed an incredible powder day at skibowl, with much hucking of cliffs and carving up an EMPTY ski hill. I have never actually ridden an empty ski resort all day and it is really fun when you ca look at the steepest face and know that around half the lines are yours. Then carrington and crew showed up, we rafted the white salmon in the morning, in the snow, and then went back to skibowl to finish off the night with some margaritas and another 7 hours of snowboarding. That, again was one of the best ski days I have had, just for the sheer amount of alcohol that was consumed. Bryans tab was $235 for the evening (4 guys drinking, I was DD. :P )and that included 5 rounds of double margaritas with everclear. I dont want to say that anyone was being unsafe, but gawd damn, watching everyone crater at the bottom of the cliff band after drinks was HILARIOUS. Especially Bryan, because he went off, hit a lower cliffband, and then bellyflopped from about 15 feet.

Yep, life is still rockin!
(Darrel on Round River at 9pm below, Rob on Buffalo Warrior above)


I am taking on a lot of "real" work for my job now. In Hood River yesterday we completed 4 herbicide application that I have been planning for the last 2 months. That was kinda nice to see things go off without a hitch. I think after a brief lull in the next 2 weeks, I may be off to Idaho to go bombing around the desert on ATVs for a survey job. sounds kinda fun huh. This summer has another 400,000+ ac fire survey/application that I might be running a crew of 10 or so college studeents on. That sounds entertaining as fuck. I hope we get that bid.