And I get paid for this!!!

On May 30th, Ken and I skied into one of our GPS sites on the south side of Mt. St. Helens. It was not communicating anymore so we wanted to see what was wrong. In a normal year we would have been able to drive to the site but not this year. It was a 3 mile ski one-way to the site. It was a beautiful day, not to hot but not to cold. Ken was on his cross country skis and I was on my BC skis. This was Ken's first time skiing downhill ever and he rocked it. I think he will master it with a little more practice. Below are some pictures from that day.

My favorite skis (Jerry Garcia Memorial skis) with the GPS antenna and the mountain.

Ken working on the site which looks like the snowmobiles ran over a few times.

Ken skiing out just before we got back to the truck.

I love spring skiing in June!

Aaron and I headed out June 1st to meet with some friends to ski Mt. Stuart. Lisa and Victor skied to Long Pass the day before and camped out. We got up at 3AM to ski in and meet them the next morning. The snow was pretty thin at the trail head and we had to hike a little ways before we could put on our skis. We got up to Lisa and Victor around 6:45AM and they were still hunkered down in their tent. As they were packing up we finally got a glimpse of the mountain and a lot of the low elevation snow had melted. This means that if we decided to ski it we were going to be walking in our ski boots before we got to the snow. We finally decided to go adventure in an area that we knew still had snow. It ended up being a great day with incredible corn snow skiing. The only thing that would have made it better would have been if the cloud layer would have been a little higher so that we could have seen Lake Ann from our high point but beggars can't be chooser. Here are some photos taken by Victor of our fun.

Me dropping in from Longs Pass

Super Dog-Tippi


Lisa, Aaron, and Me skinning up!

Victor, Lisa, and Aaron on top but who would have known with all that fog!

Aaron ripping up the corn.