The Fellowship of the Sausage - Day 3

Day 3 was kind of a rest day for everyone. We got our faces stuffed at the Pancake House and then went up to Snowbird to try out the avy beacon training park and watch the heli land on our heads. The beacpn park was broken but we played around with burying/searching with our own beacons. The party then moved on down to Pink Pine Ridge to get some powder shots in the trees. That's where Adam went 'Old School' with his awesome double pole technique.

The Fest - Day 2

We teamed up with another special guest star today - Mike 'Curly' Kurlich. We hiked up to the west bowl of Silver Fork and got another great day. Memorable moment - when Rob tried to auger through the snow to pop out in China.

Sausage Fest '07 Day One

We got the fest off to a good start by having a storm roll through town yesterday. Heavy Metal Drew, Rob E. Hickey, and Fordzilla came in late last night. Special guest star John Malloy joined us for a slog up to Cardiff Pass where we got good shots in 8" of powder. Got about 5000' in this day. Note the heli in one of the pics -- we don't need no stinkin' heli.

Let the Fest Begin!

Sausage Fest 2007 is almost here. Drew, Rob, and Ford are coming out for 5 fun filled days of adventure skiing in the greater Wasatch Range. The house is going to be filled with 4 stinky dudes. Good thing Melissa won't be here to see it.

New Snow

Self portrait with a tear of blood on my cheek. Check out those glasses -- thanks to my father-in-law. Yes, I need a haircut.

Cardiff - Solitude - Day 16 ski

Sorry I don't have tons of powder pics...I don't have time to take the camera out on days like that. This was a great tour with pretty tough windpack snow. I made one tele-turn for every 50 parallel turns. But at least made it to Cardiff with Erik and Jeff, who both work at Myriad. We skinned over to the ridgeline between Cardiff and Mill B (see pics). Skiied the NE bowl of Solitude. It was primo-if it had powder.

Red Pine Tour

Went on a our to Red Pine Lake with Shay and Pete. Skiied down into a foul smelling inversion cloud.

Carraige Ride in downtown SLC

We went on a carraige ride around downtown SLC. It was really romantic but my father-in-law was sitting right across from me.

Xmas Morning

Merry Freaking Xmas!

Xmas Eve

Mom got bundled up for a dog walk, a short dog walk. Mike and Kim (Kimmeee) came over to feast on the pizzas. One we made with Kim's legendary artichoke dip.

Junk show at Twin Lakes

Even in the backcountry you can get big crowds in the Wasatch. Here's a common sight for a Saturday (see pic). It pays to get up early.

Daisy goes to Canada

Rich and Senja were forced by Melissa to adopt a dog while they visited SLC. Maybe that should be a new rule for the house...if you stay with us then you have to rescue a dog from the shelter.

Early season skiing

Been going out a lot with John Malloy who recently moved here. We had a great dawn patrol breaking trail up Short Swing in Mill D. Lesson learned -- always wait for other people to go first to break trail.

HERA Climb for Life

Here's me at in Little Cottonwood Canyon for the 5th annual HERA Climb for Life event. I raised over $700 personally, and another $1000 from staff donations from my company Black Diamond. I had this shirt made for this event. Teal is the color for ovarian cancer awareness, and Grace Entress Lipani was my aunt who passed away in 1994. Today was our first climbing day, and the weather didn't really cooperate. We still had a great time.

Ben and Claudia came from Montreal to Salt Lake, we had tons of fun climbing with them for a day. Oui Oui.










Ben is pulling down in the photo below.












Here is a photo of me bouldering in LCC.












Here is a picture of me in my Sicilia hat with my friend Kim at the Salt Lake Ferrogosto Italian festival. 

The Italian flag flew at the Salt Lake Ferrogosto Italian fest. Kind of a bust. They ran out of meatballs and not a conolli in sight. I felt like AJ Soprano..."what....no
f*%&in' meatbawls????"

Bouldering in Price Canyon.























Hanging out with Lisa and Traci in Ft. Collins. Lisa had a baby, Ella, I'm holding her in the photo below.
Jammin' at Jay and Traci's house with Cory, Erik, Traci, and Jay. 

Hanging with Traci in Ft. Collins