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John, practicing the tele turn under the Lake View chair...
Rachel & Lake Tahoe, as viewed from the top of the...
Rachel riding the Lakeview chair.
Rachel riding the Lakeview chair.
John, perfecting the tele turn.
Rachel, getting that front leg forward, skiing Outer Limits.
Rachel skiing Outer Limits.
Colin's friend Marshall, apparently having an O.K. time...
Colin, luckiest bastard alive. Skiing Kirkwood early...
The EVO at the Slide Lodge at Mt. Rose, Nevada.
Niels and our noble steed, after an excellent morning...
Rachel and Niels east of CA-88 in Hope Valley near the...
Rachel and Niels east of CA-88 in Hope Valley near the...
Rachel, stepping back into her binding at the beginning...
I liked this tree.
Rachel, in the bottom left, making her way up a small...
As much as we complain about snowmobilers, they do leave...
Niels (left) , contemplating a crossing of the mighty...
Rachel waiting, while Niels tries to figure out where we...
Rachel going up the hill.
Rachel and Niels eating lunch.
Rachel and Niels eating lunch.
Rachel starting off for the abandoned mine, north of CA-88.
Niels on the trail to the mine.
I can see the car from here. Can you spot it?
Rachel at the top of our climb, while Niels inspects the...
Niels at the top of our climb, while Rachel pulls off her skins.
This looks really cool until you realize you are viewing...
Ouch.
John in a unlikely and fleeting moment of grace on the...
Rachel testing out the softness of the snow.
Almost back to the car :).
Catherine "skiing" down her first downhill on her split board.
From left to right (or bottom to top) Niels, Rachel, and...
Catherine, tearing it up on the uphill on the hike in to...
From left to right (or bottom to top) Niels, Rachel, and...
Catherine and Rachel on the saddle descending into the...
Catherine checking out the snow while Peter and Rachel...
Catherine rippin' it up into the Truckee River box...
Catherine rippin' it up into the Truckee River box...
Catherine ripping it up in the Truckee River box canyon.
Rachel skiing the entrance to the Truckee River box canyon.
Red Lake Peak, with Catherine and Tom trudging upward in...
Catherine, on top of the world.
Catherine, on top of the world.
Rachel, cruising down from the top of our hike (unknown...
Rachel, cruising down from the top of our hike (unknown...
Rachel, cruising down from the top of our hike (unknown...
Rachel, inspecting her tracks as the sun sets behind the...
Catherine, hanging an arm out on a heel-side turn, from...
Catherine, ear flaps flying in the breeze.
Catherine, nicely balancing on her heel edge.
Catherine, on her skateboard sized split board :).
Catherine, laying down a big rooster tail on our final...
Catherine, reaching down to touch the snow on our final...
Catherine, with another huge powder rooster tail.
Niels, if ever there was an example of a stationary...
Catherine with her split board and skins on Sunday...
The three amigos, picture #1.
The three amigos, picture #2.
The three amigos, picture #3.
Catherine, making the final climb on our trip, with less...
Catherine, making the final climb on our trip, skins...
From top to bottom or left to right, Niels and Catherine...
Catherine, with some sort of tree in the background.
John, not ready to go home yet.
Catherine, with split board fully assembled (Step 1).
Catherine, with bindings removed (Step 2).
Catherine, unhooking the "whale" clamps(Step 3).
Catherine, with split board separated into skis (Step 4).
The GPS track of our route the first day of skiing.
The GPS track of the route on Day 2.
The GPS track of the ski in.
Annnnd, the GPS track of the entire weekend.
John crossing an avalanche zone near Alpine Meadows...
John on an exposed ridgeline on the ridge leading north...
Rachel, crossing a talus slope just north of Alpine Meadows.
Rachel, just north of Alpine Meadows, with an impressive...
Niels, with Rachel and a cornice in the background.
Niels, again with Rachel and a cornice in the background.
John and Rachel below cornice.
John and Rachel below cornice.
John and Rachel on a spine which descends to Five Lakes....
Our tracks on the approach to Five Lakes.
Rachel, victorious.
Rachel, skiing, at far left (look closely).
Rachel and Niels, with the private development chairlift...
More tracks.
Niels, somehow always looking graceful on film.
Rachel enjoying the view while skiing.
Rachel, skiing again
Rachel and Niels taking a breather.
Rachel and Niels, again.
It was interesting to watch the top, perhaps, 2 inches...
"Mini" slow-motion avalanche again.
Rachel, tucking on the flat part approaching Five Lakes.
John, skiing the final approach to Five Lakes.
Niels and Rachel once again.
John and Rachel enjoying the sun while breaking for lunch.
John and Rachel again, relaxing and eating underneath...
19 feet of snow on May 17.
And what are Bruce and Meg up to?
Bruce and Barbara in the cold night ... it was chilly
Ditto for Bruce
This is definitely underground
But we are still smiling
Back outside and into downtown Bisbee
...which is nestled under some pretty impressive crags
I believe there was a rainbow when I took this
Coatimundi hanging out in the trees
John, at Alpine Meadows on Sunday after the car disaster...
John, at Alpine Meadows.
John at Alpine Meadows. It was so warm my friend Jon...
Nice cruiser trail at Alpine Meadows, with Lake Tahoe in...
Monica boarding through some deep slushy snow at Alpine...
Monica snowboarding under the Sherwood chair at Alpine.
Monica at Alpine Meadows.
Monica at Alpine Meadows.
Monica at Alpine Meadows.
Monica, resting in the snow.
Monica with Lake Tahoe in the background.
Monica with Lake Tahoe in the background.
Yang (red) and Monica (brown) at Alpine Meadows, on the...
Yang snowboarding at Alpine Meadows.
Yang and Monica snowboarding back to the car on Sunday afternoon.
Monica at Alpine Meadows.
Yang on the ride back to the car at the end of the day.
Yang, dragging a knuckle at Alpine Meadows.
After trying snowboarding for the first time in 15...
Monica cruising back to the car.
Monica, on the flats.
Monica, heading back to the car.
Monica on the way to the car.
Yang, pumped after a good weekend of riding.
Steam coming out of my boot in the parking lot. I guess...
Liz and one of her friends, comparing puffy coats in the...
Liz and her friend.
Monica rides her first t-bar lift. Turns out this is a...
Monica's cheek post-injury. Monica face-planted on a...
Monica, after a few hours of recovery at the summit...
If only we had a baby carrot and some pebbles.
Northstar recently added a Ritz-Carlton hotel which has...
Matthew Drewes and Kim (Morris's wife) at Diamond Peak...
Morris at Diamond Peak on Saturday. Matthew was able to...
Monica at Diamond Peak on Saturday (Kim and Morris in...
John, Matthew, Kim, Morris, and Monica (front) posing at...
Matthew challenging authority at Diamond Peak.
Monica, who is now going by the name Nell Lee (reference...
Monica at the Big Chief sport climbing area near Squaw...
Going swimming at a swim hole after a hot day climbing...
Jeff and A.J. discuss something important looking.
I think this is after I accidentally slid into Lee and...
Lee, Jeff, Jen and A.J.
Monica, in the river.
Lee and A.J.
John, trying to warm up on the rock.
John and Monica.
Our little swimming hole.
Yang, resorting to an even more primitive method of snow...
Yang, concluding there was something wrong with his...
Pyramid Peak, viewed from one of the chairs at...
Yang with Pyramid Peak in the background. Not that it is...
John and Monica, riding the Madison chair at Homewood.
I had never been to Homewood before, and while it's not...
Yang and Vanessa on the chairlift. Since I was trying...
Yang's not doing bad for his first day of skiing since...
John, assuming the position while snowboarding at...
Monica and I start to dig out the car on Sunday, on our...
John, using a shovel in lieu of an ice scraper.
Our condo, or rather Vanessa's family's condo, where we...
While we were waiting for I-80 to open the first time,...
Here comes the bobcat again. Since I-80 was still...
Attempt number two at 7pm. I-80 opens, but is a parking lot.
After two hours of being on the road and having made it...
Still snowing very hard.
I wish we were going 30 mph. Monica said the snow piling...
Attempt number 3: Monday night. Every idiot on the road...
This is after maybe 5 minutes of not clearing our windshield.
On Sunday, Monica and I decided to take advantage of a...
Most two story houses were completely covered in snow....
Here is a house that was slightly more buried by the...
Most roads had the feeling of a "hamster maze" since the...
Another house that got a little snowed in. Note the eave...
This person's house didn't do so bad. A real driveway...
Snowbank that is higher than the electrical wires...
And then in some places the snow drifts have started...
Guess they gave up plowing a road to the house and went...
At least the satellite dish got cleaned off. Got to have...
3 story house, first two stories completely covered in snow.
Talk about a candidate for the "not my job" award. Guess...
The Sugar Bowl bus isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
Monica poses with the remaining top foot or so of the...
On the Sunday we assembled a group of seven to explore...
Monica somehow not overheating yet, while hiking uphill.
Making our way up to the top of Mt. Judah (8,245 ft)....
Mary, Pete, Vinnie, Jon and Yang on the northern flank...
John, rocking the new splitboard on Mt. Judah.
View of Donner Lake from Donner Peak. The curvy thing...
Signs at the border of Sugar Bowl ski area. Donner Lake...
Eating lunch on Mt. Judah: John, Yang, Mary, and Pete.
Monica hiking below a broken cornice.
John snowboarding on Donner Peak.
Top of Mt. Judah. Actually we're on a false summit, the...
Monica skiing down from Mt. Judah past the southern...
We tended to pick out dead trees or in this case pairs...
John, Vinnie, Mary, Monica, Pete, Jon, and Yang, with...
Pete skiing down a gentle pitch on the eastern side of...
Mary, dropping into a tele turn.
Vinnie.
Monica killing it on the east side of Donner.
Yang.
Jon.
Vinnie throws a snowball at me.
Yang, hanging out above the old unused Central Pacific...
Monica, boarding past the entrance to a tunnel belonging...
Central Pacific Railroad tunnel... I wonder how far it...
Vinnie shredding it up.
Pete.
Mary. Wipeout!
Arriving back at the road around Donner Lake. We set up...
Pete, Jon and Yang back at the Donner Lake trailhead....
Packing up the cars to head home...
Monica and I at the top of KT-22 on Saturday.
Watching a storm roll in from the top of KT-22. It...
Monica hooked us up with a beautiful studio condominium...
Soakin' it up in the hot tub after a long hard day.
And then it started to snow while we were in the hot tub.
Snowing in the hot tub.
Hanging out in the 22-foot diameter hot tub at High Camp...
In the snowbank behind me was where I saw a marmot the...
Monica and John on the observation deck at High Camp.
Monica at High Camp. If you look really closely you can...
Here comes the cable car!
I think it holds 150 people.
Parking lot upon waking up on Sunday morning, May 15.
Not actually our car, but one that looks just like it....
Bicycles with snow in the village at Squaw.
The skiing was actually amazing - high of 25 degrees,...
Monica and Squaw in the background.
In case you didn't realize.
Monica snowboarding on May 28th.
Sitting out a storm on Saturday afternoon. Hard to...
Snowboarding in the snowstorm.
Still snowing hard.
A very confused-looking robin, hopping around in the...
Monica, in the hot tub, while it was snowing.
We started to collect a lot of snow in our hair while in...
This was at the base, at 6,200 feet. We were told the...
Snowy hair.
Snow still coming down like crazy.
Monica started to form an ice-hat.
Monica playing in a foot of fresh snow on Sunday May 29.
Monica taking the last run of the day on closing day for...
Monica on her toe edge.
Last run of the season.
John taking his last run of the season under the Shirley...
Bouncing off the snow.
Pretty sweet goggle tan!
The hot tub and pool at High Camp, right after the lifts...
Swimming in the lagoon pool. Turns out it's hard to hold...
Hanging out in the pool, which was heated to 80 degrees....
In the lagoon after the lifts closed. I was a little...
Monica in the pool.
John swimming around.
Baby marmot? Chipmunk? We weren't sure.
Big, fat momma marmot. Photo taken from the hot tub.
Fireworks at the base of Squaw Valley USA on New Year's Eve.
Monica at the new cabin in Tahoe with her new camera...
Another shot. We were calling the night of New Year's...
Monica's birthday pie. Liz had been planning to make...
Monica with her birthday tayberry pie.
Monica at the top of pitch 2 of "Junior High" (5.6) on...
John at the top of pitch 2 of Junior High, wearing an...
Monica at the top of the third and final pitch of Junior...
John on the short 10 minute hike back to the car. Check...
And if you thought Sugar Bowl's ski conditions looked...
Last weekend, Marlin, Dong, Monica and I decided to go...
The river flowing into Emerald Bay is Eagle Creek, which...
Eagle Lake Cliff is a vertical if not gently overhanging...
First up was Flight Simulator (5.11a) a very steep thin...
TC Pros in action. (The high top climbing shoes designed...
Dong, working it on the 5.9 slab above Flight Simulator.
Near the last bolt.
At the top.
A 5.10b fists/offwidth crack I meant to try all weekend...
Monica racked up and ready to go on Saturday afternoon.
Spacewalk (5.11c) after my (far from clean) lead on...
We liked this cliff so much that we thought it was worth...
Dong stepping around the 5.12 direct start to Spacewalk.
Dong at the bottom of Spacewalk.
Climbing the fun, easy hand crack section.
Fun, overhanging hand crack.
Hard to imagine a more picturesque location for climbing.
Into the fun offwidth section.
The other crack is not so easy to see from inside the...
Getting purchase.
Moving on up.
Plotting the next move.
Hugging the refrigerator.
Looks a lot easier than it is.
Monica found old photos where the offwidth / chimney on...
Not easy.
Faithful belayers. I didn't have ascenders with me;...
One of the more challenging parts.
Inch by inch.
Trying one technique.
And then trying a different technique.
Overhung off-fingers. Fun.
Liebacking off a very subtle shelf.
Taking a rest.
Next part isn't so bad.
Compare and contrast. I guess they had a pretty wide...
Double crack.
Funnest part of the climb for sure.
Fun moves.
Nearing the last hard part and on to the scary part.
The crack starts to narrow to tips above this point.
Starting the "space walk". I'm a little slow so the name...
Dong opts for the direct finish, supposedly a 5.12...
Using a heel hook to get up on the ledge.
Making the traverse.
Done!
Courtesy of Marlin: Dong lifted from one of my photos...
After returning from Pear Lake, Monica and I had roughly...
Originally the ambitious plan had been to drive to Tahoe...
In fact the rain never really materialized other than a...
The pulk got to go on its second outing in 2 weeks: The...
Sled probably weighed 70 lbs. Note to self: need to put...
Monica, skiing in to the Lost Trail Lodge Saturday morning.
Crossing a small stream.
The whole way were were guided by green blazes on the...
At the end of the railroad ox bow, we were forced to...
After another half mile of skiing, we arrived at the...
After a long ski in, Monica warms her hands by our...
Going for a short ski tour Saturday afternoon. Monica...
Monica on Saturday afternoon. We came across a ski cat...
On Saturday evening, I sort of came down with the flu....
More wintergreen moss and trees on the hike to the ice climbs.
Monica gets ready to climb Code Red (WI 4+, 60 meters)...
View across the canyon on the hike back. Code Red is the...
Riddell's sled: even more deluxe than mine. Having...
After coming down with the flu, and with Monica's...
Lady shakes Monica's hand as she does with all esteemed...
"Monica, that dog would go through a lot of dog food."
Lady decides to lead us back to the railroad tracks. I...
Crossing back over the tracks.
Monica gets fed up with my illness-induced pokiness and...
Marlin hiking up Red Lake Peak on Sunday morning.
Marlin and Dong after a successful ski run down Red Lake Peak.
John taking a self-portrait.
Waiting by the lake for Dong to ski down.
Valley between Red Lake Peak and Stevens Peak.
There seems to be a mad made earthen dam at the end of this lake.
Dong skiing down on our second run.
Dong skiing. Surprisingly good snow for there having...
On Monday, Jim, Carla, Dong, Marlin, Monica and I went...
Dong (left) and Karla (right). Jim (center) tows baby...
Baby Samara was pretty much grinning from ear to ear the...
Karla (mom) towing Samara. Clouds in the distance...
Forgot to mention Lumi came along too.
Family photo: Jim, Karla and Samara.
Trekking along in Hope Valley.
Karla and Samara.
After lunch, Monica and I parted ways with the group and...
Monica, climbing some of the last few steps to the start...
Meyers and the local golf course in the background.
Looking tough.
Monica climbing Clean Corner, a fun 5.8 warmup.
The joke was on us. The corner was filled with gravel...
Climbing away.
Making use of features.
On top. Looking back down. Short but fun climb.
View back across the valley.
John hanging around at the base.
Getting lowered, with fun shadows.
Winter days are short.
Hiking back down after a fun (but short) couple of hours...
Neat little crag for being a 5 minute drive + 10 minute...
Instagram photo.