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