Emma

Morning dawn patrol. Skinned up Grizzly Gulch then cut over to the the Emmas. Found a nice place to ski. Best soft turns of the year. A beautiful sunny morning after a good storm. I should have called in sick and skied at the resort the rest of the day but I went to work after the skiing. I had a smile on my face all day.




First light on Mt. Superior

Morning view of Mt. Superior

You can see the Pfeifferhorn in the middle of the shot

Lake Blanche tour

I had read a recent blog post from a backcountry skier that I follow. He ski toured into Lake Blanche because he wanted a nice low angle hike that didn't expose them to an avalanche territory. That all sounded great so when I have some time after watching my daughter run a 5k I headed to Big Cottonwood canyon. We had our first real warming trend the few days before so the snow was leaving fast. The trail head is at pretty low elevation. There were a couple of spots with no snow on the trail. When I got in to the lake it started to snow. I headed out on very wet, impossible to ski on snow. I only descended a bit before it turned from snow to rain. I got rained on all the way out. I ended up taking my skis off and hiking. I need to do this as a summer hike. Great scenery.

Curacao diving trip report

Connie and I along with our good Idaho friend the Prices and the Horrocks took a wonderful winter vacation to the Caribbean island of Curacao. We had a nice condo on a rock cliff above the most beautiful bay. It made for an excellent base of operations for our adventures. We arrived on the evening of February 22nd. We used the next few days to get acquainted with the island, get groceries and attend church. On Monday the 27th after a morning hike up the highest point on the island ( Mt. Christoffel at 375 meters) we got outfitted for 6 days of shore diving.

Monday 2 dives at
Tuesday 2 dives at
Wednesday 3 dives
Thursday 3 dives
Friday 4 dives
Saturday 2 dives

Sunday we went to church again and spent more time siteseeing the downtown area of Willemsted. We flew home on Monday morning arriving back in Salt Lake at 11:00pm. The Idaho folks drive home that night. What a long travel day.