Sorry for the limited photo's, I have a hard enough time managing the fish, much less take a descent photo of him while I've got him.
We have one life to live. Take every effort to make every bit of it worthwhile, in the end it's all that we can do. The relationships that we make and the experiences we've been through are all that we have. I'm trying to make my journey as interesting as I possibly can.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Something Seems Fishy
The year is moving steadily along and temperatures are on the rise, and so are the trout. I've spent three of the last five days on the river. :) Saturday and Sunday were crowded, but today I had it all to myself! What a wonderful day. BWO's are out and the fish are hungry. I've had good success so far and as of now it looks like it's going to be a good year for me. It wouldn't be to far off to say that I've landed more fish in the last week than I have out of Utah rivers my entire last year (which was my first!).
Sorry for the limited photo's, I have a hard enough time managing the fish, much less take a descent photo of him while I've got him.


Sorry for the limited photo's, I have a hard enough time managing the fish, much less take a descent photo of him while I've got him.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
blaaAAAhhh
So I've been in a funk lately. Winter tends to do that to people occasionally. I'm gonna go burn some petrol in the St. George deserts this weekend. Perhaps a little trip will straighten my mind out. Spending a couple nights in the desert tends to help me out. Also, I started my new/old job today. Hopefully that can get my life on a smooth track.
What matters most to you in life? Family? Friends? Religion? Your job?
Family.
Friends.
What matters most to you in life? Family? Friends? Religion? Your job?
Family.
Friends.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
My Struggle
Over the past few weeks my life has been crazy. Not due to any external forces directly effecting me, but because my mind has been going crazy. This school semester has been good so far, but it has been very depressing and not very optimistic when it comes to human character and the direction our human population is going. Economic issues, environmental issues, the treatment of animals, venture capitalism, food nutrition, the list goes on and on about how much shit we have to deal with. All I want to do is work a good job, eat good food, breath fresh air, spend some time in the wilderness and lead a good life. It seems like that is getting harder and harder to do though, and it pains me. I have such an internal struggle going on right now. Maybe I'll just disappear.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Twin Canyons
To start things off, this post is quite a bit delayed and I apologize for any lack of detail that might be as a result of that. With that in mind I have had my next greatest experience in the back-country.. sort of. With every tour I get out and do my love and admiration for the sport of back-country touring grows. Even if things don't necessarily turn out the way you want or expect them to, good experiences are at your fingertips. When dealing with the delicate and dangerous balance of nature, you have to move in accordance with the current conditions of the mountain or your gonna get got. You have to know when call it quits and respect that the nature of nature requires us mere mortals to do so. Enough of that though, let's get on with the TR!
Well, this post is beginning to get rather lengthy and drawn out so I'll try and get to the good part and wrap it up! All in all we got some awesome turns! This is a pathetic way to post, but here are some pictures that are worth at least a thousand words, especially when those words are the disconnected ramblings coming out of my fingers... :)
You may have noticed that the last few photos look awfully similar to the Brighton area... very observant, it is! At the bottom of Wolverine bowl we were gonna hit this chute and skin back up Twin Lakes pass and back to Alta... Well we sat at the top of the chute for roughly an hour debating the safety of the chute. We dug pits, prayed to the snow gods, thought about it, looked at it, jumped on it, threw massive snowballs down it. We bailed. Sometimes you just gotta get out of those situations. We were all fairly sure that it would be safe to ride, but what if it wasn't? There was a bunch of snow above that would funnel down into the chute, most likely rip down to the ground about 3 or 4 feet deep, and well, that would be the end of my stupid posts on the internet. If you have to sit around for an hour debating the safety... just get out of there. So we decided to ride down to Brighton and catch a bus back to the swamp lot. It turned out to not to be a big hassle at all and it was good to figure out the bus system if we have hopes of multi-canyon tours in the future. So all in all, it was OK.. AND we lived to tell the tale. :)
So we finally get back to the swamp lot, Dan's rig is still up at Alta, so Doug gives him a ride up there while I take a short nap in the back of my truck because my keys were in Dan's car. We decided to top the day off with some delicious and somewhat over-priced food from the Porcupine. Mmmm, it was good. I got the enchiladas and recommend them to all!
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Excellent Day
Another day on the mountain! This was my second day out on a splitboard and it was a great day. At around seven in the morning, Dan and I headed up LCC with hopes of finding some decent snow. We began our journey aiming for Days Fk. and it was a pretty interesting skin track... that is if you find ice interesting. I thought it was pretty sketchy, but we fought on. I biffed it a couple of times and had to boot up one section. One particular kick turn gave me a whole load of shit. I got my first ski turned and as I was trying to get my second one up and over something happened and it resulted in me more or less jumping sideways off of the skin track and landing on my side with a perfect outline of my body embedded in the untouched snow for everybody to see. What an embarassment... all well, I'm still new so give me a break. We gained altitude pretty quickly and were feeling alright, still not convinced that we were going to shoot for the top. That decision was quickly made for us when I dropped my ski pole and it shot down the mountain about a hundred feet. The idea of bailing on Days and heading for Grizzly Gulch had been in the air for a while and we thought this was the perfect reason to act on it. So we transitioned and bailed, picking up my stick on the way down. Grizzly was a great idea! We ended up with a couple of pretty sweet laps with limited effort on the skin track minus one sketch section that gave us some grief. We hit some pretty fun drops and enjoyed some awesome snow. What a riot! So the days synopsis is three good runs, some tired legs, and a lot of smiles! Oh yeah, and some pictures. So enjoy.
p.s. the last photo is the shit that we had to drive back down to. :(

p.s. the last photo is the shit that we had to drive back down to. :(
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