Blog Fail

So yeah, about this winter, it happened. I wrote nothing on here about it. I thought about doing so a lot, but usually decided not to because the stories I wanted to tell might have incriminated either myself or my employer. Well, maybe not incriminate, but give light to things that really shouldn't be just floating around on the internet. Can't be too careful with that internet. There are photos from the winter up on Facebook at least, and I'll post a favorite here as well.

Of course, I still did a lot of normal, fun things this winter too, but by December blogging had more or less been removed from my mental checklist of things to do when really bored. I went on a hut trip, played a lot of indoor soccer, skied 100 days, and went backcountry skiing around Vail. If blogspot lets me, I'll post the video I made about this winter (it's long).

And now comes the self-promise to post more, as this is a really good way to keep in touch with a lot of friends, mostly through uploading these posts as notes on Facebook, though recently I've been using my Facebook status for that purpose since I know not near as many people read the notes. Still, this definitely remains the forum of choice for details.

Speaking of details, here's what I'll be up to in the coming months and what my future posts will about (or what a long-distant future post will be aplogizing for not covering).

June & July: Back in Yellowstone working as a geologist. Going to finish the project I started last summer and hopefully get a journal article out of it. Watching the world cup and maybe even winning a league basketball game this year (which will probably only happen if the team that always wins lets me play for them).

August and every month after that for the foreseeable future: Graduate school at Arizona State to get my Ph.D. T.A.'ing, doing research, and trying to work in as much ultimate, soccer, hiking, and skiing as my schedule allows.



That's me and my awesome skis, Rossignol Phantom SC97's. Unfortunately I broke them about a week after I took that photo. Fortunately, I got them waranteed and have already received my new replacements, 2010-2011 Rossignol S97's. Sweet.

I broke 3 pairs of skis this winter: the Rossignols (cracked sidewall from cliff hucking), Atomic Tele Skis (too weak for my weight and skiing style, I ripped the binding off mid-turn), and Rossignol SC 80's (hit a rock at A-Basin in May a week after buying these as used demo skis from the shop I worked at). I replaced the tele skis with Dynastar Mythic Riders, which rock. I'm hoping to get a mismatched pair to replace the 80 I destroyed, fingers are crossed.