January gone? Really?

How time flys when you love to fly yourself. January was an intense month that was very out of the ordinary for multiple reasons. To start the month off I went back to Tahoe to meet up with the posse for our Grand Targhee trip and for Randy's service. Randy's service was held at Squaw Valley and was attended by nearly 2000 people it was good to hear so many positive stories and great memories. He will be severely missed by all he touched in his life.
At like 6am the next morning I met up with the crew and we started the 12hour barge to the Grand! Here is the group at a pit stop in route from left to right Dennis, Dave, Christian, Kevin, Amanda, Rose and Mullet the photo was taken by Lucia and I was off skating around. The best part of the drive was the walky-talky's! The two subaru's were in humorous communication through out the mind altering drive. Arriving to -9 degrees and a storm front approaching we unloaded the gear in an extremely timely manner. The first two days were Teaton style snow; light and fluffy, but Wednesday looked to be the "day" a big front coming in! Unfortunately the temperature went up and the big front still produced lots of snow just not good snow. It was heavier then the Sierra cement we all grew up riding plus it had this funky crispy layer on top. So needless to say it was kind of a bummer but we made the best of it... I went and slid a bunch of rails and got a few other members of the group to try the boxes. One of the nights we went to the yurt a totally unique experience, first off the transportation to and from was by horse drawn sleigh, the food was epicly delicious plus wine and good friends. To top off an already great evening we had to have a good old session on the sled hill! OHH what a great week!

On my way back to Humboldt I went to Sacramento to see my Grandmother for the last time. My sister, dad and I went to the hospital she was in and spent a few hour with her. I am extremely grateful I was able to say good bye to her before she passed on. Plus it was really good to hear her laugh, she was absolutely cracking up at the sight on my wild hair! As I took off my hat my mop of hair was all over the place and she started laughing so hard, it was great. I love you Granny!
The rest of January and the beginning of February were unseasonably nice up here on the North Coast so I spent a lot of time hiking, biking, disc golfing and climbing; I even went skim boarding and swimming in the ocean. My hommie Mark moved up here to go to Humboldt state and our good friends Bobby and Scott came up for a visit that involved a lot of disc golf and one round of ball golf. Now I'm preparing for an epic journey to Alaska for heli skiing guide school! Stay tuned for and update from AK.