Outside in W.A.

Welcome to our travel-log. Here we keep a record of each of our trips into the great outdoors of Washington state. As the seasons turn from the long and sunny days of summer, through the golden afternoons of autumn to the grey and dark of winter, the sun will burn and the gentle rains of winter and spring will turn to America's deepest snow in the mountains above. Outside in W.A. will record it all.

Friday, January 27, 2006

Whistler-Blackcomb, BC, Canada

Starting to lose track of the snowboard trips. We took off Friday morning and spent the weekend up in Whistler, one of, if not THE, best ski resort in North America. Needless to say the snowboarding was epic on the Saturday. The main events were Muirenn and Aislinn's introductions to skiing. They both took lessons over the weekends and both girls finished top of their classes. I felt like the proudest man alive... more to come on this great trip....

For this trip I was correspondent for a new website www.wejustgotback.com, article just posted here
www.wejustgotback.com/default.aspx?mod=blackcomb

Friday, January 06, 2006

A great day at STEVENS PASS

Woah! Friday before New Year's Brian and I hit Steven Pass http://www.stevenspass.com/index.aspx during a storm front. We were first on the lift. We reached the top, strapped into our boards, adjusted our goggles and hit the fresh powder on the back side of the mountain. We literally flew down in a world of white. It was snowing and foggy. I couldn't tell the difference between the trail and the sky - so I just went for it. Carving the fresh soft powder like it was butter. I can honestly say I reached a whole new level of snowboarding that day. The grin, remained etched on my face for days to come.