Let's send YetiMan to BBi19 in Utah

[ill-advised strategy]

What field is your wife in? Job market is strong here. What do u want to do? Look forward to skiing with u and meeting up.

She manages a corporate retail outlet. She's been a regional manager of the year a bunch of years running and her two way relationship with the company is very good, she loves it, it loves her...etc. There were, or maybe are, promotional opportunities that would involve moving to Milwaukee or Minneapolis or something like that. She enjoys our life here. We're close to the beach, little house, etc. She really doesn't want to leave the company, and her gut reaction to Utah, as a whole, is familiar to me....it was mine before I had life experiences pushing me to go there against my instincts. So I've felt like I want her to see it the way I did, that may not be possible in a short period of time....I'm not sure.

Anyway, yeah, we should go. We've never really done a vacation because the entire time we've been together it's kind of one of us working or lack of money or dog logistics....all that stuff.

basket case. Wear your helmets everybody....being a scramble head is hard.

[skiJ]

No pressure. Take the trip, bring the wife along. Enjoy the skiing, make new friends, treat it as a vacation.

ditto --

[Norseman]

Bump.

[skifishbum]

bump back at ya with props to get outside and telefreewasatch
and a couple hundy more in the kitty
stoked 2 share sums iistrategies smiles soon

[ill-advised strategy]

Thanks man. Plans are coming together.

[Djongo Unchained]

^^^^Any bumps in the road, Yetiman? How can I hep?
You still plan on driving? Mag beds/couches along the way could be rad...

[skifishbum]

youre welcome to stay here, get a nice place alone somewhere
or the icecrib (given mrs ices blessing)
sheldon says latters a watershed and if the furkid comes he has to stay here and be his puppy friend

[Norseman]

Bump for the last time... closing the fund to new donations after this week.

Any new year resolutionaries out there with a couple coins to toss?

[mall walker]

dogs aren't allowed in Big Cottonwood Canyon or Little Cottonwood Canyon, even in your car afaik, so you can't bring them to Solitude/Alta/Bird/etc just fyi. no clue on dog-friendly hotels in the area though there are a zillion hotels so I'm sure there's something. there is a fair amount of dog-friendly touring if you're willing to get out of the Cottonwoods though. also a lot of dog daycare type things, though be warned they'll want records of vaccines which might be a problem for you PNWers and some places will want an "interview" first (though at Camp Bow Wow at least the "interview" day is just a free day of daycare)

[homebrewd]

Donated. Hope ya make it there man.

[wyeaster]

thanks 4 doing that Norse!!!

so the next mission will be acquiring donations for the 19BBI@Alpental raffle, with 100% of the proceeds going towards funding Pediatric Brain Cancer Research.
long time mag, Sorrybro’s boy Roarke, just won his battle with brain cancer and i want to help him help other kids that are effected, by supporting Children’s Hospital’s life saving work.

awesome.

[Norseman]

Campaign is closed. Thank you to all donors!

$1820 was raised.

[skifishbum]

hes home safe and as sound as evars
bless all of you
who made this blessing
happen

[iceman]

For the record, if you guys had put this in the right forum, and I had seen it in time, I might have contributed. Maybe.

[wyeaster]

very nice

[skifishbum]

For the record, if you guys had put this in the right forum, and I had seen it in time, I might have contributed. Maybe.

icemanselectivereadsinjeans
and you did contribute to his enjoyment of his SKIING trip
on slope and off

[ill-advised strategy]

Yes, the whole thing was a total dream come true.

Thanks to all of you who contributed money and offers to stay with you and skiing and partying and lending me gear...it was an avalanche of love and I appreciate it so much.

One of my favorite parts of the whole thing is/was just being in the presence of iconic guys like Iceman and Splat and Djongo and Flowing Alpy and SFB and BobMc....Older brothers. I have to take better care of myself because I want to be like you guys in 15 years. I want to be like you guys right now, but I want to still be like you moving indefinitely forward.

It was good to check a series of memories....
"Steep" is steeper than I remembered...
The High T is more brutal than I remembered
Wildcat remains hidden in plain view
Everywhere we skied I was finding myself enjoying skiing I wrote off when I lived there. I don't know wtf that was all about....Utah has a hell of a lot of skiing.
My old neighborhood is as skeezy as it ever was, even with 3x the property values. I feel like it may have gained an Ogden.

Speaking of which:
I'm rating Ogden at 1 Ogden....It could be zero Ogdens, it's trying. Maybe it's zero.
I'm also rating Carter Lake Iowa (Omaha) 3 Ogdens.
Green Bay: 0 Ogdens
Solitude -9 Ogdens.
Laramie Wyoming -1 Ogden.
Galena IL -2 Ogdens

It was fun to spend time in the valley with all the Husky Latin Women.

Norseman really stood out in the ripper dept.
If any of the scouts read my emails, we'll never see sirvicsmasher again because he'll be playing for the Canucks next year.

Iceman will need to write his book on The Wheel, because there isn't enough time in the day to explain it in conversation form.

Brock Landers is such a boss I'm just glad he didn't write me up. He handled being dragged to The Best Worst Mexican Restaurant in Salt Lake City like a champion.

All you guys, so many more of you....just being around normal skiers for a few days charges my batteries.

Thank you all so very much.

[mcski]

This thread rules

[skiJ]

Yes, the whole thing was a total dream come true.

Thanks to all of you who contributed money and offers to stay with you and skiing and partying and lending me gear...it was an avalanche of love and I appreciate it so much.

One of my favorite parts of the whole thing is/was just being in the presence of iconic guys like Iceman and Splat and Djongo and Flowing Alpy and SFB and BobMc....Older brothers. I have to take better care of myself because I want to be like you guys in 15 years. I want to be like you guys right now, but I want to still be like you moving indefinitely forward.

It was good to check a series of memories....
"Steep" is steeper than I remembered...
The High T is more brutal than I remembered
Wildcat remains hidden in plain view
Everywhere we skied I was finding myself enjoying skiing I wrote off when I lived there. I don't know wtf that was all about....Utah has a hell of a lot of skiing.
My old neighborhood is as skeezy as it ever was, even with 3x the property values. I feel like it may have gained an Ogden.

Speaking of which:
I'm rating Ogden at 1 Ogden....It could be zero Ogdens, it's trying. Maybe it's zero.
I'm also rating Carter Lake Iowa (Omaha) 3 Ogdens.
Green Bay: 0 Ogdens
Solitude -9 Ogdens.
Laramie Wyoming -1 Ogden.
Galena IL -2 Ogdens

It was fun to spend time in the valley with all the Husky Latin Women.

Norseman really stood out in the ripper dept.
If any of the scouts read my emails, we'll never see sirvicsmasher again because he'll be playing for the Canucks next year.

Iceman will need to write his book on The Wheel, because there isn't enough time in the day to explain it in conversation form.

Brock Landers is such a boss I'm just glad he didn't write me up. He handled being dragged to The Best Worst Mexican Restaurant in Salt Lake City like a champion.

All you guys, so many more of you....just being around normal skiers for a few days charges my batteries.

Thank you all so very much.

: ) Thank you, -J (!) tj

[Djongo Unchained]

Hey, my friend, thanks for including me with the old Lions. Those guys have a ton of mileage on me here at the trg'z. I hope to be able to pull my weight with the Bosses. And everyone for that matter.

And FWIW, I feel that I have found my lost tribe here. Most I like, one or two not as much, and a few who are plainly from the same gene pool.

IAS - I would be psyched to have you as a guest of the Teton Mags. Anytime, this summer, next winter, whenever.

[ill-advised strategy]

Hey, my friend, thanks for including me with the old Lions. Those guys have a ton of mileage on me here at the trg'z

Posting is one thing. Living is another.

I'm just honored to take a few runs with you guys. The little mouse inside my skull was going FULL SPAZ . I don't know how I even held it together.

[Djongo Unchained]

safety meetings

FKNA right.




IAS, did you haul those solly PRs home?

[ill-advised strategy]

Oh hell yes I did.

60% chance I ski those tomorrow. Gotta get up sfb-early so's I can mountify before the poodle wakes up and gets all stressed out and poodly about "scary basement noises".

S T O K E D

[snowaddict91]

The last day he was here we rode up the lift with a guy on pocket rockets and a MATCHING baby blue one piece. After giving him crap about his skis the entire chair ride, IAS finally confessed that they were actually his favorite skis. Quite comical.

[Djongo Unchained]

JH thrift store specials. No shit. git sum.