Some Serious Snow

Soo we have been getting ansy around here to say the least wating for the snow.

and our waiting paid off the first couple nights we accumallated a foot maybe, then it came and when it came it came HARD, saturday night it picked up and then over sunday night we got 2 feet overnight maybe 3 i put out a cone right before we went to sleep and it was only showing about 3 inches left. today we probably got another 2 1/2 feet complete whiteout at points.

we did some shopping with a friend, then we decided to go hike a run.it was starting to get dark quick, lets just say it was deep in spots chest deep

were glad to have snow again, we open friday WooHoo!!!

Christmas Tree!

Sooo, I'm a little late posting this, But a few days ago we went and cut down our Christmas Tree.

so after breakfast we went and against my better judgement I grabbed the small Chainsaw, knowing Luz was gonna have to carry it out since I would be taking the tree. We hop in the work truck and go to the backside.

We hike to under the cornice on Chair 2 were there are a plenty of nice christmas trees, and ones that need to be cleared anyways.

well there was alot of nice trees but I wanted a perfect tree well i finally decided that the top of this pretty tall tree was what I wanted, well Iwanted it out of the run too.

SO yea i was right I should have brought my big saw because they have idiots running these litte saws and they are just junk even though they are like 1 month old. but none the less I got her down. I have a video of it though we will see if it lets me put it on here it isnt right now.

I cut it off some but I forgot a tape measure so I had to leave it long. Luz took the saw and I drug the tree out.

once we got back I measured it and cut her off. I didnt have a stand but I made one up real quick.
We put on the lights, but no ornaments yet.

The Move

So yea we finally moved into our new place.

We have been waiting and waiting they were putting in new furniture and it needed a new door which they just had to go buy and I would put in, the people who rented it before the pilot light went out in the heater so they used the oven and the stove as the house heater so they have to still replace the oven. so I had told them hey can I get a heads up a few days before so I could pack my stuff over a couple nights , "Ohh Sure, we will let you know before".



Well then a few days ago at about 1 pm at work I'm "Asked" heh yeaaa.. to be out of our place and over to the new one because the cleaning ladies will be there the next morning. luckily Luz was off so she started packing and Kieth lent me his big truck and a few loads (and hours) later we were all moved over here.





the first night there was stuff everywhere and we pretty much just unpacked enough stuff to clear the bed off and be able to brush our teeth. I was very tired worked all day then straight into moving ughh


We both had the next day off luckily so we could get some stuff put away, and so I could put in the new door. It was another long day but by the end of the day everything was pretty well sorted out. We still need to figure out a better hanging situation

The big log

Soo this is something I have been the major worker on this project, not exactly 100% but real close.... my only regret is i dont have pictures of the earlier stages of this project as I didnt have a camera then. So first off this tree was about 5 feet in diameter 200+ foot lodgepole I helped fall this tree Kieth(my supervisor) wouldn't let John or I do this one though we both wanted to really bad. I got to bang in the wedges to make this beast of a tree fall. we then bucked it (cutting the branches off)some of these branches were couple feet in diameter. I then got to run the dozer to skid this beast out. it broke off when we fell it it was probably 100' long then we cut it down to about 70'. Then on to planing it with a crazy planer attachment to a chainsaw thats right a 50hp planer heh. then to staining and some marine varnish. then to the fun part getting it up.

We took it from the shop where it was worked on to the location of where we were putting it in. We used old tower tubing as our posts for it, we dug em in with the excavator to dig them in.

we then hooked it up and we picked her up and set it on the posts.

once we got it on there we welded some brackets on

tommorow im cutting some hole in the brackets with the torch and going to set it back on there and lag bolt it in and a little paint to the tower tubing. then all we need is snow again.

Our Day Off

So lately I have been getting more days off then I would like to have. Luckily luz and I got to have the same days off at least so we decided to go out the tunnels an go play around.

We then ended up meeting up with some friends while we where out there that had the same idea as we did. These guys all ride what we call alternative snow transportation snowskates snowbikes etc. so we found us a good spot and had some fun.

I picked it right up, then my buddy said we could try doubles so I was game.

Luz had so much fun she decided to try herself

She did great it was alot of fun. By the time we got home our shoes were drenched but it was a

great day.

The Snow Has Arrived

Well we wish.... and we wish... and we wish some more as we await the first good snow...

We finally get our wish, the snow came it dumped for a few days. We actually left the hill to go to Sacramento for a couple days right as it really started to fall. Luz and I had dinner with Dad and Molly mmm sushi, then watched a movie at dads as we knew it was going to dump bad that night. the next day we ran some errands around Sac, luz got some new bindings and both of us some new boots, but I wanted to get back up to the summit before it got too crazy. As we passed Blue Canyon the clouds were black as night, and then it came. Well so as soon as we get home were both going nuts wanting to get out there so we did a little hiking.

I had to pull out the old arbor wasnt sure if it was gonna be fully covered. We actually had about 2 feet of coverage, I was pretty suprised. We took some pictures and then we were off for the first turns of the season.