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PNW Winter is Here

After telling myself continually to wait it out through early season conditions, I managed to get a day in on the Friday before my birthday. One of Catherine’s co-workers, Sean, offered to drive up for the day, hoping to catch the projected two feet of snow on top of the recent back to back storms we’d had.

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I’m happy to say I’ve returned to skiing injury free. A few months ago, back in August, I injured myself during my usual fall season workout, on a normal day, due to a number of factors, but mainly not recognizing my own fatigue. After several months of PT I’m now back to about 90%, and not looking to get hurt and miss what is shaping up as a great winter, with a long touring season ahead. If there’s one lesson I’ve learned, it’s that strength training is useless without mobility and a good foundation.

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It was a great day, and because of the two feet of relatively dry powder by PNW standards, a good time to feel things out. Here’s one of Sean, with video to follow.

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Stevens Storm Skiing

My first PNW powder footage!  After dealing with goPro issues all season, I was glad to finally record some turns.  I headed up Monday for some storm skiing after 30″ in 48hrs at Stevens Pass. Baker has been getting dumped on, but was out of reach for a mid-week solo day trip. I had basically no clue where to go on a powder day, since I’ve spent more time up at Baker, especially when Rob was visiting, and Crystal otherwise.  Luckily I had the good fortune of skiing a most of the day with a Stevens regular I met on the lift, who showed me around.

It was a great day to get out and enjoy the snow!