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2026 Skiing & More

Over the last month or so, we finally got some skiing in. After a very cold/snowy October, some turretial rain hit the PNW and we were left with basically nothing going into December - and quite a bit of damage to roads, buildings, etc. There was even a 2 foot deep trench running through the parking lot of our ski condo - bummer… Finally, we got a few storms in mid/late December and it was time to go skiing!

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Our first season skiing at Alpental

It’s been a while since my last post - but not due to lack of adventures! Sara and I have been skiing like there’s no tomorrow: 25 days in total this year, almost a month of skiing this season! Sara was a spectacular skier for her age before this season, but seeing her slide down a double black like a pro at the end of this season was a huge rush.

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Taos Ski Trip

Summary For Sara’s mid-winter break, we flew back to Taos to go skiing. For the last 4-5 years, we have only been back in Christmas or Thanksgiving so just having a solid base of snow was pretty awesome. We got 3 days of skiing in and one rest day. Sara again is progressing leaps and bounds - she is skiing double blacks like they are no big deal and she was starting to ski parallel on the greens/blues. I’m going to apologize in advance for being a bit of a show-off in this post - I’m very proud of Sara’s skiing and I know it comes through…

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Jan Skiing Double Header

I’ve been skiing quite a bit with Sara this year - starting with a couple of days at Taos and then opening weekend at Snoqualmie and most weekends sense. This last weekend, Sara convinced me that we need to go camping more often so I decided on a double header - head up and ski on Saturday, followed by camping Saturday night, then lessons on Sunday morning and some more skiing Sunday afternoon. This was our first time van camping in a while (3-4 months I think) so there were some fresh learning pains - forgotten items, mistakes with parking, etc - but all in all a successful trip to kick-off the new year.

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Hurricane Ridge & Forks

After visiting Hurricane Ridge ski area a couple of weeks ago, I thought it would be a fun trip to go back with skiis and give the $20-lift-ticket ski area a try. It was super fun and Sara had a blast - grabbing onto the rope tow was a learning experience and she realy had to put her whole body onto it to make it work. :) Anyway, more on that later.

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Seattle Snow Day

So - we were planning to go on a van trip this weekend, but woke up on Thursday morning to this: ‹ › Snow!! Doesn’t happen very often in Seattle. So that, combined with the van not really being setup for snow driving, meant we ended up staying in the city. But, that doesn’t mean we couldn’t have a bit of fun…

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Skiing on Mt Rainier

In October of 2016, the crew got together for a day trip up Mt Rainier to do some BC skiing. The road to paradise was on it’s winder season schedule - so they didn’t open the gates until 8a and they close them down again at 8p. We had to make use of every moment we had! 2016-10-22 It was still early in the winter season, so the first bit of our trek was a hike. It was not too far, but hiking with skiis and boots on your back is always a chore. We had fun though and we were all pretty used to it at this point