The Stoked Thread

It's still pretty much full-on winter up here, minus being around 40-45 every day. It snowed almost all day yesterday, so I'm envious of you guys! I guess this will at least keep me inside doing schoolwork instead of having fun--we don't even have corn snow yet.
 
this weekend was the best skiing I have ever had in Alberta. EVER. Sunshine got something like 80cm in two days. Light snow too. it was almost too much, because sunshien has a lot of flat parts. I got stuck twice and needed help getting out. faceshots all day long. I can't believe its the end of april and I'm still skiing like this.
 
had a great evening on the river. got my surf back and stuck some nice long rides. no tricks yet but feeling compfortable in the boat again
 
happy 22nd birthday to me! everyone celebrate with me today at 4:20 (time zones don't matter... i'll likely be smoking from 4:20 pm EST until the night's over) by shmokin the reefer (burning and inahling marijuana). other than that, i'm stoked that Kristine's about the coolest girl i've met in years, i have a job FINALLY, and i'm high :)
 
Happy Birthday yo!! And congrats on the chick, if it makes you happy, it makes PH happy!

Stoked on the beautiful weather that is today. Once breakfast is done, we're goin' to the park!

Plus, one of the park crew members asked me to hike Belleayre with him this weekend. And I'm gonna do it, I guess it's not time to quit! Muhahahaha :)
 
Happy Birthday!

I'm stoked to have my trampoline back. What a wonderful bouncy invention.

I'm also stoked to be going to a critter sale this weekend.
 
Haha, that has to be quoted, sorry.

Uh, I'm graduating from UW in June, then driving to Whistler, partying, might ski, then driving to Haines, AK and then taking ferries all the way down the coast with my best friend turned semi-girlfriend. Weird, but I'm kinda looking forwards to this.
 
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stoked the sox are on a 6 game win streak, despite injuries, and a lot of the young talent from their AAA team are stepping up and playing really well, so i feel that the sox have a solid future, and aren't just a big money team. Ellsbury also had 2 solo shot home runs tonight and he's still a rookie, so overall, i'm stoked for another exciting season out of the sox, and just to add, they've had one of the toughest schedules in MLB so far and they're playing almost .700 ball.
 
im equally as stoked on that.

ellsbury, pedroia, casey...basically everyone's stepping it up bigtime this year.

time to get my tickets!
 
He's still skating right?

= Tank

Stoked that the job applied for late Monday night looks promising. Got a call back Tuesday for an interview (I didn't even attach any references) and called the guy this morning and he seemed super jacked to talk about his work with me. Kinda a shit jobs since its only minimum wage and only for 7 weeks (summer 'experience' program) but its a government job and it is super good experience for my resume so i think i might take it is he offers it to me.

Felt kind of nice to have an employer stoked to talk to me and explain his personal research and shit. Plus he said he hopes to have more time and money later on for continuing work which could be good.

A pplied for a couple other posiitons today that would look good on my resume...City Planning Intern and Land tenure GIS technician. both pay like $18/hr which would be sweet...
 
SAC Strikes Again

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I just finished presenting my final architecture project and I think it went pretty well. My TA said that if any are retained mine would probably be one of them, so that's a good sign!

Also stoked that my lazy, worthless roomate is going to be gone in a couple weeks. He probably would have died had I not mothered him through this year and basically taken care of the entire house while he was "swamped with work" AKA talking on the phone and playing XBox. I can't wait!
 
Sounds like my old roommate. He would go to school, come back and play Call of Duty 4 for six hours on XBox Live with a bunch of 12-year-olds.
 
Facebook stalker. Asking for pictures is really just curiosity about what kind of ass I can get. And since I'm not in it just for ass this time, pictures are irrelevant.
 
I might have just snagged a little one-bedroom place at the bottom of the gondola in Kellogg for the summer. It would be awesome if I do get it because the house is close to a grocery store, right by work, and I can ride my DH bike to the bottom of the lift in two minutes. STOKED.
 
10 consecutive rainless days, and 7 consecutive days with temperatures above 70 degrees...

...in April in Western New York.

Fucking incredible. I've been out riding about 10 times. Absolutely LOVING it. Trails are dry as can be. Mid-June conditions. Dry and dusty.

What a way to do it. Normally we need to wait until May to be riding, and there's a boring, horrible transition time. This year I skied, and then was biking just over a week after skiing my final day.

Loving it, and LOVING my Cannondale Jekyll. Thing rides like a dream. Makes me a much better rider.
 
^ I was never a fan of dry trails...wet roots for diversity all the way!

I'm stoked that school is going....surprisingly well....Considering the slim amount of time I've been putting into it. Also, School is over in 2 weeks, whooop!

Sold my car today, for more than I was expecting to get, and in only 4 days. Also, I'm buying my next one saturday, shibbyyy! It's not a subby, but it's what I wanted;

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I get to start my new job in 3 weeks, which will provide me with enough cash over the summer months to NOT have to work 40 hours/week on top of 8 classes anymore, whoop!.

That is all.

 
Trails around here are not ride-able when wet. All about the sustainability and the local trails will quickly be closed to bikes if we go riding them when wet.

Soil composition is mostly silt loom as the area was a part of the great lakes before water levels decreased. Shit holds water, and makes for some nasty mud pretty easily.

We've done far too much work to get on the good graces of the counties park managers and land managers to throw it away with unsustainable trail use.

It's already a slippery slope with all the trails being multi-use and hikers whining about bikers, and none of the local ski areas seem to want to open up to biking even XC.
 
Shwing!

I just ordered a couple of tickets for a Breakfast/Tour at Fenway Park in May. Tehehe I get to sit on the Monster wall, go behind the scoreboard....you know, the one where Manny takes a piss in between innings....oh man I so can not wait! Best $70 I ever spent. Now I just gotta get tickets to that days game. Thatll be much harder to do.
 
I just passed out of physical therapy with my shitty knee at 90%, woohoo! We've also gotten 4-8" of snow in the mountains last night and today, and if this keeps up at all there will be a few easily accessible lines skiable through late august or september...maybe even all year. I know of one line that has about 20' more snow in it than usual, but that was only in the beginning of March. Of course, this also means there will only be 2-3 months of high elevation biking this summer (aka all the trails but 4).
 
Planned out this Alaska trip last night over king crab legs and twice baked potatoes. Heres the plan so far:

Drive to Whistler, party for 2 days with friends.

Drive to Van, take a ferry to Victoria and drive up to Port Hardy.

Take ferry to Bella Coola.

Drive from Bella Coola to Prince George, then up to Haines.

Ferry Pass in AK that gives us a trip from Haines to Juneau, Juneau to Ketchikan, Ketchikan to Prince Rupert

Drive from Prince Rupert to Prince George, then decide if we want to go back to Seattle or take a detour to Banff.

We have two full weeks, free gas and lots of hostels to stay in. Even with that, we're probably talking $1600 per person quite easily. So now, just gotta save and scrimp like mad before June.

And if anyone has suggestions of cool stuff on this crazy ass route, let me know!
 
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