La La Land

Artsy backstage shot from Mane Stage at Stagecoach 2012.

In between Park City and Yellowstone I spent about 3 weeks at home in LA. It was good to be back for a bit, I got to eat all of my favorite foods, have my mom dote on me, and play tourist with Matt. For the first week I was home the weather was not so typically sunny Los Angeles. But our luck turned around and I got some decent vitamin D while home. With Matt in town I had an excuse to leave the house and explore the city some. I am proud to say I have actually walked the Hollywood Walk of Fame now. We did so much I'm afraid he has no excuse to visit the city again as he's seen it all; hopefully I'm enough of a reason. 

Camp shots

View from our campsite at dusk

One of Caitlin's perfect fires

Calling all angels

The summit of Angels' Landing

View of Zion Canyon from the summit

If you know me, you know hiking is not my thing, especially climbing peaks. However, I was in Zion National Park, I was not not going to climb Angels' Landing. The 5 mile round-trip hike was the most strenuous thing I've done in recent memory. The last mile or so takes you across a sheer cliff with chain guides, with 1000 ft plus drop offs on either side. The view from the top was well worth the effort.

Oops...I did it again

Somewhere off of the Mirror Lake Byway

It's been a while. Oops, got caught up in life and forgot to write about it. It's about mid May now and I'm writing this from Los Angeles; I leave tomorrow for Yellowstone, but more on that later. 

The last month and a half of the ski season was brutal and wonderful all at the same time. Spring Break was pure madness, a different region of the country came each week (it made for some interesting new stereotypes). March actually started out promising with a big storm in the beginning of the month. Sadly, my last true powder day was during that first week. After the storm Park City decided it was summer and the weather turned hot. We did get some new snow but it would quickly melt and freeze with these end-of-days conditions. The slush was interesting to ski on and practically impossible to teach on. But hey, the kids are 6, what do they know?

The art of the fall

"If you want some cool falling pictures, shoot me coming down this"

These were from that first powder day at Deer Valley, thought I'd post something to keep up appearances. I have some more skiing shots to go through and edit, besides that though it's been work, work, Tuesday nights, work.