Mammoth Ski Trip number 4

Drove up on Friday the 5th. Skied on Sat. the 6th in snowy conditions. Skied Sunday the 7th until Superbowl time. Ryan and I staked out the prime spot to watch the game in front of the big screen TV at the main lodge bar called Tusks. And skied some in Sunshine on Monday the 8th.

4 days including travel. 2 and 1/2 days on the slopes. Lots of fresh snow to play in. And skied in 4 to 8 inches of Fresh Powder!

Very Nice. Glad we went.




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Ampted to to to to Go Again

Working my stuff to get out to Mammoth again. Skiing with Thomas and Trish and the Lamperts.

So many interruptions. More items to get done than can do...

15 to 18 inches of fresh snow up there and we plan to be on the road today by 3. So why do so many new people need my time to wine about this stuff.


Fish Wish if for Calm to descend on me as we gain altitude to the mountains.

Keith <"><

Mammoth again Skiing

First Week of January skiing trip. Nice way to start the new year. A terrific Ski Vacation with family.

Mammoth Mountain is a good destination. Especially with 4 of us. Have to drive there. Flying somewhere with kids is a pricey extravagance. Going skiing is an extravagance on it's own. So we Drive for 6 hours. This can be hard on the nerves.

Did ski our buts off. I skied each of the three days we were there.

Day One was a blast with Ryan. We skied mightily. From top to bottom in fast runs all day. The photo is Exemplary of how this first day with for us. We are on our way to the top in the gondola. Hoot!

Day Two was me and Thomas to ski slowly on the lower stuff as Thomas is rebuilding his Snowboard skills. (Trish was with Ryan at the med clinic as a sickness made its round of Ryan then Trish then even Thomas)

On Day 3 I took a spill on the bottom 1/3rd of Cornice. Turned into a bit of a "Yard Sale." Both my skis came off and I got a bunch of snow in my pants. Got some cheers from those that saw the show. I was being very aggressive on the hill at the end of the day on tired legs and crossed a tip. So down I went. After a bit of a skid I flipped myself over and dug in my toes to stop my decent. ( I did mention it was a steep hill ) then looked up to see both my skis about 70 feet above me. No problem. Started to climb up for them... A nice snowboarder came over and cut the trek up the slope in half. She had a complement on the crash. Heard me coming and looked up to see the whole thing. LOL Big grin for her. I was cutting a nice line before I came apart. So I was not embarrassed. It was a reasonably soft landing and nothing hurt. So All is Good.

I had to build a shelf to put my skis on. Then skiied the last of that top section with happy gusto. Then had a good rest. That is when I evaluated just how much snow got in. This cooled me off for the run down to the bottom and a needed rest to get a beer.

More photos are on the Web Shots page I have for family to see. (email for link)

Keith


PS we had a very good condo at Horizons4
This made the time being IN very comfortable.


PPS I eventually came down with the gastronomic thing about 2 hours after getting the car into the driveway at home... It hit me too. It took us down 4 for 4. Sorta a Montezuma revenge type of thing.

Happy New Year's - 20 10

Welcome to twenty ten!

We all say good by to 2009 with a relief of having gotten it behind us.

The new year had a very good start for me as it was rung in with a dinner out with a little dancing and even watching some of the fireworks in MDR at midnight.

With Optimistic and Resilient attitude I welcome the new year. Looking forward to 2010.

Keith

New Year's Eve Golf

Happy New Tradition...

Finish the old year with a round of Golf!

Thanks to my brother Carl for calling and suggesting this. What a terrific day on the green park with all those silly flags. We took a LONG WALK out in the green and lush Los Angeles countryside. (Uptown)

It was great. Those greens at the country club are killer even with the help of a caddy to give you a read. After playing all the city public courses your not ready for the FAST roll on the really professionally maintained private courses.

But it was fun. And I got my buddy Jeffery to tag along with us. It was a good Guys Day Out for me. Good for the heart and soul.

No wonder Trisha's brother is always out playing golf. Over Christmas I heard about how he plays 27 holes of golf 3 to 5 days a week or more!

Thank you Carl. Thanks for your company Jeff.

Loved the day with both of you.

Keith

A very 'In-laws' Christmas

Ho ho ho

We had a good time. Mostly with my wife's side of the family.
It was a good simple homestead Christmas filled with helpful hands of Trisha's brother and sister. This made Trish very happy. It was good and warm hearted.

Thomas got the item he really wanted from Santa. How that happened I do not know. ;-)



We all got to share some grins and basically had plenty of good meals at the family dinning table. Very pleasant.

Hope you all found the joy this holiday.

Keith

Merry Christmas

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Fox on the Golf Course.

I played a little golf yesterday at Penmar. It is a local City of LA 9 hole course.



We were very pleasantly surprised to see a fox sitting by the first green. He successfully staked out a squirrel hole. Very cool that such wildlife is able to thrive in the city.

BTW a special Thank You, shout out to my buddy Jeffery, who called and got me to come out and play. We had some fun and it got me out of a dreadful funk from work and stresses of the holidays etc.

And at the end of it we went to see the new movie Avatar on the big 3D IMax screen. Thomas and I loved it. Jeffery thinks it will be a big cultural event like Titanic was not so long ago. Or a big event like "Gone with the Wind" when it gets to the Oscars etc.

K

Happy Holidays

Here in our area we have some cool holiday traditions. There is a Boat Parade out in the Marina Del Rey harbor that is fun. But at night hard to get a lot of good photos. It was cold and raining. And Trish and I were a little under the weather ourselves. So we missed it. Our friend were out in it and won some nice prizes. congrats to Keith Guyot and the "La Vouca Reys".(sp?)

In Venice on the canals there is a similar parade but on the smaller scale boats.

Here are some photos to share. ( Thanks to YoVenice.com )

Bla bla bla - stuff this past 2 weeks

Have not been out on the boat since Thanksgiving day.

I did get the first strand of the Xmas lights up. (last weekend)
We did get a Tree and have it ready to bring into the house.
Thomas did have a Flag Football playoff game. (Thurs)
MDRAnglers did have it's holiday party and meeting. (Weds)

MDRA was interesting. I did win the raffle. I was elected to the Board of Directors of the club. Now I am struggling with whether or not to toss my hat in the ring for the president position.

Enough about that... I need to stop and get back to work.

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