7th Heaven

Well, I'm a little bit late with this, but I wanted do a "year in review" post for 2007, as it was a fantastic year full of new things for me... new knee ligament, new town, new home, new friends, new adventures!

My bros came out to visit in January for a look around the Tahoe Sierras.

We stayed a few nights in the Ludlow hut and managed to find some descent snow.

Tim & Jess' Wedding, Jackson, MO! 3 weeks after surgery, and I was doing the 1 legged hop on the dance floor!

On our way from climbing with my friend Aubrey at Smith Rock

Mom came out for a visit, and we toured around Oregon from Bend to Crater Lake, down the Umpqua River to the coast. Nice job camping Mom!

I got up to the British Columbia interior (Kamloops) for a little work and a little play.















Okay, this should have been it's own post, but the next few photos are from our Memorial Day Alaska trip... the first semi-annual "Cooper Landing Ski It If You Can" festival.

Captn Ron and his plane with "Junior" chutes in the background







Base camp for our approach to LV Ray.















"Centerfold" had a 20' + cornice overhanging!













Crescent lake from the top of LV Ray

















Flex capacitors assembled.... let the bushwacking begin

"Young and Dumb" We skied/snowboarded some of the most epic terrain of my life on this trip. On this one, our buddy Chunk took the narrower chute on the right while the rest of us took the wider main chute to the left... yahooooooo!

This is a video of Chunk pulling a flip onto this 50+ degree prone chute... crazy!

Came back from AK all charged up, so my new roomate and old friend Alex went for the South Sister summit on the last weekend that it was skiable continuously from the top. This is my new backyard in the Cascades!

My buddy Jeff and I met up with some friends in Hood River to do some boating on the White Salmon River.

I guess this was a class V waterfall... maybe at higher flows. Anyway, my buddy Jason in the back got tossed into the front row of the boat while cracking Jeff and I unsuspecting in the back of the heads... this is why we wear helmets!

A little camping trip on Hosmer Lake with Mt. Bachelor in the background

For the 4th of July, some old friends in California and I rendezvoused for a backpacking trip in the Sierra's Hoover Wilderness.

I made it back to my old stomping grounds in Fort Collins, CO and just happened to catch a world record bike parade for New Belgium Brewery's "Tour de Fat"











Of course, the trip to visit Ryan in the Dominican was unforgetable....

Anxiously awaiting the snow fall, we took a trip to the coast.

Bridge in Newport, OR













Alas, the snow started to build late November... and it hasn't stopped since!

Broken top mtn on a ski tour.