Arctic Blast

so, yeah, it's been snowy in portland. some video footy from myself and he who shall remain nameless snowboarding 32nd and freemont. good times.

Total Slacker

so, i really have been busy. since my last post, i've travelled to hong kong, taiwan and austria, each for work. below are pics from those trips...

hong kong/tainan

view from my hong kong hotel room, kowloon


interesting sineage in my room

drinks on hong kong harbor

same view about an hour later

chinese propaganda statue in the hotel

random street scene, kowloon

this is the only shot from tainan that was worth posting....so glad i didn't have to drop a deuce

austria

we spent half a day in salzburg

i wish i had bought this shirt

castle on the hill above the town

sculpture of dude that we dubbed barack obama standing on a giant gold globe

view from the hill

guard tower with castle in the background


off to kaprun, the view from my hotel room

jetlag got me up early, so i went out to take a few pics

town church in the early morning

same church

castle just outside kaprun

not much snow on the mountain, but still scenic

kooky swiss

self portrait on the t-bar, that's it

mounting the middle sister (almost)

the intent was to reach the summit of the middle sister. not everyone made it.

starting point

daniel and sydney at the first creek crossing. next time i'll have packs for my dogs too.

look at my face, way too much crap in my bag. turns out my old boots weren't going to do me any favors either. i'm home and the boots are in the trash

lobo

view on the way up, broken top

about halfway up to the camping spot, dogs already finding shade, my feet already hurting

not a bad place to make camp

all set up and ready for the canadian whiskey

dusk at the camp

illegal (but very careful and safe) campfire, but the dogs were wet and it was damn cold

dawn

middle sister peak at sunrise

here's why i couldn't summit. it was hard enough just getting back down

south sister

north sister

zola back down at the lower creak crossing

SatSun

saturday started by taking the dogs to the river

we got the dogs posted on a log, but they wouldn't all pose at the same time

tired dogs on the way home

later that evening, it was chris and i off to a pig roast/ultimate fighting viewing at carlos' place. poor little guy, but yum!

still later that evening, me getting in the supernova spirit

then supernova rocked our asses

jen and danny at the show

then, for the main event, seaweed rocked our asses even harder


sunday, boat day

the water was too choppy to wakeboard, so we just cruised around. big barge 'o mushed cars

probably one of the most photographed objects in portland, but from a water view

then we stopped at this giant monitor(lie) and played a little asteroids(lie) as we floated about(true!)

not a half bad day to be on the river

me, marcy and kim

shot of janus getting the closing shot