Saturday November 26th, 2005 Welch Village

Snow & Weather: not bad man-made 29 degrees

Vertical Feet & Runs: 6,040 ft 18 runs

Comments: Rode with Glen, DBD, Josh, Pete, Nate, Greg, Jack, and Brian. Where da ladies at? No ladies representin on first day.

It was first day of the season for me. Snow was pretty decent. Harleys, Look-Out and beginner area open. Rode mostly Harleys and a little Look-Out.

Had a bunch of beers after ridin, it was cool to see whole crew back for tha season.

We all went to King's and Glen got a double Batter-Up. Holy meat Batman!

sorry no photo today

Saturday December 3rd, 2005 Welch Village

Snow & Weather: 19 degrees Fresh Snow!

Vertical Feet & Runs: 5,850 ft 17 runs

Comments: Rode with Vicki, Greg, Glen, Pope, DBD, Roley, and Christina.

It snowed all day. Not a lot of accumulation but it was a totally Rad day! I think everyone is ready for Lutsen next weekend. Glen was looking good in some off-piste stuff on Dans. We ripped Dans most of the day. My knee hurts cuz I fell in a rock pile and Vicki saw it. Vicki was looking solid. She will rip in Steamboat. It was awesome to see Greg again. We all went to First Descent las night. Great movie!

Me, Pope, Greg, Glen and Vicki all went to King's

Saturday December 10th, 2005 Lutsen

Snow & Weather: 25 degrees 3 inches new snow

Vertical feet& runs: ??? (estimate) 10,000 ft. me dumbass forgot watch

Comments: Had a hella good time. Great snow we partied way too hard the night before. DBD said I have a "blanus" We all ripped today!

Disclaimer: The following are transcripts of guest comments and do not necesarily reflect my views or oppinions.

Pope: "Me drinky drunk. Me saw ____. Big funny nose. We tore it up. Now I smell like coast soap. Snowboarding is fun stuff."

Glen: "It was a ___jitsu that Pope saw, confirmed by pink belt. I snowboard 1.5 days with a broken hip. It was Awesome!! We also rode freshies on Moose!! Heather was the hero of the day, way to hoard the beer and suffer through the frat boy shoosh bags crap."

Roley: "I like snowboarding is good all the happy time for fun on the mountain. I like Matt. He make jokey fun time. Weather channel is Butt hole dummies. ___ are A OK with me."

Heather: "So I did a little snowboarding and then I did a little drinking. I heart my new Feelgood ES and my new Ions and Cartels. I owned the mountain until I had 2 beers @ the chalet then I became "2 beer Heather" and it all fell apart. The best time was making out w/Pope in the Gondola when it stalled for 20 minutes. The best part so far was lickin my fingers and bitch slapping Matt's ass till my hand hurt. Papa Charlies earlier today was a lot of fun. I feel like I have finally found a cool group of cats that like to whoop it up and shred. All are my new BFFs. I think I will go to Claires on Monday and get a BFF necklace for everyone to share with me. Kisses and hugs, I heart U diary, Heart Heather"

Josh: "Captain Noseroll strikes again!!!!"

Kevin: "Matt wasn't flamin to bad today but complained of sore ass this morn. Josh's 156 BMC rocks!"

Terra: "Riding today was almost as sweet as Heather slapping Matt's bare ass. Holla!"

Al: "I fell down while you were filming me. I hope got the shot of me throwing the single deuce. I rode good."

Vicki: "First half of today was excellent, second half after the beer was a little tougher. Riding was great today but it cant top the entertainment Matt provided us last night. Oh and I learned that I'm way too nieve around Matt. He drank the entire way up to Lutsen and I thought he was just rehydrating with his Gatorade. I figured it out when we stepped out of the car in Lutsen and Matt was slurring and stumbling."

Christina: "Overall definately an ass-slapping good time! Snow was fast! Me too! The snow outlasted me, I warmed up with my prissy Baileys & Hot Chocolate. If I could beat Heather up I would so I could steal her ES. Keep working on Manual!"

Nancy: "I rode the best ever today!! Pretty sure I will be able to keep up with the gang but I know my limits and will never be able to keep up with the drinking! Had a blast."

Darren: "The Baron ES rides sweet and looks AWESOME! Great crew and a ton of party fun. I'm surprised Matt could sit today. I could party and ride with this crew everyday and never get tired of it. This is an awesome first trip of the season!!"

Sunday December 11th, 2005 Lutsen

Snow & Weather: Nice snow but hard. VERY COLD!

Vertical feet & runs: ??? (estimate) 4,000 ft

Comments: We all a little sluggish and hung over today. Rode with Glen, Pope, Kevin, DBD, Josh, Terra, Vicki, Christina, and Nancy.

We stayed on Eagle Mt did mostly Bridge Run. Also had fun on steep Upper KooKoo. I crashed very hard.

We all left for home around 2:00pm.

No photo today but just see prior day but X out the wuss Roley, Al, and Heather.

Roley said he had a cold but Pope thinks it was 23 beers.

Sunday December 18th, 2005 Welch Village

Snow & Weather: Great Snow but F*ckin Cold 7 degrees

Vertical feet & runs: 7,100 ft 20 runs

Comments: Rode with Josh, Glen and Pete.

It was great snow but super-cold. Glen tried to wuss out but Josh pulled the B-Day card and made him go. Happy B-Day Josh! It was a lot of fun ridin. We had most of the hill to ourselves in the afternoon. Pete is awesome to ride with. I found a new snowboard song that is fun to rip to. The Curse by Audioslave.

We met up with Brian, Jack and 2 of Brian's kids, Mary, her husband and son at King's. One of Brian's kids knocked off a snowmobile helmet and broke the shield. The guy was an asshole but Brian gave him $20 and a little piece of his mind. It mad the guy look like a jerk without Brian looking like a jerk.

Sorry no photo today my camera is broken.

Saturday December 24th, 2005 Welch Village

Snow and Weather: 35 degrees and soft snow

Vertical feet & runs: 3,570 ft 11 runs

Comments: Rode with Josh, Pete, Greg, Glen, Jack, and Roley.

Merry Freakin X-Mas! We had a super fun day. Rode hard and fast then met up with Heather and her friend and Brian at Mad Jax and drank many buckets of beer.

Josh brought the dogs and they had a blast (Hope Nancy doesn't read this cuz she would be mad) Gave Pete a blow up Gopher! He loved it!

Josh and I rode tripped home to parents for X-Mas. Stopped by Miller's to drop off gift and write my name in the snow.

Great time playing games except I barfed on pumpkin pie soda.

Peace on Earth and goodwill towards Matt!

Friday December 30th, 2005 Welch Village

Snow & weather: 35 degrees 6 inches of new snow

Vertical feet & runs: 6,320 ft 20 runs

Comments: Rode with Glen and Vicki.

6 inches of fresh snow but it was wet and heavy. It was still a lot of fun. We rode a lot of sluff on sides of run. Both Vicki and Glen lookin good. I think they are ready for Steamboat.

Glen sent me into the pit of death and I crashed so hard I got a bloody nose.

Glen and I went to Grumpys for beer and burger

Saturday January 7th, 2006 Welch Village

Snow & weather: 36 degrees corn-snow, spring conditions SUNNY YEAH!

Vertical feet & runs: 4,310 ft 11 runs

Comments: Rode with Glen, Josh, Nancy, Cuz Jeff, and Keyshawn.

Rode early morning with Jeff and Glen. Mushy spring-like conditions. Welch was packed with a ton of shoosh bag racers. They raced on Dans and Bakk.

Met my Mom, Kay, Wendy, Heather, Grace and Keshawn at noon. Josh and I gave Keshawn a lesson. He really enjoyed but is the typical 8 year old boy Kamikaze. Josh said Keshawn collided with a little girl and they both cried.

Went to Wild game after with Fredo, Nicki, and Julio. It was fun. Gonna ride again tomorrow.

Sunday January 8th, 2006 Welch Village

Snow & weather: 32 degrees back to cloudy. corn-snow and ice

Vertical feet & runs: 5,430 ft 17 runs

Comments: Rode with Glen, Cuz Jeff, Roley, Josh, Nate, and Pete.

Myself, Glen and Jeff all sucked at riding. Glen gave himself a B- for a grade but I would give him a C-. Cuz Jeff gets a D. I give myself and A+ just because I am hot! Just kidding, I get a C+.

We met up with Josh, Nate, and Pete in the afternoon. I saw Glen fall on Chicken and slide about 40 ft. He looked like a kitty kat clawing the snow. MEOW!

They groomed Dans about 3:00pm and we were acting like it was first tracks in pow. No one waited for anybody, it was like a race to see who could get the most turns in fresh courdoroy. What a bunch of dorks!

Some old dude who took our photo was lookin for some cute boys. We thought about offering him Nate.

Ate my last fat-burger at King's for a while.

Saturday January 14th, 2006 Welch Village

Snow & weather: 36 degrees soft corn-snow

Vertical feet & runs: 7,610 23 runs

Comments: Rode with Glen, Vicki, Greg, Jessic (Greg's blonde friend).

Glen, Vicki, and myself did the "Welch Tour". We rode all the major runs. It took 4 hours. I rode Rock-Face and totally sucked at it. Glen and Vicki lookin good on steeps (but not as good as me). I rock!

Met up with Greg, and his friend Jessica. She dropped her Ipod and lost it. (why she didnt stop? I don't know.)

Greg's sucky K2 totally de-lammed. What a piece of crap.

Off to ANTHRAX!

Sunday January 15th, 2006 Welch Village

Snow & weather: 38 degrees mushy- where da f*ck is winter?

Vertical feet & runs: 6,000 ft 17 runs

Comments: Rode DBD, Glen, Roley, Terra and Heather.

Pretty simple day and don't feel like writing a lot. So here is the break down:

-Sparks
-Ride
-Sparks
-Ride
-Sparks and buckets

Peace Out

Saturday January 21st, 2006 Welch Village

Snow & weather: Great snow! 34 degrees

Vertical feet & runs: 2,750 ft 9 runs

Comments: Josh and I planned on taking Keshawn riding today. We were driving down to Welch and Josh started to projectile exorcist type vomit as we were driving. It was so gross and smelled nasty. Keyshawn and I almost threw up too.

So we pulled over at a truck stop. Keyshawn and I played video games and Josh cleaned the car. Mike drove the car to us and Keyshawn and I continued to Welch. Josh went home.

We had a good time ridin. Keyshawn was getting a little better. He collided with a teenage girl and she almost smothered him. Nobody cried. We rode most of Welch's green runs. He still needs to work on the turns a little more. Hope he gets to ride at least a couple more times before end of the season.

Sunday January 22nd, 2006 Welch Village

Snow & weather: Nice snow. 27 degress 13 degrees at night

Vertical feet & runs: 10,060 ft 29 runs

Comments: Rode with Josh (yes he made his triumphant return after puke day) Nate and Roley.

Welch was very empty. I rode the first 8 runs of the day switch and I suck. I will try again. Roley killed it switch. Josh lookin great on Ski-Bob. We rode a lot today.

Roley quit about 45 minutes before the rest of us cuz he was cold. I think he drank a bucket o beer himself in the 45 minutes. Roley and I went to Black Stallion on way home. It was a cool place and they welcomed us (not like BRRRAAAINS). Sean was gettin way drunk so we left so we didn't wear out our welcome.

What a jerk he puked all over in my car and himself. What's up with the "Weekend of Vomit?" Sean is gonna be in big trouble with Tracy.

Saturday January 28th, 2006 Welch Village

Snow & weather: mushy crap rain. 38 degrees WTF???????

Vertical feet & runs: 5,930 ft 13 runs

Comments: Rode with Vicki and met up with Cuz Jeff later.

Snow sucked, it was warm and rained on us. Yes I said rain on Jan 28th.

Summit Brewery had a medallion hunt. We weren't gonna participate but got caught up in the excitement and played along. Two old skier bitches found the medallion. They found it 20 minutes into search but didn't tell anyone for 3 hours while all the dumb asses kept looking. I say wayt to go cool old ladies.

Tuesday January 31st, 2006 Buckhill

Snow & weather: 36 degrees. rainy, crappy snow seriously WTF??????

Vertical feet & runs: 4,680 ft 18 runs

Comments: Rode with Glen, Jack, Vicki, and Terra.

I met Terra around 5:15pm and we rode for 1/2 hour then met up with Vicki and rode 20 minutes. Then met Glen and Jack. They were at Welch all day. Jack gave Terra & Vicki some lessons on steeps.

Glen and I rode, he smelled like beer.

Met Mike and Ed for dinner at resort bar.

Buckhill blows! Probally won't go back again this year.

Sorry no photo but next time because my camera will be out of the shop

Saturday February 4th, 2006 Welch Village

Snow & weather: Nice Snow! Cold 17 degrees.

Vertical feet & runs: 10,140 ft 30 runs

Comments: Rode with Vicki to start. She wasn't gonna ride but I twisted her arm.

We did another tour of Welch, it was great.

Met up with Josh, Nancy, DBD, and Christina. They thought we were snobs cuz we didn't wait for them or ride same runs. We just wanted to finish the tour.

Vicki sucked the first time down Skinny Duds but instead of moving to next run she wanted to do it again. She ripped the 2nd time.

Finally we met up with the other yahoos and rode a little. Then had a mounds bar hot beverage. UM UM.

Probably won't ride again until Steamboat. Bring on the Freshies!

Thursday February 23rd, 2006 Steamboat CO

Snow & weather: Packed Pow! 33 degrees

Vertical feet & runs: 14,980 ft 11 runs

Comments: Rode with Glen, Jack, Roley, Al, Terra, Vicki, DBD, and Christina.

First time at Steamboat. Terra's da bomb. I am so glad she invited us. Her uncle's place is amazing.

After first run I was nervous because I was in a lot of pain (f*ckin Kevin). The ankle finally loosened up. We rode some fun stuff. DBD and I did Christmas Tree Bowl before Jack(what a wimp). Then I did a really scary chute with Jack and Roley.

My favorite quote of the day: Christina said, "I keep burping up Glen's pickle."

Guest commentary:

Vicki: Today was a great first day. I was super nervous before the first run (I haven't felt my heart beat that fast in a long time) mostly because I was nervous about how my knee would hold up but all was well so I can't wait for tomorrow. I drank too many beers at happy hour and am now ready to pass out for the night

Christina: So, we had this great "plan" to ride together-Plan only! I followed Glenni, we were lost. Hooked up to ride backside- AWESOME TREES & SNOW! Then I got Glenni pickle UMM. Widmer Bros. made everything worth the great day of riding! Looking forward to tomorrow!

Roley: I hated getting split up from the group after run #1 but was super happy to end the day reunited with Matt to do the hardest run chute #3. I love this group of people and love the fun we have. I made an imprint of my butt and my cock & balls in the snow bank by the hot tub. I gave Matt a butthole bedeaux by clogging the hot tub jet. I love snowboarding. Where Pope?

Friday February 24th, 2006 Steamboat CO

Snow & weather: Packed Pow. 36 degrees. Bluebird

Vertical feet & runs: 9,480 ft 8 runs

Comments: Rode with Glen, Roley, Jack, Vicki, Christina, and DBD.

Great day #2 at Steamboat but my legs were tired. Christina did a double black diamond! She rocks! Check out the photo.

Guest commentary:

Christina: My first double black! WooHoo! Thanks Jack and Matty!

Check out the attached happy hour receipt in the journals hard copy. It may help explain photo.

Saturday February 25th, 2006 Steamboat CO

Snow & weather: mushy. some pillows in trees. 36 degrees

Vertical feet & runs: 14,200 ft 10 runs

Comments: Rode with Scott (AASI National guy), Glen, Vicki, DBD, Roley, Jack, Christina, and Terra.

Scott rocked! He taught us some tree runs. They were hella awesome! I can't wait to ride tomorrow. 95% of today in da trees. I love this group. Jack spring loaded a tree branch and got whapped in the face and cut his nose. What a dumbass. I guess I am the only one who knows how to fight a tree and win. Glen mounted his bindings wrong and rode like 3 runs and cried about how his ankle hurt. The bindings were both facing to the back of the board. HE HE. Sorry Glen but it was too funny.

Guest commentary:

Christina: Matt cart-wheeled over an aspen. What else can I say. I loved riding trees today! Watch out I may be a tough bitch if I keep this up.

Sunday February 26th, 2006 Steamboat CO

Snow & weather: mushy. 38 degrees

Vertical feet & runs: 10,690 ft 10 runs

Comments:

Rode with Scott, Jack, DBD, Christina, Vicki, Glen, and Roley.

We rode trees again today. This place is fun. Glen & Vicki went back early. DBD, Roley, Christina and myself stayed and rode with Scott. We all got very tired and finished around 3:00pm. Christina fought a tree and lost. Bye Bye Steamboat.

Guest commentary:

Christina: Hit big tree. Ouch! That will take it out of ya. Matty pushed on through despite leftover legs. Riding with Scott from AASI has been Great! Looking forward to next trip and next beer.

Sorry no Jack or Scott in todays photo.

Saturday March 11th, 2006 Welch Village

Snow & weather: 51 degrees. Mash Potatoes

Vertical feet & runs: 6,410 ft 17 runs

Comments:

Rode with Heather, Brian, DBD, Christina, Terra, Josh, Glen, Roley, Chris, Greg, and Cuz Jeff.

Heather and I came down early to grab a spot for the Welch BBQ. It looked like we were going to X-fest camping with all the stuff we had. We drank a lot. Grilled some food. Rode some. Played snow dice. I traded my teammate Heather like she was Danute Culpepper.

Josh showed up when we were gonna leave. DBD rode a Terras board in tennis shoes for $20 then he doubled it by doing another run and taking a jump.

Brian almost got his truck stuck in the mud.

Heather rifled a lawn dice into some little kids face. (one of the reasons for the trade) Roley smacked his face doing a fun-box. It must have made him really drunk.

We went to Brian and Heather's after and played some Fusion Frenzy.

See ya next year Welch.

Sorry Chris isn't in the photo.

Monday March 13th, 2006 Welch Village

Snow & weather: 30 degrees. 16 inches of FRESH POW! BIG MONDAY!

Vertical feet & runs: 6,310 ft 19 runs

Comments:

Rode with Roley, Glen, and Kevin.

I guess Saturday wasn't my last day at Welch. WOW! Who knew I would get one more day at Welch this year and it would be with over a foot of fresh.

I saw forecast on Sunday afternoon. Rallied the troops and set off to Red Wing to stay in hotel and beat the storm. Sven from channel 11 news said we would only get 1"-3". What a dumb ass. I woke up at 7:00am to white-out conditions. We barely made it out of parking lot. Thanks for pushing Glen and Kevin.

We started to drive on Hwy 61 only to have a kick to the nuts. The Hwy was closed due to some jackass semi driver jack knifed his rig. Went back to Red Wing Perkins and was so bummed envisioning all the people eating up my Freshies. We ate breakfast and the manager told us of another way to Welch.

After debating for quite sometime, we decided to go for it. HOLY CRAP! It was on of the scariest drives I have ever done. We saw tons of cars in ditches. We came across a mini van taxi with a somali driver in the middle of BFE. We tried to push him out but it was no use, he was buried to deep.

We marched on with ZERO VISIBILITY. We finally got to Welch around 1:45pm and to our surprise they didn't even open until 1:15pm due to a power outage and there was only a handful of people there.

It was a mad dash to the lift. "No friends on Powder Day" rule was totally in effect. The snow was so deep I was getting "face shots". You could find untracked Freshies for about the first hour. It was so great. Glen and Kevin did good in da pow.

After about an hour, Roley and I went looking for more untracked pow and found a huge powder stash skiers left of the half-pipe. We were total powder pigs (oink oink) untile it was all gone.

Roley and I then poached an un-tracked lift-line. We had one of the best runs of the day on that run. We got yelled at by Ski Patrol. Once we did lift line, it was like opening the flood gates. Everyone started hitting that run.

Sean and I started a new sub-division of the BFGSC. The FFPPs Flamin Freshie Pow Pows. How bad ass is that!

Eeeeeeaaaaast side was closed but for the grand finale last run of the season at Welch we hiked over to Pete's and did an untracked Pete's. Best run EVER for me in midwest. Best day ever in midwest and top 10 of all time for sure, maybe even top 5.

See ya next year Welch.

Sunday March 19th, 2006 Welch Village

Snow & weather: 36 degrees. Great snow from 26 inches over the week.

Vertical feet & runs: 7,100 ft 20 runs

Comments:

Rode with Glen, Cuz Jeff, Pope, Jack, Chris, and Terra.

Ok this my for sure last time at Welch for the season.

It was great snow with 26 inches of fresh over the last week. Tree-Face was open for the first time that I have seen. The first 3 turns were cool then all of a sudden there was no snow.

We met Cindy right as we were leaving. We all went to King's.

Ps Where was Heather???? She said she was gonna hit it wit us.

Sorry Chris didn't make the photo again. Really there is a guy named Chris.

See ya next year Welch and King's.

Friday March 24th, 2006 Whitecap Mountain

Snow & Weather: new snow 6 inches ?? 36 degrees

Vertical feet & runs: 8,250 feet 25 runs

Comments: Rode with Glen, Heather, Brian, Cuz Jeff, Jack, DBD, and Mark (Indianhead instructor)

Whitecap was a pleasant surprise. The terrain was a lot of fun. A little hung-over but I fought through it. We found lots of Freshies and tree runs. How cool is that!

I cart-wheeled in front of everyone trying to show off in some Pow and got snow down my bum.

Jack's snowboard instructor friend called me an Elf. WTF? He is lucky I didn't dust him and turn him into a snowman.

Jack is sooooo fat! How fat is he? He is so fat he derailed the cable on the chair lift. (I guess I may have helped as well) We also rode a wooden chair made of latice. Crazy!

Got some cool photos from the day. Brian dropping a pretty big rock and some cool action shots of DBD.

After riding we went to the little bar next to the house where we are staying. We got to bar at 5:00pm and went to do a 1 beer re-con mission that turned into 8 hours of drinking. After the first beer was soooooooo cheap Jack said we would end up staying until close. I didn't believe him but he was totally right. DBD was called a tourist ass. Too funny!

Brian did flips on command into the snowbank on walk home and he also threw the frozen pizza that Glen bought him like a frisbee.

Then we went home and I did some nude wrestling with B-hole. I had to quit because I was gettin a woody.

These guys are the mostest fun ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guest commentary:

DBD: Whitecap was great!! Fresh snow and tons of great trees and terrain. Did my first real drop. About 4 feet I think now I'm hooked. Debauchery to no end when we got off slopes.

Brian: I woke up on the next morning with sand in my shoes, my underwear on floor in the living room, a busted lip, a torn up shoulder, cuts on my face and I guess I threw a pizza. ahhhhh Matt I love you!

Greg: I was soooo sick. Drove up with Chris. Can't wait for Sat. Brian crawled into bed with Chris (top bunk), fell out, bounced off other bed, across to my bunk, hit nuts, crawled out to stairs and fell down those too. Quite funny!

Glen: Had a blast at Whitecap! There was fresh Pow Pow from the day before. I did some more trees, I think I'm hooked. Went to JJ's Bar in snow pants and didn't leave for 8 hours. Stupid drunk!

Cuz Jeff: Whitecap was awesome! There was nobody there and great snow. We had fresh pow and courdoroy all day. Partied at JJ's next to the house and Brian tried starting fights with the locals. This group rocks!

Saturday March 25th, 2006 Blackjack Mountain

Snow & Weather: 39 degrees Bluebird Mushy

Vertical feet & runs: 6,460 feet 14 runs

Comments: Rode with Chris, Glen, Greg, DBD, Jack, Brian, Heather and Cuz Jeff.

Blackjack was pretty cool. Better than Indianhead but not as cool as Whitecap. Jack got yelled at by Ski Patrol. What kind of AASI example is that.

Jack wants to give me lesson to try to move to the next level. I agreed but only if instead of using the word torsional flex he calls it Meow Meow.

We had Chris give us a ride to Hurley. They have 27 bars on one street. It is a ruckus town. Heather, Brian, DBD and myself endend up at this bar called Horses Coral. Apparently it was Coyote Ugly night. Every 30 minutes tornado sirens would go off and all the bartender ladies would start shoving free shots down your throat. and if you were lucky or not lucky depending on your taste they would sit on your face. By the end of the night the entire bar would run around like little baby birds trying to be fed by momma bird whenever they would here the siren. I guess Pavlov knows what he is talking about.

Crazy local guy game into our house after-bar and wouldnt leave until 5:00 am. So Jeff and I drank with him until 5:00 am. (Bad move) He thought Cuz Jeff was a hit-man.

Here are everyone's new monikers:

Glen- Baby Shark
Cuz Jeff- VLAD
Brian- Playgirl
Heather- Lazy Princess
DBD- Lou Ferrigno
Jack- Walrus
Greg- Penis Grapes
Matt- Keebler

Sorry I forgot the group photo so I put up a few to try and get most of the group.

Sunday March 26th, 2006 Whitecap Mountain

Snow & Weather: 45 degrees Mash Potatoes Bluebird

Vertical feet & runs: 2,520 feet 7 runs

Comments: Rode with Chris, Greg, Glen, Heather, Brian, Jack, Cuz Jeff, and DBD.

I wasn't gonna ride today cuz I drank til 5:00 am But all the jerks talked me into riding. I rode in jeans and clothes from the night before. I had no business being on a snowboard today. I only did 7 runs then slept in Jack's truck.

Cuz Jeff is a rock star. He partied until 5:00 am then rode all day with the group.

Yeah I finally got Chris in one of the photos.

Monday March 27th, 2006 Granite Peak

Snow & weather: 53 degrees partly cloudy Ice Mush

Vertical feet & runs: 5,540 feet 10 runs

Comments: Rode with Jack, Greg, Glen, Cuz Jeff, Heather, Brian, and DBD.

We got up and cleaned up house, packed and headed out. We drove like 2 1/2 hours to Wausau WI to ride Granite Peak.

The snow was mushy and icy. How does that happen? We all rode kind of mellow since we were all pretty beat. But I think the overall group consensus is "Suck my Granite Peak!" No offense to anyone who likes G.P. It was good to at least give the place a try to make sure we weren't missing anything.

We stopped at some friends of Jack and Brian on way home. Les and Carol. Very cool and awesome people (even though they ski). They were so nice, fed us Chili and beer and they have a beautiful house.

Les set-up Heather and Greg with some crazy 80's ski outfits to wear for last day of year at Lutsen. That will rock.

I hope to get to know them next year at Welch.

Saturday April 15th, 2006 Lutsen

Snow & Weather: Mash Potatoes. 65 degrees

Vertical feet & runs: 8,610 feet 14 runs

Comments: Rode with Roley, Jack, Pope, DBD, Christina, Seth, Seth's mom (forgot her name), Shelly, Greg and Glen*. *I didn't actually get to take any runs with Glen but he was on Mountain as the same time as me.

We stayed at a 3 bedroom 2 bath with a hot tub townhome at Caribou. I wish we could afford this every time we go to Lutsen. It was Big Pimpin.

We all partied at the place on Friday night and a great time. Greg, DBD, Christina, and myself went into the hot tub which is downstairs. Roley was mad because we were in hot tub so he went to bed early. Jack won drunkest of the evening. He was in the living room by himself rockin out to NIN and jumping on floor to try and get us to come upstairs. He was also screaming at the top of his lungs like he was at a NIN show. Too funny!

Riding was pretty decent. Lutsen had a bigger snow pack then I thought they would. The new Moose Mtn chalet is totally cool. It was 65 degrees so a lot of us rode in shorts.

I saw Christina have the crash of the season. She caught a downhill edge and face planted in the snow and then her board flipped up over head the way your back isn't supposed to bend. This is how bad it looked, I didn't even once think about laughing. Poor Christina.

Seth and his mom were riding the chair behind Jack and Greg. Seth threw a snowball at Jack and Greg and hit the back of the chair. Without looking Jack threw up both middle fingers (he would have put up more if he had them). Then he realized who he just flipped off. Oh yeah the funny part is Seth and his mom are mormon. Way to go Jack.

We all went to Papa Charlies and sat out on the deck (which was full of people when we arrived) and had some beers. It took about 20 minutes of our ruckus behavior to have the deck all to ourselves. F*#kin snowboarders!

Seth's mom dropped Shelly off at our townhome. The look on her face was priceless. It looked as if she was dropping Shelly off at the Duke Lacrosse team house. I don't think she was comfortable leaving her with us. I wonder why?

We had easter egg hunt with special miniature bottles of liquor for prizes and cool nerf dart guns.

We played lawn dice then partied while we waited for Pete & Josh. They arrived at 11pm.

We all missed Brian & Heather (losers). So Josh organized a little fund raiser to help them with the cost (even though we shouldn't have because they totally dissed us). DBD was asleep on a chair in living room and we took turns paying $1 to shoot nerf darts at his face and try to stick them to his glasses. What a trooper DBD is.

It was Shelly's 20th B-day and we gave her 20 spanks and a couple of which might make any girl cry (way to go Jack) but she didn't cry.

Taught Greg and Pete how to runway stomp. Greg says I can no longer refer to him as Penis Grapes.

Can't wait to see everyones costumes tomorrow.

Sunday April 16th, 2006 Lutsen

Snow & Weather: Bluebird, Windy, Mushy, Bare and 58 degrees

Vertical feet & runs: 4,900 feet 9 runs

Comments: Rode with DBD, Christina, Shelly, Pope, Jack, Greg, Josh, Pete, and Glen*. * I didn't get to do any runs with Glen again. That was a bummer :(

Happy Freakin Easter! Last day of year at Lutsen and lift tickets were free. We all dressed up except Josh & Pete. Unless you call Josh's hot pants and Pete's retro shirt dressing up. Everyone looked totally AWESOME! It was so much fun to follow the group down and watch the reactions from people on the lifts. We didn't ride that long because we were all pretty tired.

Only 7 months until next season.

End of Season!

I love my snowboard friends! We had a really fun season.

Vertical feet for the season: 205,240 ft

Runs for the season: 450


See ya next year!