Egypt Lake

So ... I have information that may be of interest. I completed my first over night ski trip in the wild! I'm still new to this whole blog thing as evidenced by the dismal number of posts that I have done but I will try my best to recount this incredible adventure in full.

So I went with two friends to Egypt Lake which is just west of Sunshine Ski Resort through Healy Pass. It was about a 12km trek so it really should have been easy but we didn't really rent the most ideal skis for the trip so that's really what made it an adventure. The problem with our skis were as follows. Normally for these kinds of trips where you are climbing alot of hills you need to have skins which make it very hard for you to slip back, regretably we did not have these skins I guess we thought we were true mountain men or something at any rate the skins were not used. We also should have had what are called alpine skis which are alot wider and have hard boots that you can lock down at the heel for going down hills (similar to normal down hill skis) we did not have these kind of skis. We elected to go with the cheaper but flimsier "light terrain" skis which are essentially cross-country skis with a little support around the heel and with metal edges. They are very difficult to go down hills with especially hills laden with tons of powder which is what we encountered. To put it in prespective if you have alpine skis with skins you can do the trip that we did in a day. Hey if you really pushed yourself hard you could do maybe even in half a day. However, because we had our skinless "light-terrain" skis it took us two days skiing basically from sun up to sun down and we did have to do a stretch in the dark that was really exciting.

So equipment deficiencies aside the trip was really really really exciting. There's something about going through mountains in winter that is just absolutely astounding. To illustrate this I am going to post quite a few pictures I hope you enjoy them and I seriously recommend we try doing a trip like this some time. Hopefully the pictures capture the beauty of the untamed Rockies as well as the exhausting nature of having to climb those hills with the wrong kind of skis. Live and learn I suppose, live and learn!

yea for sure

yea i hate nemuro too. i was also a little shaken when it tried to download something on my roomates computer, although shaun warned me before i clicked on it. i was over at Puentes and caleb said, 'auntie!!!' Elder Schneider asked what words they are saying right now and i am happy to report that is one of them! Yesterday Shaun met them. I told him Julian is the one with more hair, but guess what happened??? They gave him a haircut!! It's all cut off!! He is adorable and looks more like a boy. I love those guys.

I hate nemuro

Hey I was just reading Lindsay's lastest post and went into the comments. I wasn't really paying attention and read the comment "see HERE" from our intruding contributer - nemuro. I clicked on the "here" and it took me to a web page that started to download something onto my computer.
I quickly shut the page down and our computer seems to be working alright but that was kind of scary considering the savage nature of some computer viruses out there. Who is nemureo - this pirate of the internet and what does he/she want with us??? It's as though this blog is our little "American family Schneider" island and we need to pull together to defend against this attack. Perhaps woozie could somehow make us a tiger trap and then we could feed the pirate to the tiger.

USC vs Mexico

I know which sandwich place we'll try next time we're in Seattle, Char! We got a little taste of Mexican culture this weekend- we watched their women's national soccer team play USC and it was so fun! We cheered for, guess who? Me-hi-ko!!! Beej, you would be so proud. Viva Mexico!

It was pretty thrilling to see them running around in their red socks and to hear all the fans going crazy. The game was at the LA coliseum, a newly acquired venue for USC games. Although Shaun is a trojan he was born in Mexico City, so it was only natural that we cheer for his country. Allegiance goes first to your place of birth, no?

Well it turns out that we made the right choice!

Hey Seattle Schneiders - just saw this on the web and wondered if any of you have had the pleasure.

Cuban Meat Sandwich

Paseo, Seattle

No place in Seattle could care less whether you come in than Paseo. The shoe-box shack has no sign, takes no credit. Has so few seats that devotees eat outside on the trunks of their cars. What keeps them returning? The milagro that is the Cuban meat sandwich: marinated, slow-cooked pork ganged into a baguette slathered with garlicky mayonnaise, then mounded again with cilantro, jalapeños, and fat O’s of caramelized onions. Seattle’s a long way from Cuba, but this sandwich erases every mile. (4225 Fremont Avenue North)

Happy Valentines

Happy Valentines Hugs to all of you! We couldn't ask for a better group of people to claim as our own! We love you - Nana and Gramps

skiing!

i've been trying to go skiing as much as possible lately. despite my efforts, i've still only managed to go twice! both times were really fun though. the second time, there was tons of new snow. i'm really looking forward to this long weekend- the redds, mom, beej and i are going skiing in the rockies! i can't wait to ski on some "real" snow. sometime before the season ends i also really want to try snowboarding. i've actually never done it before!