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  1. haiku has 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. in japanese, there's usually a "season" word in the first line telling you which of the five seasons it is, which i ignore. backcountry magazine has one in every issue.

     

     

     

    Cool crisp winter air

    I spent the day on my butt

    First time snowboarding

     

     

     

    Take off your bindings

    Surf not waves but powder snow!

    Say Yes to the No

     

     

     

    Good friends good weather

    We wear smiles turn after turn

    What else do you need?

  2. Couldn't ask for better skies. We were concerned about the winds slabs down in the snowpack and the wind scour from the northerlies. A day of sunshine and no new snow in the last 24 hours. What better way than to spend Leap Day on the north faces of Happo?

     

    Lap 1

    Friday morning, Kumapix and I went to Skyline to find the top Quad closed. We dropped off the north face.

     

    Kumapix, slash into the sunshine

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    Me:

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    Lap 2:

    We met up with Janus and Paedde (his last day of skiing on his Japan journey), we left one car at the exit and double-backed to the gondola. I've been wanting to get in this area for 3 seasons. Unless otherwise noted, these are Paedde's pic. This needs its own thread while you're on your way to Utah, Paedde.

     

    We topped out, if you look closely, you can see Janus.

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    Let's zoom in to my pic from the pit. I had paedde had rope me up for the quick dig and didn't find anything too make us turn back on such a steep slope, though it was getting late.

    Janus is trying out for a backcountry dot com top page photo

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    I told everyone it was 55 degrees for 150-200 meters.

    I lied: it was 53 degrees.

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    (my pic)

     

    I'm off

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    As soon as I hit the sun, I cartwheeled.

     

    Kumapix

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    Kuma gets the soul shot of the day. Good b/c he's usually the one taking pictures of others

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    Cool. let's see another

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    My shot of Kuma shooting Paedde

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    Everyone else has pictures coming up.

     

    AND HAPPY B-DAY SOCK MONKEY

  3. thanks for the get-well wishes everyone.

     

    went to the hospital in tokyo this morning b/c we don't trust the place i went to on saturday.

    got 3 x-rays, some shippu, a bandage wrap, and pain killers. it's either part of my ACL or my MCL (medial meniscus ligament); will go back and see the sports specialist--the same guy who helped me with my wrist four years ago--on wednesday.

     

    but, the good news is that i'm walking without cruches. what dumb trick to try.

    mr. wiggles said it best at Tracks Saturday nite: "ooooh, terje, one-footing it! ooo!!" u can always count on your SJ buddies to laugh at you when you do some dumbas thing.

     

    Friday's epic TR coming up momentarily

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