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End of weekend recap Dec 18th – Dec 20th, 2009

End of weekend recap Dec 18th – Dec 20th, 2009

So this is a tangent on what i normally do. I figure since my last post was just of the week day, I should have a followup post about the weekend

December 18th – Got dinner at Panera Bread w/Jess – Chicken noodle soup in a sour dough bread bowl, with a beget on the side. Then Starbucks for tea / coffee. Good way to start off a snowboarding weekend. Drove into PDX starting at 7, left PDX around 8:30 with Simon, Chao, Kedy. Stopped by Popeye’s for a second dinner – good stuff! It’s been a while since I’ve stopped at a Popeye’s. I think the last one that I went to was in Troutdale 3-4 years back.

We got into Government camp around 10pm. I found out that Felicia Day commented on my blog post regarding watching the episode of ‘Lie to Me’ with her guest starring. Had to share that point with everyone. Pretty cool!

December 19th – A super rainy start for the day. Most of my gear got soaked through. My core gear was still dry, but the snowboarding pants, crash pads, socks and boots were drenched. Not a fun way to spend a day on the mountain. We found a set of jumps in the Mitchel Creek area and went through those a few times. The rain let up towards the end of the afternoon and we explored the backside of the mountain on Shooting Star and HRM. I crashed pretty good while going down on HRM. I caught the edge of my board and started flipping over, knocked my knee into the snow pretty good. When we got back to the cabin, it really hurt going up and down the stairs. Not a good sign. Took several ibuprofen to help relax things a little, and just hope for the best for Sunday. Stupid knee.

December 20th – The day started out promising. The knee didn’t bother me so much. (yay!) Took two quick runs down the mountain and decided to check out the free MHM demo days — free board demos all day long! Got the Never Summer Circuit-R board 155cm (in white) and the Evo-R for the day. The Circuit-R was really flexible compared to my stiff K2 Zepplin 156. The Circuit-R made for some fun times on the jumps and some nice performance downhill runs. The Evo-R felt a bit loose at times.

We spent some time on the back side of the mountain with the new gear and the Circuit-R board checked out pretty nicely. Last thing we did for the day was hit up the large terrain jump — landed both times, cleared it on my second attempt, piece of cake. We went to the Roadhouse in Gresham for dinner.

Ugh. I got home, unpacked my gear and started the laundry, washed the dishes and cleaned up around the house. So much work to do! The kitchen, 2nd floor bath, floors are good to go. However, the wood floor cleaning product has some really obnoxious fumes. I currently feel lightheaded and I want to vomit . Hopefully all of this airs out by tomorrow so people won’t be inhaling that Monday night. Can’t wait to make dinner for people again!

-T