INHALE EXHALE at ALPENTAL, WA – 04/06/08
Dates:
April 6th-7th, 2008
Location:
Alpental, Snoqualmie Pass, Washington, USA
Weather:
The temps ranged from 21-40 F. Visibility included some mega flat-light coupled with some fog, occasional wet to winter snow, and some glaciated Bluetooth in various parts of the mountain.
Washington Warriors:
666, ZBO, SQ99, girlski0912, Mofro261, Greydon Clark, Schmear, and appearances by Buster Highmen
People who used cameras:
666, Zbo, and Mofro
WELCOME TO ALPENTAL: A short video from your host Zbo
DnB Music: Lynx – ‘Inhale Exhale’
Synopsis: Flat light FUN!!!!!!
I haven’t skied in a while. I have a wife who enjoys getting surgery on her ankle. Luckily for her, I am the world’s greatest nurse. I even let her take me to Seattle. This way I could ski with the PNW crew and tell her all about it afterwards at the hotel. Yep, I’m super nice.
Bumped to First Class…THANK YEWWWWWWW!
Snowbanks were still present on Friday…
Greydon didn’t feel too well. He thought he was just hungover, but as it turned out, he had bronchitis.
On our first run, Zbo fell down a glacier field….so bad that he ripped his Dynafit off his ski…
Zbo decided to ski down on one ski, so I strapped one to my pack. I felt so honored…
What an ATHLETE!!!!
That’s right, HE’S SKIING ON ONE SKI!
After remounting the bindings, we were back on track…666 gets a little close for comfort…
Zbo skis by the only tree at Alpental…
666 gets his first classic Alpental run of the day…
Alpental is fun…
Actually its pretty rad…
…Even in flat light
A quick break to play some Golden Axe on the Wonderswan….
Zbo’s turn…to slay
I think we found a patch of powder…
But when Zbo’s binding came off again… he had this to say:
This guy is so core!
Time to head back to catch the Nirvana concert…
Our hipster hotel…
SQ99 is getting older by the minute…
Space needle in a haystack…
After a long and painful search, we found one of these…
Good thing too, or Sq99 would have turned into his alter ego…
Tunnels are scary….
Best Seattle ski rack system ever!
Getting closer…
I think we’re getting warmer…
Here’s a typical house at Alpental. Notice that the top story is basically buried by the snow…
And the final measurement…..18 feet!
Zbo and I tried to measure in our own way….
Mofro261 is our handsome guide…lucky us!
SQ99 rides a chairlift…
No, really, its 2008!
Girlski0912 making a case for skiing the slopes!
ZBO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SQ99 loves skiing!
666 enjoyed this run….
SQ99 didn’t…
666 POV all day long!
666 hates Alpental…
Its boring.
SQ99 is extremely bored…
So bored with this…
YAWN!!!!!
OK, so our guide Mofro led himself to good snow…
Seriously?
FKNA dude…
SQ99 is up next…
SCHUSSSSSSSSS!
Zbo finds a cliff that wasn’t completely buried…
I told him that the landing would be nice…
666 found a deep spot…of snow!
Mofro found another untracked face for powder 8 practicing…
I guess he makes it look enjoyable….
As a guide, he’s worth every penny. I gave him one.
The group…missing girlski because she skis too fast for us!
At lunch, Zbo thought long and hard of what to eat.
He chose chips.
Zbo makes an off-piste right turn…
666 on yet another pow spine…
666 goes nuclear on the mushroom cloud…
Schmear showed up…
He skis down runs in milliseconds. This was the only shot I could capture.
666 hiding from the camera…
ALL YOUR BASE BELONGS TO WA?
Another untracked steep face? Why not eh?
‘Zbo, zbo, zbo why aren’t thy Romeo?’
He split and outran the slough after he heard that…
But when we met up at the bottom, he started to cry..
Look how these dorks stand around each other!
SQ99’s world record ski rack attempt…
OMG, BEST COFFEE IN SEATTLE!!!!
Even while wearing pink, Zbo gets all the chicks!
BYE BYE
TIME FOR BED….