is it springtime already????

since last time, a roomate of mine and I ventured up to good old Montana and had acouple of days skiing. The snow quality wasn't epic, and my board took acouple shots, but it was super fun to get out of town for a bit and ski some new zones. Truth be told though, it ain't no Jackson.

I rallied down to the river to go run the narrows and park and play at winter wave. Not really any whitewater in the narrows, but it was a nice float. Winter wave was alright...it would of been good, but I was at the wrong winter wave. It wasn't until yesterday that I realized where and what the whole winter wave thing was about. Anyway, the adventure began and ended with post holing in thigh deep snow. Going down sucked, and going up was even worse. I could only take like 3 steps, pull my boat up, jam my paddle in the snow to keep the boat from sliding down the hillside, take 3 more steps and do the entire thing again. It was a nice float, and a nice few hours on the river.

Yesterday I rallied my roomate and a friend to go float the canyon. I remember back in the middle of summer floating the whole thing and everytime I was cold and ready to get out by the end. Yesterday we put on upstream of the normal take out and took out downstream of the normal take out due to lack of pulloffs on the road...(being 4 feet of snow everywhere except for the roadway it made it slim pickings) Anyway it was a good float, I found the real winterwave, and even got endered in big kahuna. We post holed again to and from the river in knee deep snow. It was a great afternoon on the river and we were only 30 minutes behind schedule.

well, until later...