Meadows Closes

Hood River Meadows, the ski area on Mt. Hood is closed for the season.  I was disappointed because there is still 170inches of snow at the lodge.  However, I got to ski until May 4.  My ski pants are shredded from telemarking and its time for a new pair. 

So Lindee said, "Well now you should try on your new wetsuit and make sure it fits."

I said, "Any sport where you can wear waterproof pants is good with me."

Morning Coffee

Garden is Ready to Plant

Foster and Skins

Skin to the top of HRM

DaDa Arts Fest

Honor screen repair

Lunch

Lindee Carves Buttercup

Tam Tams! I got your Tam Tams right here!

Unavailable elsewhere, (according to The New York Times) they can be had in the Hood River Safeway where they put out a table of matzoh, gefilte fish and borscht every Easter. They have no idea what or when Passover is, so every year the Passover table goes out with the Easter decorations.

Lindee Pushing the Mower

Saturday Ski

We went skiing in the Mt. Adams wilderness area.
It was good, but the season is coming to an end. Time to dust off the mountain bike.

Foster at School

I took Foster to an elementary school for a lecture on dogs.

Indian Musuem on the Mall

We visited the Native American Museum on the mall.

I like the architecture. Its easy to screw up a space like the Mall.

I hated the museum. Here actual artifacts (in the case) are ignored by all visitors as they play with touch screen monitors instead. A beaded papoose cannot compete with a flashing monitor, so the monitor gets all the attention. One or two people glanced at the actual artifacts but most poked at the monitors and then walked away. Why drag your carcass down here to see content that is posted online?

I also hated it because there are flashing video monitors everywhere and speakers with parabolic reflectors to localize the sound, but they don't work. There is no space to observe, consider or think.

"Interactive" in a museum means video monitors, because you cannot have people messing with actual artifacts. The technology becomes the show.

Gerwin Library Expedition

Junk in the Trunk

The Bob and Jane Show hits the road

Happy birthday mom! Love Ben & St. Lindee

Alex this is glass at the dump

Breakfast View

Think CAD

Abby Try Again

Abby blogged her visit to Hood River and I like her style of photography so much that I want to share

Visiting our house.

Our visit to Elliot Glacier Brew Pub

We ran into Cindy and Gu

She took the photo with my phone.

Women wouldn't invent this

Lunch Trailer

Foster Get the Disk

Epic like Gilgamesh

Looking down Yoda.

Hi, I'm Clif, drop over some time.

Scooting around the crest of God's Wall

Drop into God's Wall from the side.

Moving the Office

Caleb helped me move my office stuff so that Don can finish the floor and paint the walls.

Its Snowing in Town

Beast in snow on the porch.

Snow from the 'sensor loft.'

Snow in the orchard.

God's Wall Powder

Tyler looking over the lip

Its steep out there.

And big.

Pow for dog.

Video of Tyler hucking it.

Mountains in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear

Progress

Spring

Cooler

Alex, this is for you!

I want to link these photos into an animated gif. Does anyone know how I can do that on a mac? I feel like it should be easy, but when I google search the topic, I get references to Netscape and other stuff from the nineties.

Ski Wed: Dust on Crust

One Bowl. You can see the parking lot from this crest.
Going up the Heather Canyon lift.
Out the Heather Canyon Runout, passed two skijorers

Video of on the Heather Runout

Destroyed by Buttery Goodness

Thursday it snowed about 4-6 inches and I bellied up to the all-you-can-ski buffet. I couldn't take photos because it was white-out conditions and kept coming down all day. Awww yeah.

Carrying Glass

I'd notice that the fashion in water has moved from Nalgene bottles (because of bogus health claims)* to spun aluminum. Abby said that the next thing was going to be carrying water in glass.

A few days later, I saw my first glass water bottle.

*Can anyone name a person harmed by a Nalgene bottle?

James Marc, painter

Lindee and I bought this painting by James Marc from the artist at a park outside the DeYoung museum in San Francisco. Here is the painting, now in its natural habitat.

Ski Up and Down Heather Canyon Runout

Lindee and Beast at the top of Heather Canyon runout.


Foster goes for a walk. Spoiled dog.

Ski Friday

There were few people on the mountain today. This video is Cascade lift, Heather canyon and then Heather runout to the lower lot.

Which Nuts?

I had to submerge a bottle of alcohol in a tank of water in an ultrasonic cleaner, so I needed to ballast to the alcohol bottle so it would sink.

Nate asked which nuts he should use for ballast.

And I told him.

San Francisco Air Tour on United

San Francisco from 3500 ft.

Flying SFO->PDX on United, I was listening to the tower on channel 9 and the captain requested permission to fly a tour over the city from Air Traffic Control. Permission granted, we flew at 3500 ft north along the bay then west over the Golden Gate.

Golden Gate Park.

I though it was really cool of the captain to request this route and fly it. I felt the aircraft level off when normally we'd be continuously climbing, and then fly north, then west. He hit the throttles and gained altitude over the Pacific. Even if you had your eyes closed, you could feel that it was an unusual flight path.

I wonder what motivated him to do it? Often United Airlines people are disfunctional and bitter.

Guitar Hero