Global Reset: Snowbird 2006

Snowbird 2006

Scott Hughes — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:50:00 -0800

Just got back from our 4th annual ski trip. We went to Snowbird mountain resort near Salt Lake City, Utah. We had a fantastic ski vacation. I’ll have lots of pictures and video available soon (once Erik stops holding them hostage). In the meantime, I wrote up a short novel describing nearly every major event of the trip. I wished I’d done this for every ski trip we’ve done, just for my own edification. I don’t expect anyone (not even my friends) to read the whole thing, so here are some highlights:

Nicole and Erik got attacked by Mormon proselytizers at the Mormon Temple Square Visitor’s Center.
Nicole and I skied a lot of fresh powder, going off-trail whenever possible.
I convinced Erik and Nicole to join me on a very intimidating black diamond run, which was quite an accomplishment.
Nicole got a great video of me crashing a jump I did off a little snow ramp.
The Mineral Basin ski area (the backside of Snowbird) is one of the most beautiful ski areas I’ve seen. The bowls of snow seem to go on forever.

Here is my full Ski Log for Snowbird 2006. I’ll post a link to the pictures and videos as soon as I free them from Erik’s tyrannical hold.

Update: The complete Snowbird 2006 photoset is up on flickr. Working on converting the video to a reasonable distribution size.

Update: Loaded the video of me crasing a jump on Ourmedia.org, which is very slow. I uploaded it to Google Video as well, but it hasn’t been verified yet. When it’s uploaded there, I think I’ll try embedding the player in the full ski log. Until then, try watching it on my ourmedia page.

Update: Loaded it on YouTube… They downsampled quite a bit, so use the OurMedia link if you can be patient.

"Snowbird 2006" by Erik

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:17:30 -0800

Speeling is not my strong suit. ;)

"Snowbird 2006" by Scott Hughes

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:03:28 -0800

Erik uses dual-screen monitors on his setup, and one full screen is likely dedicated to his thesaurus… I’m sure your GRE vocab would’ve been top-notch if you had Erik’s thesaurus.

And he panics when there are too many vowels in a word. The one you can’t find is “puerile”, which is derived straight from latin and means, literally, “boyish”.

"Snowbird 2006" by chowdary y

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:32:24 -0800

Dude Erik,

I needed a dictionary to read and understand your comment. and I still don’t understand it completely. perhaps you meant plebeian when you said ” plebian” but still don’t know what ” purile” means. I understand ” Mu-hahahahaha”

Should I have taken Vocabulary coaching from you, I might have scored higher on my verbal section of GRE. :)

"Snowbird 2006" by Erik

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:48:14 -0800

You purile plebian! To place in my purview, your precious pictures was a paltry proclaimation of your perspicacity. Your presumptious postulation of my public persona was post-ceded with the imprisonment of your pretty pretty pictures! My percipiency is without peer! Mu-hahahahaha!