All In A Week

1. Daily office dog. Four frequent the office at different times. This is 4 mo. old Daisy.  2. Friday Night Mountain Top Supper Club - fancy with a candle and tablecloth for Italian night!  3. Note all the zippers and associated layers necessary to survive -19°F prior to windchill calculations.  4. I ended up being "head feathers" / "hill chief" for an hour on Saturday; this means I directed ski patrollers around the mountain to respond to certain incidents and kept track of folks.  5. But most of the time I was skiing Saturday because it DUMPED 16" of snow in <24 hours. Epic, epic, epic powder day!  6. Cards Against Humanity for Saturday night shift.  7. The Man Angel salute; this is my second family getting post-work aprés-ski beers.  8. So humble it hurts <3  9. Kenai living a rough life.  10. A series of screenshots from snaps I sent to Mandy and Saiph: "My car wasn't enough to get to the house"/"Beer is almost gone"/"Kenai and I are growing bored"  11. Shoveling through the 4' of snow on the porch.  12. Begging for treats.  13. Balance exercises at work.  14. The rough life of our office pet, Ralphie.

All in a Week (or Two)

1. Myth: All off leash huskies run away.  2. Q's got the biggest, softest eye.  3. Love having my best friend come to the office with me.  4. Ridgetop sunrise on a ski day.  5. Heckling with the best of the Breakfast Club.  6. Par for the course.  7. Sunset at the end of the ski day...onward to night shift!  8. Yoga evenings.  9. Selfie after we both ate shit simultaneously on a gnarly trail...under the lift...with customers. We laughed so hard that folks accused us of having too much fun.  10. The Valley floor, just visible during light snowfall.  11. Shotty visibility during the intense snowfall event Saturday night. 2" per hour for 3 hours!  12. Sunday morning weather.  13. Didn't need to use that door anyway.  14. Tracks along the pipeline to Bald Knob.  15. View of Canaan Valley Ski Resort from the top of Bald Knob.  16. View out the café window post backcountry ski!  17. A successful score of a hitchhiked ride home.  18. Superb company at sunset of a cold backcountry ski day.  19. I don't even remember what a clear, dry road is any more.  20. Grilling inside. Booya.  21. Q's snakey bitch face.  22. Grilling oysters, clams, and local beef on top of the mountain on a powder day - the rough life of ski patrol!  23. Sunset view across the bogs of Canaan Valley during an evening XC ski.  24. The husky telling me it is ridiculous that he should have to remain indoors during such a snow event.  25. The hacking of Griffin's mane for a second year in a row.  26. Birthday jaunt on Q-mare in the snow!  27. Sunshine!  28. He couldn't possibly be any cuter. <3  29. Whiteout blizzard conditions during my birthday hack on Griffin (only 30 minutes after my ride on Q).

All In A Week

1. A pipestrelle bat in its cave.  2. A cluster of federally endangered Indiana bats.  3. Finished my first book of 2015! Marching along with my goal to read a minimum of 20 books this year.  4. A different view of Canaan Valley than what I typically share - looking west from Twister at Timberline.  5. An actual SUNset with the SUN from my porch one evening.  6. Hodor begging for attention.  7. The lightest, fluffiest dry snow. Wish we had 3 feet of it. The skiing would be to die for.