I posted about 30 out of the 80 pictures from my sister Cait's visit to Colorado last week, on Facebook. The entire set of 80 are at Picasa Web Albums, and there's a slideshow below. If you click the slideshow display, Picasa will open up so you can browse the thumbnails.

We had a great time when Cait and Wendy came up to the mountains to visit.We went camping down by Elevenmile Canyon, and climbing for two days in the canyon. Then we came back to the house in Fairplay, and spent two days hiking. First, we took kinf of a rest day at the house, and went on a short drive and hike to one of the old mining ghost towns nearby - Leavick. We had a nice evening fire in the yard in the new fire bowl, and Steve showed up later. He would be joining us for the big hike up Quandary Peak the next day.

It was a lot of firsts for Caity's trip this time. First multi-pitch climb, first time camping, and first hike up a fourteener. It was also Erica's first multi-pitch and her first fourteener too. The hike up Quandary was great - we had perfect weather, and a classic hike on th busiest fourteener hiking day of the year. It was, of course, Saturday on 4th of July weekend. There were a lot of people on the trail, but it wasn't too bad. only, the dogs had to be on leash the whole time.

Check out the slideshow below, or click it to see all the thumbnails and browse the pics at Picasa Web Albums.

Here's an album of snapshots taken on Employee Day 2010. This year they kept the medium size park and superpipe open to us, and with so few people riding the features, the park stayed really good all day long! What a treat! This was an example of Vail Resorts doing something very right for their employees.

On April 6-8, 2010, AASI Rocky Mountain conducted a Freestyle Accreditation clinic and exam. In an unprecedented move, clinic leader Gregg Davis used slow-motion video to help analyze the riders and let them see their movements during the Park and Pipe event. Please click the link below to view the results.

WARNING: the footage is strung together chronologically in a 40 minute video.

I was honored to participate as a Technical Adviser to the pro riders and the Transworld Snowboarding Magazine team during the first six days of the 12 day shoot. We were shooting the video and images for both the 4th annual 20 Tricks DVD, and the entire year of Trick Tips in next year's print magazine.

Here's a video:

I'm going to let you in on a little secret - wild edible plants are organic, healthy, whole foods. And they are available almost anywhere you are. I've learned a lot from Erica Marciniec as she refers to all kinds of different plants and ways to prepare and eat them. Good on Ya!

I haven't had it yet, but I'm really looking forward to having this Coconut-Sorrel Soup that she wrote about here: http://etmarciniec.com/2009/09/thai-style-coconut-sorrel-fish-soup.html

It looks great! You can click the pictures to make them bigger and really get a good look at the soup.

Erica, if you're reading this, make me the soup! I'll help!

Gregg

Here's the drainage problem and solution, as we have a road culvert that drains into our driveway from above.

Time Turns Elastic - Acoustic Barn Demo from Trey Anastasio on Vimeo.