Your tax dollars at work on the mountain....

Last Saturday, my favorite ski patrol guy took me on a back country adventure to Ridge Lakes at Lassen. The sky was azure blue, the temps were fairly warm, and the snow was nice (but heavy on the way back in).

Ross skinned over to Diller to meet two friends and ski the Diller couloir.

This was strictly "work" for Dr. Adventure, so he headed to Squaw Valley with Mark the Florist on Sunday:)

Springtime in upper Bidwell Park

For the past few weeks we have been experience unsettled spring weather, bringing snow to the mountains and rain to the valley. As a result, upper Bidwell park is lush with grass and wildflowers and many season rivulets and waterfalls are flowing. The following is a few shots from some of our evening strolls.

Ross standing next to a small waterfall, that was creating a lush grotto of ferns, moss, succulents, and flowers.

This is a shot of lupine (purple-blue color) and vetch (violet color) through the split rail fence near the entrance to upper park.

Cloudy skies and leafing oaks in the background. Delphinium in the foreground.

Paraglider enjoying the weather.

A view looking up towards North Rim. Yellow dwarf stone crop and glassy white hyacinth border the lava cap.

Lush grasses as we descend and head back to the car.

Skiing before Easter

The Saturday before Easter we hit the slopes at Mt. Shasta for our last visit of the season. The conditions were amazing, espescially for April in California. We posed for a photo with the Travers, who spent most of their winter weekends coaching or skiing with the MSST. (Katya, Elaine, Ross, Debbie, Jesse, Ben, and Bill--Jasper was off skiing).



Katya and Jenna skiied together. Jenna managed to set several land speed records during the day. Katya and she were skiing like champs!!

From here on out, the skiing will be at Lassen.