Lauren Dances to Treadmil video

This is a video response to Keith's treadmill video!

Skiing and Beer

Hey there so a few cool things have happened lately one is the new keggerator that was donated by Justin Moore (well the fridge part) and I bought the parts but it is up and kick'n. We here at 602 s Mcgillen are currently poring some Red Lodge Ales IPA! pretty sweet.


The second cool thing is that I got to ski some POWDER today and it was free, sweet. I have a deal with Red Lodge Mountain were I shoot photos for passes so not to bad. even thought the snow was nice it isn't to deep so we hit lots of rocks. Still a good day of skiing.

Sweet Groomers DUDE!
OH YA! The goods.

Time for one of those cold beers!

Skier vs Avalanche

Nick Baldwin and Mike Newdgent in an avalanche on the back side of Bridger Bowl.... Momentary laps of reason.

Bla Bla Bla

Nothing new to report from the MT strong hold. Kim Showed up this weekend and is now fighting Cooper for ever inch she can get of the futon which seems to be working fairly well and he makes for a pretty nice bed warmer seeing how the Guest room/ porch / Kim's room is not insulated very well it isn't as warm as the rest of the house. Having Kim around is awesome hopefully we can take advantage of her and maybe Sony and I can get out and do something while she is around. Kim is working at Sylvan Peak for the break were she instructs the tourists as to what down jacket to buy and big fluffy hat will go best with there Ugg boots. not a bad job for x-mass break. Oh ya and she gets pro-form discounts while working there and full use of the rental Tele fleet so she will probably take advantage of that once or twice.

I have been helping out he Search and rescue here in town and gave a presentation on a avalanche that took place in the bridgers a few years ago that two of my friends were in. We also watched a movie at the meeting called "A dozen more turns" anybody that skis in the back country needs to see that movie it is a great movie about a group of friends all will lots of back country training and skill and one had his masters in snow science all of them from Bozeman. An avalanche on there last day killed one of them and broke another s leg so bad it needed amputation, but not to focus on the bad. It was an eye opener to all for sure. Jeff Gildahouse the head of recreation at the forest service in town also gave a great presentation that included a film by the Utah back country association that was really good.

On a lighter note I got the kegerator finished and I will be buying the keg in the next few days to put in there I can't wait to have a keg on tap at home! I just don't know which of Sam's beers to put on tap first I was thinking IPA but if anyone has any other ideas I am open to suggestions. They did just come out with the chocolate stout (dam good) but it would take months to finish that off.

And just in case I don't get to talk to blog again before x-mass have a MERRY Christmas and a HAPPY New Year!

Weekend Fun

Sorry it has been awhile since the last post but we have been pretty busy. Tis the season for running around like maniac so we did that well. this last weekend we were in Bozeman we started out the weekend by having a wild game night at Amy and Jason's house with lots of friends. Now if you think like I do you thought that wild game night is were you play twister and spin the bottle and weegie board but I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it meant game as in stuff that runs around in the wild until some crazy guy with a gun or bow shoots. so we had Antelope witch Jason cooked up amazing, there was some elk BBQ we brought some smoked pheasant and a lot of other mystery meat that I didn't know what it was but it was all delicious! and with all the beer and old fiends I hadn't seen since I left it was a great time. Lauren was were she loved to be the center of attention and had a great time running around. It was kind of weird being the only ones there with a kid, I think those Bozemanites need to get on the ball and start having kids so L will have someone to ski with!

We then spent the rest of the weekend doing what we normally do which is run around trying to see everyone and get shopping done. As you can imagine we didn't do much shopping because that place was a nut house and being from RL we have a hard time going anywhere with more than 20 people is really crowded. I think someday we may become hermits. On sat night we had a little Birthday dinner for Sonya which was at the Ale works, man they have changed that place. I guess they figure that pool tables were not as valuable as the tables filled with people eating. Especially the way I play pool a quarter table can last all night.

Sunday Jason and I hiked Slushmans south of Bridger Bowl the hike was killer due in part to me weighing 50lbs more than Jason he kicked my ass up the hill not breaking through the crust layer and being in way better shape than I and the fact that my skins kept falling off my skis on the kick turns and i would slide back it sucked I think I climbed twice as far as Jason. while we were hiking Sonya and Amy were XC skiing with Lauren in our really cool new ski trailer Lauren loves it and it is really nice to pull. after all of that we got back to Red Lodge at about 7 on Sunday and passed out a pretty good full weekend if you ask me.

Keith's new mudding buddy

This ones for you Keith! I knew the silver built had it in her, and I think that plaid shirt with a mullet is really working for you keep it up.

Evel Kneivel

This is in honor of the late great Evel Knievel