The Big Trip

I'm trying to pack right now for the big trip that I have been looking forward to for the entire ski season. Tomorrow, Dakota and I fly out of Denver bound for Calgary, then we'll take a bus to Lake Louise. After a day of preparation we have 6 days of backcountry skiing out of the beautiful Stanley Mitchell hut, 13 miles off the road in the amazing Little Yoho Valley of the Rockies. We are both super excited because we have never been to the Canadian Rockies, and its been a long time since we have managed to go on a trip together. I won't be able to blog until May when I get back, but the pictures should be amazing!

This week has been good. It started off in Boulder at Dakota and Kelly's baby shower, which was quite an extravaganza, then I spent a day sitting in a car dealership helping Jill negotiate to buy a new car. She bought a Toyota Matrix, its pretty cool. I returned to the western slope and spent a day shipping books for Wolverine Publishing, then had a peaceful but productive day climbing in Rifle with Micah, who was in town. He managed to send a 5.13a in a day, on his third try, so way to go Micah! Another day of work at Wolverine had me cold calling shops trying to sell guidebooks, then drawing some lines on photos for a new guidebook that will be released soon. Lastly, yesterday I went climbing in Rifle with Jill, who had a mysterious day off work, and my friend Mike from Basalt. It was a glorious day, made even better by the fact that I sent all the routes I had been trying for the past week or two, not falling once the entire day. How often does that happen? You'd think with such a busy week I would have taken some pictures, but I guess I was saving the mojo for the canadia trip. I'll post when I get back.