that’s whacked

in a $200,000 MALIBU BEACH HOUSE!!

Tuesday, Jan 21. 2003  –  Category: Musings

wow. what an awesome weekend! i went up and spent thurs & fri with Wendy in LA. then we met up with Jaime & Zac and drove up to Lee Vining where we had a great, cheap little motel room within easy access of Mammoth, June, and Mono Lake.

we went to Mammoth to check it out on Saturday and it was just packed. absolutely too congested with huge lift lines. the runs were great, the snow was awesome - but there were just too many people. on Sunday we headed to June instead, so I finally got to use my season pass! June was awesome, we had such a great time. the snow was great, and the runs were huge and long… definitely a lot of fun. the best part was, no crowds at ALL. it was awesome. i finally got the hang of turning, so i was stoked.

on Monday we stopped by Mono Lake. the parking lot was covered in snow and ice, so of course Zac did a bunch of donuts. we walked down to check out the Tufas, and there were even better than in the fall. the surrounding landscape was so surreal…snow covered dry-brush everywhere, with these majestic snow-capped Tufas rising out of the mist. it was beautiful…

on a last Dakar note…Mitsu claimed 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 10th in the top 10. Nissan pickups took 5th and 7th.
Volkswagen Tareks took 6th and 8th, and a BMW X5 grabbed 9th.