Here's the bridge near Meem's Bottom. Sometime I'll post one of the covered bridge there.
Didn't do too much today. Drove around with Lily. Got a bagel from Mr. J's. Talked to the guys over at Mossy Creek about my winter trout fishing fly selection. Played a ton of Crackdown. Drove up to Meem's Bottom (just a tad shy of the covered bridge) to fish with Mikey for a bit. We fished till the sun was gone. Didn't catch a thing but hey, I figure it's called fishing, not catching. It was weird to fish with a spinning rod, but Mikey doesn't fly fish and I was in a hurry to get on the water, so spin fishing it was. I've got some good leads now on some fly-fishing only places now, so I'll be hitting them like the angry fist of God another time this winter to try my hand at cold weather trout fishing.
Here's the bridge near Meem's Bottom. Sometime I'll post one of the covered bridge there.
Here's the bridge near Meem's Bottom. Sometime I'll post one of the covered bridge there.
Just another day of work and then a little bit of skiing to top it all off. I picked up Lily from the baby sitter's house on my way home from the Nut.
So I got ambitious and made a new years resolution that I will take one (and publish to flickr and this blog) photo a day for the entire year. Some of these photos will be pretty random, and oh well, it's all good. Somehow it will grow me as an artist and a person. I'll start a day late and publish yesterday's photo today.
Yes, it's a steak, egg and cheese biscuit from Quarles. They're $2.61 after tax and on the way up to catch first chair at the ski area, they're worth their weight in gold. Besides, what better way to start a new idea, than with breakfast?
Yes, it's a steak, egg and cheese biscuit from Quarles. They're $2.61 after tax and on the way up to catch first chair at the ski area, they're worth their weight in gold. Besides, what better way to start a new idea, than with breakfast?
So I said I'd post a photo of my new boots, but I haven't yet because I've been skiing the heck out of them. Maybe I'll remember to bring a camera to the Nut to take a pic. I'm pretty stoked about having won a photo contest on the National Geographic Intelligent Traveler blog. They haven't posted my photo yet on the blog, but it should be happening soon. This is the prize winning photo (yes, I did win a prize. no, it isn't fame and fortune. what did I win, you ask? a box of chocolates. I kid you not.)
I went and picked up my new ski boots on Saturday afternoon. It took about an hour and a half to get them fitted, but now they feel like a pair of slippers. Giant, hard plastic and metal slippers. I'm pretty stoked. They charge $35 to get the fitting done, but they waive the extra cost if you purchase some aftermarket foot beds from them that cost from $30-$70, so that justified getting new foot beds at the same time for me. I didn't think the wife was gonna let me splurge, but when she heard the price she told me to go ahead and get the foot beds.
Skis and boots are now at the shop (function 4 sports) getting a release check done and a base grind/wax/sharpen. I fell in love with the Giro G10 helmet down at Freestyle, but for $130, and my being a cheapskate, I'm gonna try to find it cheaper. You can buy some cool earphone attachment options for it (they call them "Tune-Ups"). You buy some ear pads that are configured for bluetooth, or regular headphones, or two-way radio. The two way radio option would be awesome if it will hook into the radios that we use on patrol at the Nut.
Before I went to pick up the boots I stopped at Crutchfield for customer appreciation day to try and draw a 30% off or better coupon so I could justify a Canon G10 to photograph with while I'm skiing, but no dice. Oh well. Maybe I'll win the lottery whenever I get around to playing it.
I just ordered some new ski boots from Freestyle (www.freestyleonline.com) last week. They should be here by the end of this week, then I can run down there, get them fitted (woot for them doing custom fitting), adjust my bindings, and my ski season can officially begin. I'll post a pic of them as soon as I get them. They're Nordica Speed Machine 12's, so hopefully they'll last a bit longer than my old Atomic SX9's, which I got 3 good seasons and 2 packed out seasons from.
Once ski season has begun I'll be doing my best to ski every ski area in VA/MD this season and document it and turn it into a book. I'm hoping to add WVA to the list, but I don't know if funds will allow for that.
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