Long Time, no Blog

So it's been a long time since I(Bryce) expressed any adventures or thoughts.
My life has been consumed by way too many hours behind a desk and too few on the snow(thought I've been super busy with that too)!
Lots of teaching adventures to share at a later date, but I want to share my weekend first and foremost.

So on adventures:
This week I took Thursday and Friday off. That was the smartest thing I've done in a while. We lucked out and Julie had Thursday off so we went with Ted (whom I encouraged to take the day off as well). A powder day on Alpental was a blast. Ted and I have very similar riding styles/instincts. Face shots, cliff drops, stump booters. I felt like I was in a video at times even when I got bogged down in the wet snow or had heel slide a 6 ft wide gulch between two cliff bands.
Friday I followed it up with an early start and long car ride up to Mt. Baker with Ryan and Ted. While the snow wasn't exactly fresh or uncut, the weather was beautiful blue skies and the company was awesome. We rode our asses off on any thing from groomers to iced out tree runs to small powder fields(3 turns max) to soft but cut chutes.
Highlights: 19$ ticket, first run, some beautiful control dynamic turns down a 12 foot shoot rated double diamond, watching people drop the backcountry, 3-beer lunch, dropping a ~10-12 drop into cut powder then an accidental somersault but ending right back onto my board, the weather, the lift convos, jamming out on the way into and out of the parking lot, and finishing the day down the canyon in the sunset...
Yes a whole paragraph of highlights.
Saturday was some casual turns at Alpy with Julie and her work friend Karen. A good time. Karen was super jazzed to ride some Washington snow and it was infectious. The girls both had energy and it helped because I was tired. Met up with Nate(another ski school friend), and got a few turns, even found 3 more powder turns. Finished the day with some yummy Ethiopian food and an early bedtime.
Sunday was a clinic at Stevens...
More to come on that, too long of a post and it's bedtime.