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Originally posted to RohJuh.com on Feb 25, 2002. This ended up being one of the most extreme adventures to date, though certainly not by choice. “Look, Nachos!” was the battle cry. Ice axes not only chipped into ice and clung onto rocks, but also smashed into faces. Snowboards were used for bobsledding and skeleton racing. One of us even tried to use a snowboard as a sail, sliding backwards down the hill on her back, snowboard thrust into the air. Bathroom floors were tilted making toilets hard to sit on, and Eagle’s Nests existed in imaginary worlds. Our Montero couldn’t resist shaking its bootie and performing a donut on a two-way road, and Judy almost got squashed by a reckless boarder. Whew! This little trip turned out to be quite an extreme adventure, much more so than we would have liked. There were a total of 8 of us for this trip. Aaron, Sean, and John took an earlier flight from SD to Montrose, rented a Grand Cherokee, and got to Ouray about 3 hours ahead of the rest of...

Originally posted to RohJuh.com on Feb 1, 2002. Banff has been on Judy’s list of target destinations that she really wants to visit. Not only was it supposed to be beautiful, but with such dry snow, the skiing and boarding should be really good. We decided to check it out this season. Our group consisted of Patty, Dave, Bob, Trish, Ken, Amy, Brian, Judy, and myself. Because of the 09/11 events, airport security was high. On our last trip to Powder Mountain, Patty was stopped because she had a small pair of tweezers in her first aid kit which she had stuck in her backpack. Too bad we didn’t tell Trish about that incident because she unknowingly had a pair of small scissors, a set of small tweezers, AND a small pocketknife in her backpack. She of course was stopped and searched. The security person sorted through her belongings specifically looking for a pocket knife (which he no doubt saw on the scanner), asking Trish several times if she had a small knife. Each time, Trish empha...