ski weekend tahoe, march '08

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I finally made it through all the photos I took when Alex and Jasmin, and Lindsey and Angela, and JR and I all went to ski Tahoe for the weekend to celebrate Angela's birthday.

ski weekend tahoe, march 2008 photoset

The first night we went to dinner at The Bridgetender, had plenty of beer, bought a couple of sleds, grabbed a few headlamps (that JR is always so handy!), and trekked out into the hard-packed snow near our condos to recklessly sled down steep hills in almost total darkness to almost certain death.

The next day we hit Squaw Valley - everybody suited up and headed for the slopes. I took the tram up to High Camp to take some pictures, and promptly hit my trigger altitude. Bam!!! Massive headache and nausea. I toughed it out as long as I could, but I was down and out for the rest of the day. I felt well enough later to get up and have a great dinner of raviolis from Lucca, prepared by Lindsey. And later that night I got to go hot tubbing in the snow, though, so the day wasn't a total loss. :)

We took a long, leisurely route home the next day, and we got to see some scenic views over the lake and through the mountain pass, and take more fun pictures. Unfortunately, I was so busy taking pictures that I only ended up in one of them.