It's been a while (A BB, Bonus Blog)

It's been a while since my last blog post, huh?  Well, here's one now, depicting the adventurous times BSA troop 494 had at Pico Mountain skiing and snowboarding last weekend.  Everyone had a blast, and I know I had a lot of fun.

We drove up Friday night to Killington VT (Pico and Killington are pretty much on the same mountain.  Pico's just way smaller of a resort)  and we stayed at the Turn Of The River Lodge the whole weekend.  That place is pretty nice, if you ever go up there, I suggest you stay there.  (There aren't any temperature regulators on the showers, so if you wanna mess with someone in the shower, flush a toilet a couple times.  That entertained us for a little while)

A picture's worth a thousand words, so heres 7000 words

THIS is actually a picture from last year when we went to Pico.  And because I'm sure the ladies were wondering, that is in fact me.

The rest of the pictures are from this past weekend

Unfortunately, it was raining for the duration of the ski day.  Fortunately, the rain barely affected the conditions (Which were excellent, by the way)

Here we are at the restaurant  (That's James and Ethan)

So, there was a fundraiser going on this weekend to find a cure for cancer (American Cancer Society maybe?)  Anyway, there were promotional things where you donate money and you get to spin this wheel and win something.  This is Casey, who broke the wheel.  Fortunately, I already won a one day lift pass, which I soon after scalped out in front of the resort.

And here's all three of them on a lift with me.

WOAH!!!!
This is a BB, a Bonus Blog! (That's bonkers!) This means I'm too lazy to make another post, to your benefit.

Here goes that crazy, wild, bonus part of the blog:

I finally was able to encounter a day that wasn't frigidly cold, nor rainy, nor cloudy, and was actually relatively decent the other day.  So, I went out for a little hike round behind my house, and took some quick little pictures of the babbling brook which I figured would be overflowing after the two strait days of rain along with the melting of two feet of snow.  Here's another 8000 words to feast your eyes on:

This is the trail head.  Building stone steps to the street may just be my Eagle project.

Here's a really old road, probably dating back to the 1800s.

The river

The falls

I've got about a thousand pictures of this stream.