i'm staying with my parents for a couple of weeks while i have my bathroom renovated in my apartment i'm less than a mile away from Tito's Taqueria foodstand in SW
On a late flight, overnight for a few hours in Seattle and I’m back for a few days. I can root against the Ducks but this fucking song gets me in the god damn feels at this point. One can have more than one ‘home’ and this certainly is mine. I miss and fucking love this place.
Not looking to go up to the ski lodges this year but I am finally getting a set of winter tires, just to feel safe, plus chains/socks to start going up Mt. Hood now to do some snow stuff and hopefully hiking. Where are some of the better places that we could possibly do sledding with a six year old? I've gone through Government Camp in the summer but given that a ton of people are probably going to be heading up on the weekends to ski I'm wondering if there's an easy hilly and less busy place I could get to.
Specifically Mt Hood for now, I have an EV and my wife didn't want to deal with snow tires on her hybrid so I'm probably not going much farther than a round trip of less than 150 miles to be safe on a full charge. The Snow Bunny Sledding Area looks a lot like what I want but wondering how busy it would be there around noon on a weekend.
In the past I have ran studded snow tires during ski season on my AWD. Last season I went with a Michelin studless snow tires (aka traction tires) and I love them. I feel more much more in control during the times I'm not on packed snow and there is very little drop off in terms of performance while on ice. If it makes you feel better to carry chains, then by all means do so. You will find pretty quick with an AWD and good snow tires you wont need anything else.
my parents never used studded tires and I always thought they were for people who didn’t know how to drive. After seeing my life flash before my eyes while ice skating on the 97 several years ago I bought some. Now the libs will have to pry them from my dead hands.
Yeah I feel pretty confident with my decision, I got some Blizzak WS90s and I'm not exactly going all the way up to the Timberline Lodge my first time. My car doesn't have AWD but I think the new generation of studless winter tires make much more of a difference from all the reviews I've read. I'm mostly curious where there might be good spots to hopefully play for a couple of hours without it being too crazy. I got a Sno-pass after doing some research since there's a few spots off highway 26 for sledding.
Winter tires worked out amazingly well, went sledding at the Snow Bunny Snow Park. Need some better boots and gloves for her as she didn't last long, we've never really played in snow like this until now
First time taking snowboarding lessons. For the adult lessons everyone else was a high schooler except me lol. portlandspartan inspired me to try Meadows.
I felt like I was starting to get the hang of it, but then I ate a lot of shit when I went on that electric carpet lift on my own. Definitely going to need a few more lessons, was pretty difficult to turn both left then right without falling down.
i don't think i'll ever forget my first day after snowboarding. i woke up so sore that i literally couldn't get downstairs without help; just completely beat to shit because i didn't realize how much i was falling all day. plus the soreness in my quads and legs. and i was like 10 or 12 or something, too. not sure i would survive if i experienced that now.
Granted I might feel different tomorrow, but it being a very warm day in the snow being slushy probably help cushion a lot of my falls. The biggest thing was I kept catching my wrists even though you're not supposed to because it's such a innate response.
At Black Butte Ranch for part of Spring Break, the condo we're staying in isn't great but goddamn is the landscape incredible.
we went to BBR every summer. probably my favorite memories of my childhood. was there for the first time in ~10 years in November and damn it's changed so much and doesn't feel quite as quaint. still gorgeous, though! want to get back there in the summer with my niece and nephew and just live in the glaze meadow pool
Yeah it has a little bit of a hoity toity vibe but it's shockingly not that busy given that it's spring break week.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kp...-washington-elementary-school/?outputType=amp best thing for this guy is to end up with a bullet in his dome. Also, every cop stereotype checked off here.
https://www.kezi.com/news/officials...cle_f6efffd6-01be-11ef-80d9-87b9e1b35ed0.html Guy shot himself. Sounds like the cops chased him from Salem to Eugene (~60 miles).
That must have been the Amber alert that was still active that I saw on the highway earlier today. Just said to look for a Silver Toyota Corolla and didn't show a license plate number which there must be thousands of.