Ajax and Highlands Test Session

On Wednesday last week, Dave, Marti, and I hit Ajax and Highlands just to see what we were and were not missing out on. Ajax, is not the greatest mountain and certainly does not compare to our absolute favorite Snowmass. Highlands on the other hand is awesome, there are so many awesome tight tree runs that no one ever goe too. There was still great powder and the day was just amazing. needless to say there was a large amount of drinking to be had at Iguanas at the foot of Highlands. They serve free beer for 2 hours and we certainly took advantage of the situation.

Timbers Club Staff Party No. 1

Well, we set off for the Eljebowl Bowling Arena on Thursday evening, in Eljebel. What a deal. Free bowling, free food, and most important...free grog. It was pretty entertaining since the last time I went bowling was when I was about 6 with my Kritzinger cousins. I was pretty hopeless but got the odd strike and spare (technical bowling terms, wouldn't expect you commoners to understand). We lost nonetheless. It was great fun. We then hopeed into Lightning Limo for our trip to Aspen. We ventured into Bently's, Erics, and eventually Club Chelsea. by this stage we had a large quantity of alcohol running through our veins and somehow made it home. What a night to remember. forgot to take pics of the after party....sorry.



 

Timbers Club Pre-Staff Party Warm Up... And Did We Warm UP

This is what happens when you let the Timbers Club Staff loose on an average Thursday Night! We certainly had alot of fun, Watched a band called the Freddy Jones Band and then came back to our abode with the team where we proceeded to drink large quantities of a range of alcohols and ended up with a considerably large hangove which in James Martin's case looked a bit like this....

Attman in Aspen

found this appliance in the Bathroom in Club Chelsea, designed and produced by my very own cousin, Attman Herringer!

The Pitkin County Dry Goods Staff...HOT

These are just a few pics of the girls that James works with every day! He likes going to work!!

Some Crazy Hats

Can you believe that people wear this shit... Can you even believe that people BUY this shit. Damn yanks!! Its bloody funny though! Not as funny as Marti's board though!!!!

Its all fun and games until...

This is what happens when you play too hard. Its all fun and games till someone snaps a board. The Hanging Valley wall is our favorite run and we were having a great afternoon till we were 5 seconds into the run and with a loud crack, James " I am still too heavy even though I have lost 8kg's in Aspen" Martin snapped the nose almost completely off his brand new Head Intelligence board. Intelligence my poephol!!!

Pierre the Ski Slope Slut

I am sure you all got this e-mail about "King of the Swiss Slopes - Pierre Roux". Give us a break and stop fooling yourself, you just sat at the pub all day. And by the way, what is that crap on your head?

Highlands Bowl

These pics are of the Highlands Bowl, it is a pretty insane run and you can maybe squeeze 2 in if you are fit enough. You catch 2 lifts up to the top of the mountain and then ski to a sno cat which looks like this...

and this will take you half way up The Bowl.

From there you walk for half an hour in the snow, pretty challenging at 13000 ft!!! Air is in short supply at that altitutde.

Washing the beaver

How is this for a crazy t-shirt, Americans are wierd!

Sunday Nights!

This is what we get up to when the Timbers Club lobby is empty!

Mr Compito feeds the masses

Today, sunday the 5th of March, one of our most amazing guests Mr Jerry Compito bought the whole timbers team dinner from the famous rib restaurant The Hickory House. The meal consisted for 6 racks of ribs, 2 chickens, 50 chicken wings, 12 Chicken fingers, 2 litres of bakes beans, 2 litres of cole slau (spelling), 10 pieces of garlic bread, a oven plate of french fries, and a number of sodas (coke and mountain dew). We of course challenged the 6 of us on duty to finish the lot, however this was not possible. Here is the evidence!

From left to right: Hugo Camara (Brazil), Lindsey Forester (Oz), myself, and Daniel Johnson (Oz)
The Feast itself, oh and what a meal it was.
Literally guzzling some Hickory Ribs!
Hugo Camara with half a rack of ribs
Doug Robson from Kingswood with the french Fries!

Katie in Aspen

Katie flew from Boston on the 24 Feb to visit me in Aspen which was great. Really nice to see her after 7 weeks. These were taken at the top of Elk Camp on an amazing day in Snowmass. They wont let me post them so follow the links.http://www.aspensnowmass.com/store/photo/photocard_display.cfm?x=6EB355457D20807D3D67AA03A25838AD
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This is just a little clip from Mardi Gras, probably the most fun I have had in the space of 12 hours ever. Ted and myself started to celebrate at 12pm with a pizza and pitcher from tasters ($4 pitchers... its just unbelievable), and then set off to the Snowmass Mall to watch the parade which was pretty fun. Next was the Jagermeister party at the Blue Door, one of our local haunts, and finally we ended up at the Mountain Dragon. Our favorite pub in sleepy snowmass. This was somewhere in the blur of Jager and beer. Dave and I with one of the gorgeous ladies of the Snowmass Police force.

This was the first day boarding with our new housemate Mr george Eadie. We had about 9 inches of decent powder and hit what we call the Hanging Valley Wall. It is all double black eiamonds and probably the most amazing fun you can squeeze into a 6 hour ski day.


This is the mountain we are on most days. Its pretty good fun. A touch icy at the moment, but it will do!