meet me down at the bar tonight
we'll drink to the first snow arrivin
feels good just to be alive
in this old mountain town - we're here to stay
-Muskellunge Bluegrass
We had the first snow day of the year on Friday, so I spent the snowy morning playing mandolin. On saturday morning the snow had built up and was white, beautiful, and fresh. I put the 44 mm tires that I had waiting for use on my bike and rode around town in the powdery snow, before it turned to slick ice. It was a blast! On the way back I stopped by one of my friends new houses, where they made me a sweet breakfast on that snowy morning, and I helped them finish moving in.
Later on, I wanted to go try to learn to snowboard on the mountain, but since the mountain wasn't open yet no one would rent me a board. Luckily, a local dude hooked me up with a sweet board for just over the price of a normal rental, so Jim and I got up the next morning and snowshoed up the mountain with our boards on our backs. When we reached about 10. 5 or 11 thousand feet we put our snowshoes in our packs, strapped in and went down for a great ride. Having never snowboarded before, I wiped out pretty hard a few times, but I'll take learning the hard way over not learning at all.
To finish up the weekend I went to see Muskellunge Bluegrass play after the boarding adventure - they are one of my favorites. Great mandolin playing! I also went to see Keller Williams play, an artist who creates songs by playing one instrument at a time and looping the melodies while he adds another instrument. He is hugely entertaining in concert!
we'll drink to the first snow arrivin
feels good just to be alive
in this old mountain town - we're here to stay
-Muskellunge Bluegrass
We had the first snow day of the year on Friday, so I spent the snowy morning playing mandolin. On saturday morning the snow had built up and was white, beautiful, and fresh. I put the 44 mm tires that I had waiting for use on my bike and rode around town in the powdery snow, before it turned to slick ice. It was a blast! On the way back I stopped by one of my friends new houses, where they made me a sweet breakfast on that snowy morning, and I helped them finish moving in.
Later on, I wanted to go try to learn to snowboard on the mountain, but since the mountain wasn't open yet no one would rent me a board. Luckily, a local dude hooked me up with a sweet board for just over the price of a normal rental, so Jim and I got up the next morning and snowshoed up the mountain with our boards on our backs. When we reached about 10. 5 or 11 thousand feet we put our snowshoes in our packs, strapped in and went down for a great ride. Having never snowboarded before, I wiped out pretty hard a few times, but I'll take learning the hard way over not learning at all.
To finish up the weekend I went to see Muskellunge Bluegrass play after the boarding adventure - they are one of my favorites. Great mandolin playing! I also went to see Keller Williams play, an artist who creates songs by playing one instrument at a time and looping the melodies while he adds another instrument. He is hugely entertaining in concert!
