2Days after Christmas

We have been getting snow for about a week solid as of Christmas and 2 days later friends that I met last year showed up in force, they live in the Chiwawa Pines area, Aret, Jim, Allan, Shawna and please forgive me for not remembering everyone's names they had a blast playing in DEEP POWder and even doing some climbing but getting stuck too.

Peace and Bear loved it getting the attention but they love each other too. We are continuing to get snow here and just in Dec we had 225.75" of Dry Fluffy POWder that is finally settling a bit especially since it has been warming up since yesterday.
One thing for sure what seemed like there might not be a winter at the beginning of the month it has definitely made up for it. Check out the many cool photos of the Chiwawa Pines Gang on the web album linked to here. Sorry this is late getting out but my computer is down and wasn't sure about getting these downloaded.
We found our Paradise, hope you find your's too.

Happy New Year 2008

Well 2007 went out with some excitement I could have done without but ended up turning out great and I need to thank a couple of people for going out of their way to help. Thia past week we have really gotten lots of new snow very dry POWder that seems almost bottomless. The last time I had seen any snowmobilers out this far was last Thur and there were 14 of them and they said they were grateful for big sleds in front breaking trail and since then we had gotten over 4' more. The grooming report said they had groomed all the way to Trinity but yesterday afternoon I met a couple of guys from the Sno-Jammers snowmobile club out of Puyallup that had worked to make it to Trinity so I showed them around, while they told me how rough the road in was and how deep the snow was. My friend Jim had told me that if they groomed he was going to come in on my snowmobile but I told him that the road hadn't been groomed according to what I saw at the Trailhead. Some valuable lessons were learned yesterday , the first one is to communicate with several people to let them know when you are making a trip like this especially alone. There were suspicions but we didn't know for sure that Jim was coming this way until around 6:30pm and he had started in around 3pm. When Glenn and Loren left to head back to 1000 trails they came across Jim about 10 miles from here and emailed me to let me know they had seen him and were concerned because of the bad conditions. That was the first confirmation that we knew Jim was on trail but way overdue. After making several phone calls and sending a few emails 911 was called around 10pm to let them know that Jim was overdue, around 10:30 I heard noise on the porch and there shaking and cold was Jim he had been walking for the last 4 hours because he had slid of trail and couldn't lift the sled anymore he was drained. I made a few calls to cancel the rescue efforts but around 1am I heard sleds outside and went out and there was Glenn & Doug from Sno-Jammers and they had come out to look for someone they had just met on trail 7 hours earlier, I sure wasn't expecting that they took my key and said they would get it out of the hole it was in and ready to ride in the following morning which I knew could be an adventure but was prepared to make it, Jim has to go to work tomorrow. While drinking our morning coffee and getting ready to go out to get the snowmobile Peace started barking like crazy and when we went outside there was the groomer with Denny driving and Justin steering my snowmobile they drug it out to us then made a pass around and back out making a very nice drive into Trinity. This was a combined effort thankfully Glenn and Darryl had seen the groomer out grooming when they were coming out here to help look for Jim and explained the situation to them and just how deep the snow out here was, they mentioned they would finish what they were doing and then would head this way but in all honesty I wasn't going to count on it and for that I apologize. A big thank you to Glenn, Darryl and forgive me for forgetting your name who came out originally with Glenn from Sno-Jammers snowmobile club, Gayle Evans from Midway store, and Denny and Justin from Pacific Mountain Services for not only grooming out here but dragging my sled in for us making life easier for us today. I've met some wonderful people Snowmobilers that have helped break trail, helping to get out of jams and I just want to thank all of them for their help and caring for someone they just met or haven't even met before it's how I believe things should be but most people are in such a hurry to get through life that they miss those opportunities, I look for those opportunities because you just never know who you might meet or help. I just want to apologize to Loren for forgetting his name and for calling Doug Daryl on the return trip. Thank You to all of you Happy 2008.
We found our Paradise, hope you find your's too.