 | | Everyone in good spirits as we pile into the bus!
Cubic Parking Lot, San Diego, CA
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 | | Ugh, 1:17am and we're still up. Way past my bedtime. Here's someone's crashpad.
Mammoth HS, Mammoth Lakes, CA
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 | | Handing out maps at breakfast. Julie's concentrating on the map and not my nasty-ass hat.
Mammoth HS, Mammoth Lakes, CA
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 | | All aboard! Loading up to get to the trailhead.
Mammoth HS, Mammoth Lakes, CA
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 | | Hiking to the craters on the way to camp. I finally put my snowshoes on after busting through the crust too many times... :)
Hill to the craters, Mammoth, CA
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 | | The best group ever! This is far as the other groups would make it, *after* their dayhike. Shit... we're not even 1/2 to camp yet. Good crew, they can take names.
Inyo Craters, Mammoth, CA
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 | | Lisa and Julie moving right along.
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Tina and Jon making good progress with Marc a few steps behind.
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Packing the snow down to freeze to cut blocks later. If the students had been on another snowcamp before mine they'd realize exactly what kind of bastard i am. The other groups do this without packs, and start out with snow shoes. Hehehe.. It's faster this way guys : )
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Snowcamp 102: Block making. Kevin nodding off : )
West of Deer Mtn,CA
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 | | Everyone hard at work! It was a two hour hike in, 3 hrs of building, 1 hr dayhike, then another 2 hours building, all following a 4-5 hr sleepless night!
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Paul placing a block with authority!
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Our finished snow kitchen! We don't screw around and aim to keep warm at night. The door would come later.
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Heading up for our dayhike. F*K, this mtn gets steeper every year!
Deer Mtn, Mammoth, CA
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 | | Me nearing the top of the mtn.
Deer Mtn, Mammoth, CA
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 | | Cityslickers! This ain't the 20s30s : ) Go Marc!
Deer Mtn, Mammoth, CA
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 | | Heading down from the top of Deer Mtn. I'm not sure which was worse, suffering up or sliding down.
Deer Mtn, Mammoth, CA
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 | | Safe! Megan sliding out while on the way down. And this was with the mtn covered in snow, not ice!
Deer Mtn, Mammoth, CA
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 | | Home sweet home, our humble abode!
Mammoth, CA
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 | | The start of an ass-saving igloo. My ass to be specific. That night it would snow 3"-4" and i while i would have been fine in my bivy, it would have been a miserable night. Thanks guys!
Mammoth, CA
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 | | A 10' inside/bottom diameter igloo, one of the bigger ones i've made. But it's a bit tight for the 4 of us construction types inside!
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Arrr! So after we build the igloo we have to dig ourselves out from the bottom to a) not weaken the structure with a door and b) have a place for the cold air to sink. A small hole goes out the top for ventilation.
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Melting snow for din-din.
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Sup Wesside! Jay throwing signs.
Mammoth, CA
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 | | The most foul, disgusting, and obscene leader in WBC trying to be green by using unnaturally occuring methane to get the fire going.
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Basking in the glow of a great group!
Mammoth, CA
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 | | In all my wbc years i've never had all the students get on the table like this. No, I don't think they were born in a barn, it was cold out and they were wet. Hahaha...
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Megan's euro-scandinavian lightshow on our ice structures.
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Pure man-heat! The shoes would have dried without the fires that night.
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Waterproof boots are always waterproof... at least for me they are : )
Mammoth, CA
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 | | While it'd be cool to leave to out structures around we need to a) vent some 'issues' and b) get rid of any death traps for punk-ass kids drunk on Coors riding snowmobiles out-of-bounds.
Mammoth, CA
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 | | When an ass is that hot you just have to smack it! Shit... one of these days i'm to get my ass sued off. Hahaha... F*k it, i have lawyers too!
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Abbey and Karen making their way through the fresh fallen snow.
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Errr... heading down. Out here, what goes down must come up!
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Making our way through the slope on the east side of Deer Mtn. Walking along the side of a mountain is hard business.
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Screw it, this was just too fun to pass up. We'd pay the small price later. We did check the runout and picked this spot because of its lack of obstacles. (i should've mentioned this to everyone in the group... well, they're reading it now : )
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Here's come the sun! Much better than that cold stuff falling from the sky!
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Last little bit before the end!
Mammoth, CA
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 | | Group parting shot! Great trip guys, thanks!
Mammoth, CA
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 | | The tracklog of our trip, including my wrong turn at the bottom there. Opps.
Mammoth, CA
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