About a month ago Bradley Burt, David Loy, and myself took a trip out to Big Bear super late at night. Adam's mom has a cabin up in Lake Arrowhead so he gave us the key and we high tailed it out there. We ended up getting to the cabin at around 1:30AM and were ready to go in, have a few brews, and post up to watch a movie or something. Little did we know that no one had been up to the cabin in a while and we were welcomed home by a butt load of snow everywhere. By everywhere I mean there was no way of getting into the uphill drive way...period. Yeah! Not exactly what we wanted to see at 1:30AM. There was no option but to grab some shovels from the basement and shovel it all out. We had to do it, and we did it! Let the photo sharing begin...
This is the first time I think I've seen David throw down on some manual labor.
This is not the first time I've seen Brad acting the fool.
The mountains were so blue on this silver bullet can that they were purpz.
All work and no beer makes so and so a something...
We battled for an hour and a half...and we won. Barely.
I guess in a way, you can kind of say that we got the full experience. We shoveled a drive way by hand like people do in lots of parts of the country. Well we didn't exactly do the whole drive way. Just enough to fit my car into it without sticking out into the street. I had never had to do that before and I got mad respect for people that gotta deal with this kind of thing on the regular. I never really thought about having to dig your car in our out of the snow as being such a crazy thing to do. Props to all you snowie peeps out there. It didn't stop there though. Once we got in we realized that the people there last did not shut off the water properly! That means no showers for us or nothing. Just no running water, period. Very lame. The three of us were just so stoked to get in doors though that it didn't bug us that much.
We made sandwiches when we got in. Brad and I didn't look this dumb eating them though.
The fire place was going off...and so was DLoy!
We stayed up late and watched some snowboard flicks. We SHOULD have gone to sleep as soon as we got in doors, but of course that was never going to happen. When the homies are out of town together you're always guaranteed to stay up late. Even if you gotta be up early in the morning the next day!
The above photo is probably my favorite from the trip because if any of you have ever gone on trips with David (or just stayed at the same place as him) you know what it's like to deal with him in the morning. Getting him out of bed is nearly impossible! It doesn't matter if it's early or not. Or if he got no sleep, or a solid 15 hours of sleep. The guy just will not get out of bed! I admire his will to fight getting out of bed though. Sort of. Not really. You can plead him, beg him, and down right yell at him to get the fuck out of bed...but it does no good in the end. This truly captures the nature of a morning with DLoy. I can't imagine what it was like to get him up and ready to go to normal school! I'll need to ask Dennis and Synthia about this next time I see them because I'm sure it'll be a conversation chalk full of laughs.
Ready to head out!
We bailed to the mountain a lot later than we had planned because we stayed up late unfortunately. But we got a full day in! Sean Peterson was also up there that day so we met up with him and did our thang. Of course on the first run of the day my lift ticket somehow gets ripped off my pants. It was a lame situation but after talking to the peeps I was able to get a replacement one (even though they have a no replacement lift ticket policy...who can say no to this little face?) and the day was great! Got to ride some good snow, did some back country (which I suck at!) and then on the last run fell really, really fucking hard! It was exactly the kinda day you'd expect. Great until the last run, and then BAM! I got broke off really hard actually. I still had a great time though. Good times had by all. We even ran into Greg Lutzka in the parking lot. We kicked it with him for a bit and then headed back down the mountain. The whole day was basically one huge snowball fight. It got really crazy during the back country runs. It was so much fun!!! Things get serious when you get a harsh snowball to the face though...that kinda happened a lot this time around, haha!
No matter where we went David somehow turned it into a snowball fight.
David propositioned Brad to engage into an all out war at the gas station. It was the battle to end all the battles and they went for it full blast.
This one lasted a long time and they were chasing each other all over the place. I could not stop laughing the whole time! I managed to catch Brad hitting David in the face here while also getting hit in the process.
The battle had ended.
But they were still on guard and ready for anything!
The trip was a success. Thank you Adam for letting us stay at the cabin! Hopefully next time you are with us. Tonight is my last night up in Watsonville visiting the family and friends. I will be leaving in pain unfortunately. I fell really, really hard today while skating at the Scotts Valley park with childhood friends Ryuta Shimotomai and Jason Miller. It was one of those falls where everyone goes "ooooooowwwwwhhhh" and goes silent. Yeah...it sucked really bad and I think I may have broken my wrist. It hurts to move it and I can't put any weight on it or lift things with it. Sweet. Thanks a lot you stupid, dumb fuck, little girl on the snakeboard. Not only did you get in our ways a million times but you psyched me out and made me second guess committing to a trick. Fuck you and everything you've ever loved :o
