2001-2002 has been a really epic ski season.  Last year we had half the average snowfall but this year it's been amazing.  I don't know what El Nino, La Nina, global warning, 9-11, or anything else has had to do with it but we've had a lot of really dry, powdery snow.  I think it's been colder this winter.  I've always worn the same gloves on my daily bike ride to work and this winter my fingers often get cold and that never used to happen.

Below are a few snapshots garnered from dusty slide boxes and obscurely named desktop folders.  I don't even recognize when and where all these pictures were taken.  It's all a big fluffy blur.  The dates, the names, the places are all unimportant now; we can never go back, or recreate the glisseful magic of epic powder days.
 

Near Wedge Mountain
 
 

Phil leaning back somewhere in Washington State (?).
 

Lars above Bullion Basin with Rainier in the background.
 
 

Andrew descending into Gold Creek basin.  It was actually a crust day but we did ok.  I definately take more pictures when the skiing isn't as good.
 

Silas having too much powder.
 

The ridge of "the Bow" near Arrowhead
 

Lars descending the Bow
 

In an interesting gully.
 

One Sunday near Mt. Baker it snowed too much.  We turned around because of avalanche danger.
 

Phil after he unkowingly walked off a 10 foot cornice in flat light.
 

A shot of me for my mom
 
 

Click on the pictures for Window Media video clips courtesy of MtnPhil.com. Warning, they have audio.

My second biggest yardsale of the season. My biggest was a sideways two and a half summersault with single axle that covered nearly sixty vertical feet and sluffed enough snow to make people below think it might be an avalanche. Unfortunately no one got it on video.
 

Me skiing near Wedge Mtn.
 
 

A day with the Ed and his dogs