David LaPlante » alpine meadows http://www.davidlaplante.com David LaPlante | davidlaplante.com Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:20:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Last day on the ski hill…2008 was a great season! http://www.davidlaplante.com/2008/04/27/last-day-on-the-ski-hill2008-was-a-great-season/ http://www.davidlaplante.com/2008/04/27/last-day-on-the-ski-hill2008-was-a-great-season/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:45:20 +0000 David LaPlante http://www.davidlaplante.com/2008/04/27/last-day-on-the-ski-hill2008-was-a-great-season/ Alpine Meadows Season EnderToday was our last “official’ day on the hill. Cleaning out the ski locker all the way down to the spent duct-tape balls, empty Hotties wrappers and that broken goggle lens from January got me all teary-eyed.

This was a ski season I’ll never forget. BIG snow in Tahoe. And more BIG snow in Tahoe. New fat skis. New thooperphat skis. Seven a.m. KAAAHHHBOOOOMS as avvy control woke us up to unreal powder.

Dozens of days of good times on the hill with dozens of family, friends and colleagues. Hundreds and hundreds of runs with Logan and Cody. Logan can ski everything now. Cody’s almost there. It’s an unreal feeling to not have to wait for the kids anymore!

The free wifi in the lodge at Alpine Meadows made it a little easier to work/ski/work/ski. And the 450+ inches of snow made it easy to ski and ski and ski and ski.

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Sad to see it end, but it’s time to get back on the bikes. Here’s some video clips from today with the LoganCody knuck’n around the hill. ‘Till next season!

]]> http://www.davidlaplante.com/2008/04/27/last-day-on-the-ski-hill2008-was-a-great-season/feed/ 5 Logan and Cody in the Lil’ Air Festival at Alpine Meadows http://www.davidlaplante.com/2008/04/24/logan-and-cody-in-the-lil-air-festival-at-alpine-meadows/ http://www.davidlaplante.com/2008/04/24/logan-and-cody-in-the-lil-air-festival-at-alpine-meadows/#comments Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:12:57 +0000 David LaPlante http://www.davidlaplante.com/2008/04/24/logan-and-cody-in-the-lil-air-festival-at-alpine-meadows/ Last weekend the LoganCody competed in a cool little air contest at Alpine Meadows. Props to Justin at Snowbomb.com for organizing and dealing with the usual parent BS. (Rant: why do parents CARE so much about prizes for their 6 yo!? Some parents were idiots because this event wasn’t judges like the Olympics…EVERYONE was a winner and that seemed to upset a few Type-A “my-kid-is-fifth-in-the-nation” dorks. Go to Killington then…sheesh!)

Anyway, for those of you who know the little snots, there’s a cool video of the contest. Photos here. Cody’s in the red pants and green sweatshirt. Logan is in all black pants, green sweatshirt. He’s got the yellow Reno Bike Project sticker on top of his helmet. They all got Shane McConkey, Tanner Hall and Johnny Moseley huck dolls and were stoked!

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