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December 14 2008

A surfer prepares for snow and grizzlies

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For a change, I am going to take some time off. My wife and I are heading north. It is pretty funny because she is from Norway, and totally used to the cold. I have no idea what to do. Once when she asked me to climb on top of a big snow drift, I asked her if it was possible to fall in the center or if it would hold me up?

The plan, still subject to change, is to drive to Vegas, stay at the Wynn a few nights, then head north. Off to Aspen, to ski/snowboard for half a week, then drive further north to Yellowstone. You can’t drive a car into yellowstone during the winter, so we have arranged for these cool snow cats that carry you in on. Their bottoms have skis and tractor belts.

Once we are in yellowstone, we have reservations for a few nights in these little cabins in the middle of nowhere. It turns out there are still grizzly bears in Yellowstone. I thought they were extinct. I am just imaging wandering outside the cabin at night with grizzly bears.

Then we have a private guide to take us on snowmobiles around yellowstone.

It will be pretty adventurous. The funny part is that you realize that hundreds of years ago, native Americans lived there, grizzlies, snow and all. The only way you could survive was with what you could find in the woods. They did have thermal ponds which they could use as jacuzzis which I am sure made it much easier to get through the winter.

We’ll see how the city/surfer kid does in the snow.

Stay tuned!

  1. Eric Itzkowitz said on December 15th, 2008 at 1:39 am

    The trip all-around sounds like a ton of fun (except for the Grizzlies) because it’s not something most of us water-babies would normally choose. I would have thought Costa Rica, Bali, Tahiti, etc. (: Have a great trip!

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  2. SnowBall said on July 16th, 2010 at 5:04 pm

    First off, love the title of this post. It got me wondering. Haha you thought you could fall through in a snow drift. I am a northerner too, from Minnesota, so that’s incredibly funny. Snowmobiling is really really fun, but you have to be careful on the ice. You could fall through, no good. And thermal ponds in the winter time sounds like a lot of fun.

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