dryad

I gotta say I'm a little disappointed with y'all. No takers at all for this Sunday. C'mon... chicks (well, one chick at any rate), beer, skiing. I can't believe nobody wants in on this action. Oh well. If you happen to be at Stevens, swing by and say hi. Look for the pinhead on the bunny hill with the purple jester hat on.

I'd love to see that! Sorry about the thread drift again, but this reminds me of something. Has anyone ever seen the Australian movie "Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert"? The end of the movie has 3 guys in full drag hiking up Ayers Rock. Great flick.

C'mon are you guys so insecure in your manhood that you refuse to eat Luna bars? Better stick to HC then. They're not too expensive if you get them at Trader Joes, or if you stock up when they go on sale.

Once got a Mojo bar as a free sample. Don't remember the flavor, but pretty good. Salty. I still think Luna bars are the best, with S'mores flavor being the best of the best. Like an extra-dense chocolate-covered rice krispie treat. Yummy!

Dryad = wood nymph in Greek mythology. Often found in mountain settings.

Just messin' w/you guys. I'm actually somebody totally new, never posted on cc.com before. Sorry about the thread drift.

Yes, of course.

Nope. Keep guessing.

Minimum 30lbs if you're puny, max 50lbs, 25% of body weight if you're in between. Sucks, I know. I'll be one of the dorks lugging my water-filled pack up that hill.

Nothing in there about ignoring and/or flaming a cute female avatar because you assume she can't possibly be for real, even though she is.

Maybe 50 people total, thereabouts.

Yup, Everett Mounties' basic climbing class conditioner. We'll be there starting at 6am, hopefully all gone by 1:30pm, assuming nobody breaks a leg or some such.

You wouldn't have seen me in Mill Valley. I was sticking to doing laps down the bunny hill. I was the pinhead with the silly purple jester hat on. Saw one guy there kickin' it old school, trying to telemark on long skinny track skis. Anyway, it looks like I'll be going out again this Sunday (3/2), so let me know if you want to join in. The offer of beer in exchange for instruction still stands.

Thanks for all the advice, folks! (and for the warm welcome to this forum) I haven't done any alpine skiing at all, just XC. My friend learned alpine skiing as a kid and I could totally see that manifesting itself in her attempts to tele. She starts off in a tele then winds up parallel no matter how hard she tried not to. Pretty powerful muscle memory. I, on the other hand, seem to be perfecting the dreaded fake-a-mark, that thing where the lead foot does all the work and the back foot just kinda trails behind. Works on hardpack, but I don't want to ingrain bad habits. Gotta work on weighting the back foot bigtime.

Is he cute too?

That's actually a pretty accurate reading of what I'm looking for, except for the "just mess around" part. The tele lesson is an essential part of the deal. So here's something of a little trip report. The lucky instructor (if there was one) would have actually gotten 2 beginner tele-babes yesterday, me and a friend of mine. It was her first time on tele gear, and my third, so we studied "Allen and Mike's Telemark Tips" and made some progress. Makes me thing of the saying, "In the land of he blind, the one-eyed man is king." We went up to Stevens and it was a mob scene, not surprising on a bright sunny Sunday after a snowfall. I must say, nothing hones your turn-making instincts like running through a gauntlet of 8-year-old snowboarders. So tempting to use the business end of my poles on the little buggers.... Grrr!

Yes, I understand the theory, it's the implementation that needs improvement.

Hi, I'm a beginner tele-babe looking for a partner/instructor for Sunday, either Stevens or Snoqualmie. I'll buy you a beer if you teach me something. And if you're another newbie like me who just wants to mess around on the bunny hill, that's cool too.