Holy Toilet Paper Batman! The Zombie Apocalypse has started, the world is falling apart, and the people are going mad!

January 11th is National Milk Day AND National Hot Toddy Day. Who says we can’t celebrate both with one drink!! One of my favorite après-ski Hot Toddies is hot cocoa with a shot of Rumple Minze and fresh whipped cream!

Winter of 2018 I won an awesome GoPro Hero 6 and swag from the GoPro people at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort so I thought I would give YouTube a try. Think of my channel as a grab bag of family adventures and Wyoming lifestyle.

Ski Buds /skē/bəds/ Noun A group of Bros that enjoy *ripping pow, drinking beer, riding lifts, Aubrey ski, and spending time together. *However there is no such thing as a friend on a powder day.

tram lint /tram/lint/ Noun The group of Ski Bums who have been waiting in the tram line since 4am to insure they get first tram after a dump. Also includes the Ski Bums 4 boxes back that thought 7am was early enough to be on the first tram. Cleverly termed by my iPhone’s Autocorrect. “Holy
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crust·y un·der·toad /ˈkrəstē/ˈəndər/tōd/ Noun The frozen layer buried under just enough fresh snow to make you think it’s safe to make a turn. (Undertoad: A bogeyman, or in general, fear and anxiety about the unknown and mortality. From “The World According to Garp”.) Termed by me after wiping out on the Crusty Undertoad.

Last week was crazy! Along with working every day, I had a performance Tuesday with the Jackson Hole Community Band for the Wyoming  Special Olympics, then an Avalanche classes after work Thursday & Friday, and classes all day Saturday & Sunday with field work, AND I went to the Banff Mountain Film Festival Saturday night.
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After several years of trying to get my friend Jim (AHS Class of 83) to come to Jackson Hole and go skiing he finally planned a ski trip to Jackson Hole. What a good year for it too, we have had the best winter ski season in many years! We got on the phone and
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This weekend the ‘get the teen out of bed to go skiing’ thing hit a head. His schedule last week other than school included Boy Scouts Tuesday, we let him go to the Teen Center after school Thursday, and he went to a friends house after school Friday. Saturday morning my husband dragged him out
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I learned to ski at Mammoth Mountain in California my Senior year of high school and moved to Jackson Hole after high school. I had my first son Doug on trekkies in the back yard at three and skiing on the slope at 5. I was a single mom and we were skiing at full
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