Snowboarding In July - Flat Tops, CO

We made our way back to Steamboat Springs, CO after shredding St. Mary's Glacier for the day and stayed at Shannon's House again and the next morning we went to the Flat tops in search of snow. We made our way up to Stillwater Lake. The snow ended up being really far away and we joked the whole time coming up that we would hit these little snow patches we saw on our way up if we needed to. Well we ended up hitting a sweet little snow patch up there and had tons of fun on it.

Sean Trying to read the horrible map from the ranger's station.

Thumbs up to shredding the patch!

Photos of me shredding the Patch

Strapping in

Down I go. Shredding it up with my Prana bliss Capri's and Nikita T-shirt. We put our goggles on to at least feel like we were really shredding hard!

Hiking Back up

Here is Shannon Shredding down
I got video of her first drop and the first drop on the snow patch!

She took a couple falls, they made us laugh and gave her a little bit of bleeding and bruising.

I had to come unstrap her on this one..hehe

Sean sat and sun bathed the whole time. In this photo he was mad at me cuz I sprayed him. hehe


He decided he needed to snowboard and took a run down in his running shoes and on my board

People thought we were crazy but we had lots of fun

Snowboarding In July - St, Mary's Glacier

Sean and I took a trip to Colorado Last weekend to do some shraping on the snow in Colorado.

First we rolled into Steamboatd Springs, CO and stayed at Shannon' s house. One of my buddies from high school. It was rad to see her again, since high school.

We got up the next morning and headed out to St. Mary's Glacier. To get there you go to to Idaho Springs and just west of it you take that exit and go straight up to the end of the road and start hiking.

We went though the Eisenhower tunnel...where I tried to hold my breath through it. I failed, both times there and back. I got further on the way back, if Sean would have hit the gas maybe it could have been possible. This tunnel just goes straight through the mt. Pretty cool.

Then We got to St. Mary's Glacier...or well the start of the trail.
Then we got to the top of the trail. Here are photos of Sean and myself with a great view of the Glacier and lake the glacier melts into.

Here we are hiking up with our gear and crampons. Crampons make a world of difference and I sure would have been struggling with out them! so glad that I got them!!

We made it to the top!

The Beautiful upper, above treeline meadows. There is a 14'er in the background. There was a ton of wild flowers all over the place up there. So pretty and peaceful
Here is myself shredding down. It was really bouncy so Sean did not get a lot of infocus shots. Thanks for trying though!

Sean did not have enough and went back up for some more. The clouds came in and covered the sun and it started to get pretty cold.

One last look at the glacier and sean's line down the crazy part.

Back down the trail to the car we go...

This should be on a inspirational poster or something...

YEAH St. Mary's has been conquered!

My life...

This was for the Aleve Good Moves Contest. Keep your fingers crossed I win the 25,000 dollars to help pay off my medical bills! It shows me Mountainboarding, snowboarding, kiteboarding, kayaking, snowmobiling, enjoying life. All these things I am doing I take aleve to function with. I hate being dependent on something, but I am so greatful it helps me live life!

First Donation!

I came into work today, having a pretty horrible night. I check my email and I see that I have a donation to my boarding fund! Thank you Adam for the donation. I really appreciate it!! It really made my morning. Made me feel a little less as invisible as I feel right now. Thank you!