Wes Maldonado: Data Junkie

Jodi and I went to Bend for a 4 day spring trip. If you need the long drawn out story, check out the three part series otherwise keep on reading.

• Day 1 in Bend, OR: Redmond Airport, Shopping in the Old Mill District and Tumalo Falls

• Day 2 in Bend, OR: Skiing Mt Bachelor, Cascade Lakes Brewing Company, and El Caporel for dinner.

• Day 3 in Bend, OR: Breakfast at the Victorian, Ice skating at Inn of the Seventh Mountain and a movie in The Old Mill District

Day one: Finding Bend

We landed to a very busy Redmond, OR airport… one plane on the tarmac.

We made it to Cascade Lakes Brewing Company where I enjoyed a very excellent nitro Irish Stout.

Day two: Skiing 9″ of Powder at Mt Bachelor

Jodi and I got a bit of skiing in at Mt Bachelor.

Day three: Chillin’ out max

We wandered around Bend being lazy all day. We got in some ice skating also, to see pictures of me on ice skates check out Jodi’s Day 3 post.

Day four: Checking out and flying home

Nothing too special happened on the fourth day and so there aren’t any special pictures. Jodi had me drive around to look at the various gymnastics gyms in town, we drove around through all the neighborhoods and had some great views of all the mountains on a wonderful blue spring day. We landed at Seatac around 6PM, met my parents (our dog sitters this weekend) to pick up Kokanee and were home at 10:30PM leaving me 6 hours before I flew to Denver, yay!

More pictures are available on flickr via the WADOT

A snow cat sits on a 40 foot tall wall of snow covering US 2 at Stevens Pass, WA

The seattle metroblog pointed out that the WADOT puts photos on flickr. Here is an example of the 300 foot long avalanche that closed I-90 for several days this winter (Jan 2008).

More pictures of available in my Flickr Summit At Snoqualmie Set A small series of pictures I took of the instructors of in line during training can be seen here… Click on it, it’s hard to see without being shown full screen.

When it snows in Seattle, it’s a big deal.

So, here is Kokanee in the snow:

And here are a couple more: