http://rodyakin.com/Journal Personal blog of Roman Rodyakin en-us Copyright 2006-2010, Roman Rodyakin blogfeedback@rodyakin.com blogfeedback@rodyakin.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:52:00 PST Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:52:00 PST Vi, baby. 1440 http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20100514/ Fri, 14 May 2010 17:50:00 PDT Alright, I have now skied and hiked Heliotrope Ridge on a broken ankle. Awezum... (includes 2 pictures) http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20100513/ Fri, 14 May 2010 17:40:00 PDT It was Saturday, May 8, 2010. Chris, Juya and I were on a day backcountry ski trip to Coleman Glacier, Mount Baker... (includes 2 pictures) http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20100306/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:52:00 PST Ruth Mountain, that is. A little neat glaciated summit, 2169 m/7115 ft above sea level, immediately northeast of Shuksan... (includes 29 pictures and 1 video) http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20100216/ Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST As of summer 2008, I am not in New England anymore (woohoo!); I am back West -- this time in Seattle, Washington. Since moving here, not only have I learned to tie a figure eight (and prefer the bowline to it), but I also now tend to reach to my toe piece at first when getting out of my downhill bindings... http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20080425/ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:50:00 EDT Sophia brought another piece of free comedy from school. The assignment in her writing class was to write a story for a newspaper, describing the events and including facts... (includes 1 picture) http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20080229/ Thu, 29 Feb 2008 23:00:00 MST I'm flying back home early tomorrow morning. And, while the memories are still fresh, I need to write down a few of my thoughts (using "thoughts" loosely, as usual) on Snowbird vs. Alta... (includes 8 pictures) http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20080226/ Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:00:00 MST Ever since I arrived here 3 days ago, it has been cloudy and foggy. I couldn't complain really — I came here to ski powder, and powder it was. Still, I was wondering if I was going to spend a week here and never see the supposedly breathtaking vistas... (includes 20 pictures) http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20080224/ Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:00:00 MST I totally fail to understand why it is that whenever I bother to publish something here, it is about skiing. Just this past summer nine of us had the best road trip ever going from Boulder, Colorado to Las Vegas... (includes 4 pictures) http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20070330/ Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:00:00 EST I just arrived at our rental ski house for the last weekend of the season. Yep, while Loon is not scheduled to close for another couple weeks, our rent expires next Friday... (includes 26 pictures) http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20070325/ Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:00:00 EST It's been a while (like...more than a year!) since I've been in California, and even longer since I've been in Northern California, so I flew there for the weekend (writing this on the plane back home). The program: (1) hang out with my friend Andrey who moved from LA to Mountain View a few months ago and (2) ski Tahoe... (includes 8 pictures) http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20070322/ Thu, 22 Mar 2007 23:00:00 PST Three weeks after returning from Switzerland, I finally have time to post the pictures and do a little write-up. Basically, Oleg and I visited Mike for what was supposed to be a week of skiing... (includes 41 pictures) http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20061218/ Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:00:00 EST It's that time of year again. Onthesnow.com replaces Slashdot as the coffee break site of the day... (includes 17 pictures) http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20061121/ Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:00:00 EST Some people would understand this, and some would not: when a close friend (and I rarely use this word loosely) of mine decided it's time to tie the knot, I had to be there. The first obstacle was that Andrey still lives in Moscow, Russia, and I live in Nashua, NH, USA... (includes 26 pictures) http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20060326/ Sun, 26 Mar 2006 23:00:00 EST I knew that Québec the province was an interesting place back when I was a litle kid in early eighties in what was then the Soviet Union. First, they had that monster of a hockey team, the Canadiens... (includes 9 pictures) http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20060129/ Sun, 29 Jan 2006 23:00:00 EST That was my first time skiing after returning from Crested Butte two weeks ago. Just the three of us (myself, Alena and Sophia) drove up to Smugglers' Friday night, skied for two days and drove back Sunday night... (includes 9 pictures) http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20060113/ Fri, 13 Jan 2006 23:00:00 EST In the morning we woke up unbelievably early (7 AM), packed the rest of our belongings, checked out of the hotel, hopped on the car and headed to Denver. We stopped in the town to take one last picture of the mountain... (includes 2 pictures) http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20060112/ Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:00:00 MST On our last day of skiing in Crested Butte, we finally got to ski some powder. Not a lot of it by Western standards -- just five inches, -- but for us who ski on New England sn...I mean ice, it was more than enough... (includes 6 pictures) http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20060110/ Tue, 10 Jan 2006 23:00:00 MST Yesterday was Monday. That meant (a) uncrowded slopes got even more uncrowded and (b) the local Radio Shack was open... (includes 14 pictures) http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20060109/ Mon, 9 Jan 2006 23:00:00 MST On Sunday, it was cloudy, foggy, cold and snowing. We did hope for a powder day on Monday, but it stopped snowing Sunday night, so today there was only about a couple inches of fresh powder on the mountain... (includes 4 pictures) http://www.rodyakin.com/journal/byDate/20060107/ Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:00:00 MST Crested Butte turned out to be what I expected it to be. That said, it still got me excited beyond reason... (includes 10 pictures)