Hey. I’m back. I didn’t mean to leave for so long, but all of a sudden the days spent laying in a hammock, cleaning out the garden to plant a bunch of seeds, and working just morphed into a month. Being on the computer when the sun was shining just seemed wrong and so did wracking my brain trying to figure out what to write about that could possibly relate to snow since the local slopes closed down mid-April and I don’t have any exotic trips planned to snowy destinations.
A fellow shredder texted me saying it might be postpartum depression. Maybe he’s right.
I’m not quite sure how to say this, but the last time out, I was done. I knew I had learned everything I was going to for the season, there was no reason to push myself, I just knew it was over.
After spending 2-3 days at the mountain a week I was ready to sleep in, do nothing.
I can relate. (Found this guy last weekend at low tide.)
The weekend after snowboarding was over Mitch and I and Afton went hiking out on a trail on I-90. We were used to the sun and heat of the central Cascades near Stevens Pass, so we wore t-shirts and shorts. We ended up doing a ten-mile hike in 40 degree weather with pouring rain. No one else was on the trail and it was mostly miserable except for a gushing waterfall over huge slabs of granite at the end.
After that not so epic trip to the mountains, we’ve stayed in Seattle, planting the cherry tomatoes and pole beans and watching the alpine strawberries grow. The sky’s blue here.
We’ve been tossing around the idea of maybe learning to surf. That idea was squashed though when we realized the closest place was Westport, almost three hours away. But, just recently a new surf shop moved into Seattle, Surf Ballard near Paseo – damn good Caribbean food – and Spacecraft offices.
Surf Ballard has stand up paddleboard rentals. Now, I’ve never really thought much of paddleboarding, it seemed a little slow and uh, dull. But, I’d be on a board, get to try something new, be in the water. Why not? Plus, it might just cure me of my snowboarding withdrawal.
What do you do once the snow melts?
