span style=”font-size:85%;”Alaska is my favorite place to be in the spring. The snow is great, my fitness is near it’s peak, my schedule is open to play, and it is light until 10:00pm. We have been trying to get out early to ski everyday but it takes a while to get equipment sorted out for everyone. Luckily we can still ski late in the day./span p align=”center”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Seyy8rqvcBI/AAAAAAAAAKw/1NwKTDQ6g6g/s1600-h/ak09+009.JPG”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Seyy8rqvcBI/AAAAAAAAAKw/1NwKTDQ6g6g/s400/ak09+009.JPG” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326829214856343570″ border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-size:85%;”Waist deep POW/span/p p align=”center”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Seyy8r_bddI/AAAAAAAAAK4/zlG44_VPoNY/s1600-h/ak09+014.JPG”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Seyy8r_bddI/AAAAAAAAAK4/zlG44_VPoNY/s400/ak09+014.JPG” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326829214943114706″ border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-size:85%;”Torin and Lars Climbing out of a bowl in Artic Valley. /span/p p align=”center”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Seyzkko7C9I/AAAAAAAAALY/OQKCX4Lc6Ik/s1600-h/AK09+007.JPG”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Seyzkko7C9I/AAAAAAAAALY/OQKCX4Lc6Ik/s400/AK09+007.JPG” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326829900164434898″ border=”0″ //a/p p align=”center”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Seyzke3oc2I/AAAAAAAAALQ/18h-t_yMvi0/s1600-h/ak09+004.JPG”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;” src=”http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Seyzke3oc2I/AAAAAAAAALQ/18h-t_yMvi0/s400/ak09+004.JPG” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326829898615518050″ border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-size:85%;”Low Grade but Awesome Snow/span/p p align=”center”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Seyy808cDrI/AAAAAAAAALI/442lG2ZXiLU/s1600-h/AK09+013.JPG”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;” src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Seyy808cDrI/AAAAAAAAALI/442lG2ZXiLU/s400/AK09+013.JPG” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326829217346490034″ border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-size:85%;”8:15pm and leaving the car to go ski Peak 3/span/p p align=”center”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Seyzkt6crcI/AAAAAAAAALg/XqxPtWSh75g/s1600-h/AK09+019.JPG”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;” src=”http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Seyzkt6crcI/AAAAAAAAALg/XqxPtWSh75g/s400/AK09+019.JPG” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326829902653861314″ border=”0″ //a/p p align=”center”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Seyzk12BuZI/AAAAAAAAALo/2bK36HGckSQ/s1600-h/AK09+034.JPG”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;” src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Seyzk12BuZI/AAAAAAAAALo/2bK36HGckSQ/s400/AK09+034.JPG” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326829904782801298″ border=”0″ //aspan style=”font-size:85%;”Andre and the 2010 Black Diamond Justices/span/p p align=”center”a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Seyy87epl-I/AAAAAAAAALA/h5tf7B_r9T4/s1600-h/AK09+029.JPG”img style=”margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;” src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_M9ps8F85nS0/Seyy87epl-I/AAAAAAAAALA/h5tf7B_r9T4/s400/AK09+029.JPG” alt=”” id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326829219100596194″ border=”0″ //a/pdiv class=”blogger-post-footer”img width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8083254037538554650-6063171007802467111?l=in-the-arena-brian.blogspot.com’ alt=” //div