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A Weekend in Bend

Deschuttes Brewery Pub

Deschutes Brewery Pub

When I arrived in Bend, Oregon, I expected to run into characters from Tawna Fenske’s romantic comedies around every corner. I peered into the open kitchen at the Deschutes Brewery looking for the chef from Eat, Play, Lust. When I passed the bobcat enclosure in the lobby of the High Desert Museum I started looking for the planetarium that put the frisky in Frisky Business. I looked for Marine for Hire‘s Sam chopping wood alongside the houses nestled among the trees along the road to Mt. Bachelor. After discovering Crux Fermentation Project nestled between a train track and a freeway, I expected to see Believe it or Not‘s strip mall with a psychic leaning against a male stripper joint – oh wait, that one was set in Portland. And they are all fictional stories. The little town of Bend, however, is very real, and it is not what I expected. Read More

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Home Mountain

SnowBowdoin

Our home mountain is Stevens Pass. This year the snow has been slow in coming, but in 2008, we got so much snow we could actually ride at home. This is my husband boarding down the sidewalk on our street.

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Stevens Passages: A Sick Ride

shattered cell phone

A Bad Beginning

After the breakthroughs of the previous week, family ski day number three had an inauspicious start and got worse from there. They say a bad day on the mountain is better than a good day anywhere else. But sometimes you should just stay home. Read More

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Stevens Passages: Breakthroughs

Steven's Pass highway Little A and I took a couple of weekends off from snow sports while her face healed and my entire left side stopped hurting. XX started her snowboard multi-week course. She had a tough first class. When we finally all went up together again, the circumstances weren’t auspicious. The day started with half-healed injuries and fear of failure, but it ended with breakthroughs all around. Read More

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Stevens Passages: Full Family Snowboarding

Stevens PassNew Year’s Day, 2013 launched ski season here in the crooked little shack. It’s not just any ski season. For our family of four, this is the family ski base year. The scene: Stevens Pass. Allow me to introduce the players. Read More