Snowboarding and Urban Geocaches

We are so close to catching up to current-day here! A quick little catch-up post and I think we have covered the last month's major adventures.

So.. Brad and I outfitted ourselves back in the fall with new snowboards, bindings, boots, goggles.. the works! Not "new"... but new to us. We practiced snowboarding in Sugarhouse Park during Salt Lake's first snow, and headed up the mountain to Park City Mountain Resort later in the season!

Basic recap: I am terrible. Brad is awesome. Well, I wouldn't call myself "terrible" anymore. I started out falling every 25 feet or so and I can get all the way down the baby hill now! Brad also taught me how to stop and every so often I can do some turns on the board without eating snow. So I guess I'm getting there. Brad's dad is coming to visit in March and will leave me in the dust if I don't learn quickly.

Most of the times I yell when I fall. Sometimes I cry. Occasionally I can laugh it off. I'm working on doing that more often. Brad is great at handling my ups and downs haha but hopefully I will get better at controlling them myself so I don't drive him crazy.

For some reason, every time Brad held the camera up I did this with my arms.. I guess I thought it made me look like I was snowboarding or something, but upon review I look dumb as hell. After this day-- I stopped the arm thing. 

This is a stop. It was successful, but looks silly.

Another stop, getting better :)

Brad always looks like a natural. 

My first time on the lift was terrifying. We went on the lift many times in Wintergreen, in Virginia, but snowboarding here is a whole different world from VA snowboarding! The smallest lift here is so huge and so long it's beautiful but freezing. When we got to the top, there are like three runs to choose from. Of course, the only run that I agreed to go on was called "First Time" and it was the only one that was CLOSED. So I had to go on the next harder one! Still a very easy run, but I made it down a turn- stopped, got coaching from Brad, made it down the next turn, stopped, etc, etc.

Don't worry Mr. DeFrank. I'll get there before March.

On another note, we are figuring out our new GPS from the DeFrank fam for Christmas :) We are trying out our geocaching skills, starting easy with some Urban caches. "Easy." Supposedly. Sometimes we find them. Sometimes we don't. We decided it probably wasn't the best idea to BEGIN a searching-based hobby when most everything is buried in a few feet of snow. But we still make it work- sometimes.

 Cache Name: MeadlowLark Mound

Cache Clue: Rusty Barrell

 Excited about finding the first one! Signed the log and returned it. 

We completed the search for several more in the area. I believe we found two more and failed on two more haha. Finding them is really fun, but we haven't got the system down enough to find them all yet. We will get there one day!!

Through in a date night picture. Just for fun. 

PS- I will keep asking for comments. I have no shame.