2007 Update
Gosh, has it been a decade already? Seems like not so long ago since the last reunion yet so much has changed. Yeah, it true. I gave up the day job after moving to Salt Lake City with Chevron. The skiing was just too good to sit on my butt in meetings and on the computer all day while there was powder to be had. And Chevron was giving out a nice early retirement package to do corporate downsizing, so I went for it after 20 years of the corporate grind. We spent three years in North Lake Tahoe to fix up a house I had there, but then decided to sell it and move back to Salt Lake. Let’s see, I also met my new wife Liz (who was born in Glens Falls) at the National Avalanche School in 1997, and now we have a seven year old son Andy. He’s only been skiing for six years… and starts 2nd grade in the fall. He’s in a Coop class so I teach science once a week. Liz owns a Xeriscape Landscaping business, so she has the winter off to telemark ski also. Yeah, we’re serious pinheads and the garage looks like a ski shop. We do the Alta/Snowbird season pass thing, where we normally get over 500" of Utah powder. In the summer, Liz works with native perennial plants and I’m the househusband. While Andy’s at school or in rec department camp things, I try to explore all the 200+ miles of single track around the Wasatch front and Park City on my mountain bike. Someone’s got to do it! We also try to do several southern Utah canyon country trips in the spring and fall, mainly hiking slot canyons. My mother is still alive and well on Surrey Fields Rd, off Bay Rd in Queensbury, so we try to get back annually in the summer. Liz’s dad used to live in Bolton Landing, but sadly passed away almost two years ago. I try to play the flute regularly, along with a very little bass guitar and piano (I’m teaching Andy piano). We just got back from our annual week long trip to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival! Festivaaallll!
1997 Version
Here’s the readers digest version of my life. I was born in a small town called Glens…. oh, beyond that. I graduated from college at RPI, moved to
San Francisco, became addicted to serious surfing, windsurfing, mountain biking, downhill skiing, backcountry/telemark skiing, and most recently whitewater kayaking. The end…
Oh, did I mention that I try to hold down a job with Chevron coordinating environmental work, air pollution, water pollution, hazardous waste and site remediation in their oil refineries in my spare time. And I was married for six years to a woman who is a really extremely talented musician – guitar, sing, flute, keyboards, saxophone…- and the best woman skier I ever met, who’s a bilingual teacher, who has some mental health problems via genes from her crazy psychiatrist alcoholic abusive father, which eventually lead to us splitting up about two years ago. That’s been a bummer; but on the bright side, we didn’t have any kids to worry about and now I get to chase young women around again trying to find a new wife (which isn’t always all that fun, but it has its moments, oh my…). And she taught me to play the flute, so now I’m a pretty good flute player and bring it with me all the time and play every day. And I have a house in San Rafael, just north of San Francisco in Marin, that has a hot tub outside- and that there are only two things to do in the hot tub that are really fun, and one of them is to play the flute.
And I volunteer ski patrol at Squaw Valley, so I spend about 30 days a year downhill skiing/patrolling (actually a lot of patrolling on my telemark skis) and another 20 days a year backcountry skiing in the Sierra. And share a ski house in Truckee with a good friend. And all summer long I go windsurfing under the Golden Gate Bridge after work. And I teach avalanche classes and telemark skiing for UCSF. And I do lots of mountain biking on my M2 FS Stumpjumper, including a moonlight ride each month. And drive either my Nissan 4×4 pickup with camper shell or my ’81 Toyota Celica with 275,000 miles on the original engine, transmission and clutch… And since I was getting bored, I learned to whitewater kayak this last summer, so now I have a Pirouette S boat. And when I’m really feeling good and tough, I still do some surfing off of nearby Point Reyes Nat’l Seashore.
Feel free to call me at 415-492-9098. If you’re coming out west, come visit.