Bemis' Big Bachelor Bash

With the wedding in Portland just a few days away, almost everyone made it out west to Mt. Hood for Wednesday night, the first night of three all before the big wedding day. The drive in late that night was amazing. Not a cloud in the sky and a full moon shinning down on all the snow gave us great visibility to all of Mt. Hood as we drove towards its bright white peak. In the morning it was just as beautiful, and bright, but with a little more clouds.

After a hard day of skiing with 13 other people, the biggest group I've ever rolled with, it was back to the house. This time, we all tried to party but sleep became the obvious choice early on into the night. Some of us had had an aggressive night. As for me, I opted for Ryan's usual role of falling asleep before anyone else.

Being so close to where The Shining took place, Timberline Lodge, we had to stop and investigate what Jack Nicholson and Tanner Hall thought about it. And sure enough on one of the skis hanging in the main bar next to Warren Miller's name was inscribed "Massive", the name of Tanner Hall's ski movie from a couple of years ago. Pretty cool stuff.

And the science behind the entrance in the winter to the hotel, although making perfect sense, was really interesting to read about and see diagrams and whatnot. Apparently when they first built the hotel they completely ignored the fact that being a conical peak among mostly valleys the wind drifts pile up quick and high.

They needed to stop having to do this to get to the front door. Normally at this point in the winter the drifts are much higher. There was still a lot of snow even after almost half a foot or rain. Luckily for us we got 5" of snow two days earlier. Now it was off to Portland to meet up with the rest of the crew and see Lauren for the first time in months.