I have realized in the last couple days just how hard it is hard to save up money on seasonal work especially in places like Washington state where seasons often blend together and become more of an extended fall than a full on winter season.
When I first got hired back in November at the pass, first as a lift operator and soon after as a ski instructor, I was pretty excited to get out skiing and hopefully make some new friends while I was at it. It is now January 6th and I would if I said that I was looking forward to skiing as anything more than a means to make money. On the web cam at Alpental it looks like there is a small stream carving it's way down the center of the beginner slope and there are bushes pushing their way through the snow as far as camera can focus.
It's only now that I've come to the conclusion that to make seasonal jobs work you need to get out of Washington after the summer rafting season and head to colder places like Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming where season are less of a melting pot and more of a definitive thing. All of my friends in Colorado are getting hit with more snow than they know what to do with and as far as I can see Utah is in the same predicament which leaves me thinking....what am I doing? Next year hopefully I can stay in Washington and keep on doing what I'm doing but with more of a permanent job, if not I will be heading to a colder place without a shadow of a doubt.
I guess it's not all bad though. I have been kayaking a lot and with all this rain the rivers have been flooding like never seen before. I'm pretty sure a buddy and I might have gotten on the Snoqualmie at the highest flow it has even been kayaked...we think it was around 27k but might have been higher because the gauge maxed out. We could hear boulders moving down stream under us and a few full grown trees past us by but all and all it was a pretty good run with one hole ride that woke me up. The middle fork road was washed out so we put on at the A-Frame rapid and it was all over in 20 exhilarating minutes...ROWDY!! It's on a run like this that my gopro decides not to work...WTF
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| Was BIG!! |
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| Maxed out! |
-Owen
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