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Archive for January, 2008

Wintry Goodness

Posted in Anemoi Mittens, Beau, Knitting on January 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I woke up this morning to another 3 inches of snow on the ground after what was probably one of the most spectacular days in the backcountry I’ve ever had: run after run through feet of the softest, fluffiest powder I’ve skied in yet. I didn’t even stop for a minute to take a [...]

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Yep, still winter

Posted in Anemoi Mittens, Beau on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Have I mentioned that I live in a winter paradise? Please forgive the crappy photo–it was overcast and snowing all weekend, so great skiing, bad pictures, which is just fine by me.

As promised, I did blow off finishing Beau, and I’ve also blown it off all week. I finally ventured out in the [...]

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Preblog FO: Tangled Yoke Cardigan

Posted in Beau, FOs, Knitting, Tangled Yoke on January 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »

For the last couple years, my job has kept me from doing any knitting at all during the summer, which never fails to surprise me (I always take it out with me) but hasn’t really bothered me; draping myself in wool in that kind of humidity has all the appeal of a naked dip in [...]

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Snow day(s)

Posted in Beau, Knitting, Skiing on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

An old photo (that beard is long-gone, praise heavens) that still conveys the joy of the last few days.
My local ski area has gotten roughly 30 inches of light, fresh, beautiful, skiable, powder in the past couple days, which means there hasn’t been a whole lot of time for knitting lately (or work, for that [...]

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FO: Endpaper Mitts

Posted in Beer, Endpapers, FOs, Knitting, tagged , , on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

There wasn’t too much knitting going on last night because here at Backcountry Knits, we have a new pursuit:

and yesterday was bottling day, AKA the day of the poorly lit and way-too-hot bathroom. This is our first attempt and is (or hopefully will be) an amber from an Alexander’s kit. We’ll know for [...]

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The year of the blog

Posted in Beau, Skiing, tagged , , on January 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Happy new year! I celebrated the start of 2008 (and a day off) with my two favorite things: knitting:

About 12 inches of Beau
and skiing up at one of my favorite backcountry playgrounds:

Top to bottom, left to right: a beautiful tour up through the trees; kid sister (foreground) on her first backcountry ski outing; [...]

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