Below are the 9 most recent journal entries recorded in inferno22's LiveJournal:

Sunday, March 14th, 2004
1:06 pm	Back in the NP So I have finally returned from my winter adventuring, with two black eyes and a broken ankle. Sooo many stories have been left out of this journal because of my lack of access to the internet. I think I'll probably try and put my scrambled assortment of memories back together and write more about my time in Kirkwood because it was one of those life changing experiences. I won't start now though because i've got people to see and things to do.... and a very fast motorcycle that has been left alone all winter. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, March 1st, 2004
4:02 pm	more good times There are so many things I have not written about. Next year i'll definately have to bring my comp to kirkwood. I am on the 3 week count down for leaving my lil mountain town. I can't wait to see sean and run around southern cali visitting people. I have got to run, hopefully they've fixed my boots by now. Fucking ski equipement is always breaking on me. Ok time for one quick story. It snowed 4 feet in 3 days a lil while back so I skiied my car! HAH i'm sure i had the first decent down that slope. It was hilarous though. We built a kicker up to it and everything. Too bad I didn't get any pics. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2004
4:05 am	too much to say It is rough only being able to get online once ever couple weeks. Next winter i'll have to bring my computer down with me so I won't have this problem. Ok worthwhile news.... Billy my rookie buddy almost died in an avalanche a few weeks ago. While he was doing his morning control work the slide he was triggering with his explosive broke between his legs, because the idiot was standing too close to the slide point. anyways he was really lucky because if that slide broke a foot more uphill it would have carried him right over these large rocky cliffs. We both have helmets now. Sean and I are trying to figure out how to skip the first week of college and hang out in southern cali to see amy our long lost english waterpark friend. Ahhh it will be great to see her again. I am going to have to figure out a way to convince her that taking a winter off from school to work at Kirkwood with me would be the best use of her time. I am not sure i'll be able to do that. Other then that Sean also wants to live on campus this spring. i think that would be hilarious, so i'm in. The is another guy who has never patrolled who was only hired a few days ago so now billy and I have an underling. There is much more I would like to write but i've got to send out a couple more emails. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 31st, 2003
2:35 pm	Kirkwood So much has happened since the last time I was able to make an entry. Where to start is the question. I guess the beginning is the best place... now where was that again? Ok so after Sean and I went to Vegas (where we flitted with strippers and gambled away our meager amounts of money... least we got some free lap dances)we continued on to find his girlfriend in Bishop CA. Now for reasons which blew my mind he ended up tramatically breaking up with her when we finally found her after days wondering around bishop looking for her. I couldn't believe what I was seeing when Sean went off on her in the line for the LOR movie (which I wasn't impressed by). That guy gets too worked up and forgets about people's feelings when he is drunk (of course we were playing drinking chess games while waiting in line.) Anyways they are no more and i'll go into more detail about Sean later. So with Sean being gone it was time to start work at my new job on the Kirkwood Ski Patrol!!!!!! A live dream of mine has been accomplished. It feels good when you do that. I wonder what the next one I'll accomplish... probably eithor graduating college or running my own fishing boat. Heh I'll probably be a capt before i'm a college grad. yes once again i've digressed... back to Kirkwood. The mountain is amazing with great skiing. This is my kind of ski resort... narrow shoots, lots of cliffs, steep tree skiing and all sorts of other ways to have fun. Training with the tobaggons has been difficult to say the least. Trying to ease 200 pounds down a 50% grade hill on a sled that just wants to run you over isn't easy, in fact it is fucking scary sometimes. They have also made me take empty sleds down places called "the wave" and "the wall" where to start out you have to jump in and while you are standing straight up your skiis, hip, and shoulder are all touching the mountain. I love it. OHHH and the early morning avalache work. They already have me throwing the 2 pound explosive charges. I love the smell of fresh dynomite in the morning. I was at a spot a couple days ago where you throw the charge and then take cover under a cliff and the snow flies over your head. Good times. A coupe other quick stories. The one trained avalache dog we have drinks more if you factor in body weight to beer intake percentage then I do everyday after work. Oh yeah we all sit around the locker room after work and bullshit and drink beers. A couple days ago a renegade skiier who had his season pass taken from him for skiing out of bounds brought us a Keg a seirra nevada pale ale as a bribe to get his pass back. Of course being the alcoholic forgiving types that we are here at kirkwood ski patrol we gave him the pass back and gladly drank his keg. I guess I called Rachel that night and forgot that I did (bad move). Speaking of Rach she broke up with her new boyfriend and asked me if I was still going to come back to Bham in the spring. I don't know what i'll do if she wants to get back together... Right now I don't want to... but if i actually see her and hug her i'm not so sure i'll feel the same way. She is afterall amazing.\ Now that i'm on the subject of girls... there are none my own age here!!! Plenty of pot headed snowboarders my age (yuck). Also Donna is coming to visit in about 2 1/2 weeks. I am looking forward to having a friend in town and of course someone to snuggle with. I am living with a 41 year old gay man. He is nice, but he also gets on my nerves with his habbits. I do like the way he was the main room decorated... i could do without the hello kitty shit and stuffed animals in the bathroom however. The other new patroller the year is pretty cool. we are dealing with a frat like initiation together. I think we'll be friends a long time. Yup hazing is definately happening but the guys are pretty good to me. Once again i'm out of time at the local library... so i'm off to go back up the hill to my winter home. Hopefully i'll get ahold of someone at the volunteer fire dept today so i can start getting involved with that. I have heard many stories about the crazy car accidents they respond to (the road in and out of kirkwood is pretty dodgy) Dodgy? damn i've been around too many people from england lately. Yeah and the fire dept has a place to lift weights and internet... if that isn't reason enough to volunteer i don't know what is. One last thing. I finally had my first patient! Just some bad snowboarder who dislocated or broke his shoulder... but it still felt pretty cool to be the first one to reach him and then get him all in a sling and swath and then take him to the clinic. He was a pussy though... crying on and on about how much it hurt. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 17th, 2003
1:25 pm	good bye aspen I was just starting to get settled in aspen when I got arrested and kicked off the mountain for all time. I think things are going to work out for the better though because the job offer at Kirkwood was still available to me. Sean and I spent a night in Vegas on our way to Bishop Cali (which is where I am now). We are running around this rock climbers paradise searching for his girlfriend. I might continue on to Kirkwood today or wait until tomorrow. Nick my hippy pong playing pall is suppose to come through town today so it would be nice to hang around and see him... climb some boulders. Heh I remember last time I went bouldering. One of the rocks came loose, and would have squished the lil girl I was climbing with had it not been for my heroic efforts. I threw her out of the way and the rock rolled over me spraining my MCL and giving me various abrasions and bruises. Donna love me forever now. time to get off this library comp (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 6th, 2003
12:59 pm	Fear I just finished the medical day of the patrol tryouts... there are 3 spots open for the 20 of us who are trying out. A week ago the odds sounded better and JT (ski patrol director) made it sound like I would get the job as long as I could ski well. After hearing that there are now only 3 instead of 7 spots I am starting to feel a sense of fear. I foresee myself going on a deep aggressive drinking binge if I don't get this job. I turned down a job offer for the patrol in Kirkwood. That was such a hard decision and if it hadn't been for people pushing so hard for me in this direction I definitely would have accepted it. I fear how I will react if i don't get this job. I must keep in mind, "Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." Dune is such a good book. Speaking of books I finished "The sea, The sea" Didn't like the ending but damn I love the main character. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, December 5th, 2003
3:23 pm	try outs Patrol tryouts are at 9:00 AM tomorrow morning. This means I'll be going straight from a night of snowmaking to mock medical simulations. I have been avoiding nervousness by not thinking too much about this upcoming date. There is no more time left to ignore it however and I can feel the first signs of unease. I am confident in my abilities to handle whatever medical situation they throw at me (I'd like to thank Tom, Luca, and Nick for that) and of course I am not worried about the skiing part. Yes I am confident in my abilities, but this is what I came all the way out to CO to do. I don't even want to think about the possibility of losing this job to someone else... especially because I did turn down the patrol job at Kirkwood. Ann and I have been exchanging e-mails on a fairly regular basis lately. I hadn't realized how much I missed interaction with that crazy girl. It is impossible to explain Ann, but her off the wall enthusiastic don't take shit from anyone attitude shines through in her notes. She has offered wonderful incite about relationships and why I should lighten and brighten up about the recent ending of my relationship with Rachel. In her own words "i am sorry about the dating thing... dating sucks.. it always has had its good points.. but when it comes right down to it, dating sucks, and it always has... its kind of like speed.. it has its good points.. but when it comes right down to it......... it is hell." Ahhh yes Ann is a modern day poet. Speaking of Rachel I should finish the entry I started about her and our relationship... I have lost the desire to think about her lately though. Soon... soon I will be able to quit this graveyard snowmaking job. I think I will quit after the ski patrol tryouts. I wouldn't start work on patrol until Dec 15th, but I am sick of running around that mountain on an snowmobile in 10 degree temps. Hah two nights ago at work one of our Lenko fan guns burst into flames. How something that pumps out snow from air and water catches on fire in 10 degree temps in beyond me. The flame was huge though and I got to hit it with the fire extinguisher... it rocked. I guess they cost $40,000 each so our boss wasn't in too good of a mood when he found the charred remains in the morning. Ok i'm off to go see "the last Samurai". Should be a good flick. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 30th, 2003
5:20 pm	Housing!!!! Finally no more living out of my stinking cluttered busted up station wagon. I love that car to death don't get me wrong but living out of it since november 7th has become very tiring, especially when I got my new pair of skiis and boots and didn't have room to lay down in the back anymore. Yes things are coming together quite nicely. I am working a hopefully temporary job until ski patrol tryouts on the 5th of this month. As of now 3 out of the 4 people have moved in to our appartment. Ryan, frat boy from ny. He is nice and would share anything or help me out if i ever needed it, but he has too much of the American frat boy inside of him. He says he is a good skier so at least that gives me someone to ski with. Of course he was too lazy and hung over today to go out with me. Then there is Dave the Aussie. He is quite a piece of work. All he is looking for is to get laid and party. He tells me lots of stories about this adventure or that time he got laid... I think he is full of shit. This suspicion of mine was seconded by my other aussie (friend) in town Tamzen. Once again my time is running our for internet use at the library. ARGGG the cute waitress from the cafe just came in... *wonders how I am going to talk to her* "so yeah you have served me before how are you doing?" maybe not (Comment on this)
Friday, November 21st, 2003
2:25 pm	And so it begins... The mountain that lies before me as I write glows rather then sparkles in this bright December sunshine. With seasons having turned there is an unmarked blanket of snow concealing the peak. The sky while bright blue looks cold, even the sun looks cold. I regret that I have not kept a diary earlier in my life, what a record that would have been! I must touch upon memories and try recalling/retelling happenings from the past. There is no need to separate memoir from diary and as I ramble along I'm sure I will bounce back and forth. It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way unlike I have before. Everything else has been fluff or assignments only temporary words on a page to be forgotten almost instantly after being completed. This is for permanence. To simply begin is the hardest part of most things in this life. Being no philosopher I can only reflect about the world through reflecting about my own adventures in it. Unfortunately I can not start to write about my current adventure because I only get 30 minutes of on-line time at this library before I am forced to sign off. I will just say that I am at a time in my life like non other, and am learning to enjoy it more and more each day. (5 Comments |Comment on this)