TR kid stoke Living Traditions & spring skiing

[Shredgar]

Every year in May, there is a fun cultural fesitval in downtown SLC called Living Traditions.
It's one of my favorite things here; with food, music & crafts from around the world.

This year the food lineup was:

Hawaiian
Pakistani
Phillipine
Tongan
Tibetan
Lebanese
Salvadorian
Greek
Peruvian
Basque
Native American
Mexican
Scottish
Italian
Sudanese
Swiss
Chinese
Vietnamese
Bosnian
Thai

For dinner we had the Pakistani chicken kabobs with daal & samosas. It was excellent.

Out of respect for the hurricane devastation last year, the music headliners were from Louisiana.

Beausoleil played Friday night:



One of my favorite bands, they made their careers playing bars, clubs & house parties in Louisiana,
laying down the hard driving syncopated cajun beat & making people dance. I dare you to sit still
while listening to L'Ouragon (The Hurricane).

They've been touring for 30 years & drove the SLC crowd into a frenzy.

Here's Michael Doucet, their musical sorcerer fiddle player:



As part of the show they threw Mardi Gras beads to the crowd & we wore ours up skiing the next day.

Snowbird was running the Gadzoom, Little Cloud & Mineral Basin chairlifts, good fun in the sun:



Note she's on the 179cm Bro Models, the same ski Trackhead is using to bag
Teton summit descents. She likes them a lot. Splat, you've made a very versatile
high performance ski, thanks.

You go girl:





We met Meatdrink9 & CS in the Little Cloud line, good to meet you.
The kid got to hear about MD9 dropping huge cliffs at Snowbasin.

Rode the Mineral Basin chair with Endlessseason & Bushwacker, good to meet you too.
The kid got to hear about Endless's ski streak.

Passing on the culture. Living Traditions.

We shared a picnic lunch at 11,000', with fresh strawberrys stuffed with M&Ms for desert.

Life is sweet:



That evening we rode our bikes downtown. The Saturday headliner at Living Traditions
was the Dirty Dozen Brass Band:



They play what they call Second Line music, famous from the New Orleans tradition of funeral party parades.
Another rowdy dance scene, they got a bunch of women from the crowd up on the stage to dance
& had the crowd chanting "wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle shake those hips":



What a fun scene.

When the show ended, we got a ride from downtown up the hill to the University on the TRAX train &
rode our bikes home. Very civilized.

Remember spring is a verb.

[pechelman]

that line above the strawberry looks sweet...as does that strawberry.
I like to fill them with chocolate sauce though

[BushwackerinPA]

Yeah its was good to meet up with the "BRO" family.

too bad you two went right on down to lunch(well at least I thought you were going down turns out you ate at the top) or I would have skied with ya for alittle bit. See ya next year at Altabird.

[Shredgar]

Hi Bushwacker, yea the kid was hungry & we were headed for lunch. With kids you gotta keep the furnace topped off. Wish I'd talked her into waiting till the bottom & skied a run with you & Endless. Next time.

[BushwackerinPA]

yeah understand ...I am not too far removed from "kid" status I guess, especially considering some of you are older than my rents. but so much cooler in many ways. I just showed my parents the video from the hike up the twin peks and they were like "your crazy couldnt you have died?'

[meatdrink9]

Very cool. It was good to meet you. Skiing bros is like skiing with a "Got change for nickle" sign on your back. I hope my daughter will be into skiing as well when she gets a little older. Although I don't want her to be too into skiing. I want her to be able to learn from my mistakes.

[iceman]

Sorta hard to believe that the guy who started this nice thread is also the Unibonger.

[frozenwater]

Yeah, I don't get it either. If any of you know him he can certainly give me a holer at fred at teton gravity dot com and he can present his case.

However - his name and unibonger were both registered from the same ip addy. That there is some pretty hard shit to do and not be the same guy.

[hemas]

Sorta hard to believe that the guy who started this nice thread is also the Unibonger.

Yep, I was under the impression that UniBogner was a PNWestener living in Alaska... I have a faint recollection that some of the PNW-crew pointed it out.

[Mofro261]

No way is the Unibonger/Ullr907/Count Jongula/Long Duck Jong/? = Shredgar.

All of these Aliai reference AK / ex-PNW Alpental guy, not a Alta/LCC guy.

[iceman]

Somebody who's registered at TTips should ask him over there.

[Yeti]

Somebody who's registered at TTips should ask him over there.

Done. If Shredgar is Unibogner, I will be absolutely flabbergasted. He may ruffle feathers over here regarding Save-Our-Canyons-type issues, but he's definitely not the Unibogner.

[Hutch]

Yeah, I don't get it either. If any of you know him he can certainly give me a holer at fred at teton gravity dot com and he can present his case.

However - his name and unibonger were both registered from the same ip addy. That there is some pretty hard shit to do and not be the same guy.

Wow. I think there must be some explanation. Dr. Jekyll/Mr Hyde type of deal? Maybe Shredgar has a neighbor poaching his wifi?

[The Dad]

Yeah, I don't get it either. If any of you know him he can certainly give me a holer at fred at teton gravity dot com and he can present his case.

However - his name and unibonger were both registered from the same ip addy. That there is some pretty hard shit to do and not be the same guy.

Any possibility that IP belongs to an anonymizer? Or an ISP that relays in some way?

[iceman]

Done. If Shredgar is Unibogner, I will be absolutely flabbergasted. He may ruffle feathers over here regarding Save-Our-Canyons-type issues, but he's definitely not the Unibogner.

Any update?

[Cirquerider]

Really glad to see Shredgar got justice and is restored here. Looks like a great Memorial weekend with the daughter. The runs down along Little Cloud remind me of being with my daughter in the same place earlier this winter. Thanks for the memories.



Wanted to bump this up rather than continue the UniJONGer thread.

[Shredgar]

Thanks for the bump & cool photo.

Didn't ski on Memorial Day, the TR was from the weekend before. Couldn't get the kid out on skis Monday 5/31, she wanted to bike. That's fun too.

But I'm sad because I love to play in the snow, I knew Snowbird would be a fun & happy scene, Monday was the last lift served day for the season & also the last day for her to ski free (kids 12 & under ski free at Snowbird with a paid adult).

Am glad she wants to go play outdoors, good kid stuff. I've brainwashed her into thinking that the keys to health & beauty are exercise & good nutrition.

The world needs more women who rip & I'm trying to grow one.

[jwelch]

Am glad she wants to go play outdoors, good kid stuff. I've brainwashed her into thinking that the keys to health & beauty are exercise & good nutrition.

LOGIC!! We can't be having that!

Good on ya