Island Park Skinny Ski Festival

My friend Jon's family has an awesome cabin in Island Park, ID. Island Park is mostly a snowmobile (argh!) area, but there are tons of awesome areas for nordic skiing. To get to the cabin, we skied in about 3 miles with our gear for the weekend packed on plastic sleds that we were pulling. Basically, the trip is about xc skiing, and then eating a bunch of good food. Jon made chili verde, and I made fajitas the next night. It was a fun weekend.

A few days before we were there it rained. Usually that makes the snow really suck, but the night before we drove up there it snowed about 5" or so. The rain crust wasn't easily breakable, so it made for easy traveling on the skinny skis. We found a couple of hills to ski down. I've never had so much fun going so slow downhill. XC skis can be kinda sketch on the downhill what with those soft boots with no support.

There were alot of trees on the hills we were skiing, so forget about the turns. The fun part was picking a line that was straight-lineable and hoping that you didn't crash into a tree.

One of the huge hills we skied down. Doesn't it look so scary and intimidating?


I crashed into a small tree.

Boog showing off his years of ski experience.
Jeff #1 watches Jeff #2 roll down the windows on a heinous descent.

Jeff #1 dressed like it is 20 below.


Looking for varmits while we were out and about as it were.

Dinnertime.

Me and the Mrs.


Island Park is awesome.