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ps we did the first kiln fire since i ve been working at the purple peacock i wanted to learn everything i could so i helped load the kiln under the watchful eye of a bona fide potter and artist i am so thankful that these women are so eager to share their knowledge and nurture my learning about this ancient art form nighty night naked clay tomorrow you ll be ready for glaze pottery is fired twice once to bake the clay and again to bake the glaze each time the kiln is unloaded its like christmas morning you never quite know whether everything will survive being exposed to 2000 degrees for several hours and after glazing you just don t know how the different glaze colors will interact with each other once they are exposed to so much heat so every piece is its own little science experiment this is everything that came out after the glaze fire from all of the potters at the studio this is just my stuff not sure any of it qualifies me as a potter but at least its functional two days later right back at it with sunday looking on of course i still don t know if i m allowed to call myself a potter but i m going to anyway because yesterday i ate my cheerios out of a bowl i made with my own hands my cheerios my bowl i declare myself a potter labels co pottery road trip when we first decided to spend the winter here we foolishly calculated that it would be cheaper to just buy new winter gear than to trek all the way to arizona to retrieve our stuff from storage at the time i think i was thinking we d just need xc skiis and some winter socks if i wasn t so obsessed with doing all the things that probably would have been accurate but i missed my goretex snowpants and my flat light goggles and my favorite mittens and winter won t last forever so i also know that soon enough i ll miss my tent and my large backpack and the mtb rack for my car time to visit the storage unit the trip took me from the snowy mountains of colorado to the warm desert of arizona sunrise at home ouray co ridgway co about 15 miles from home mountain village colorado about 50 miles from home rt 145 south of ophir colorado looking at the mountain they appropriately call the matterhorn less snow and smaller mountains in cortez colorado about 113 miles from home starting to look like the desert on the ute reservation in the farthest part of southwestern colorado more desert with the promise of snowy mountains ahead in teec nos pos arizona 160 miles from home more flat dry brown desert kayenta az 220 miles from home boring boring boring tuba city az 293 miles from home so many decisions this time to flagstaff but next time that was the first day there was lots of singing along to all the music i only listen to when alone e g indigo girls and obviously snapping photos out the windshield i spent the night at a hotel in flagstaff went for a hike the next morning and then headed to tucson early spring in all its muddy glory in ft tuthill park in flagstaff 388 miles from home south of flagstaff on i 17 427 miles from home north phoenix 530 miles from home and where the traffic starts to get obnoxious picacho peak on the hiking bucket list since 2012 south of phoenix and 600 miles from home finally at my destination in tucson 600 miles from home welcomed by these two lovebugs the best part of the road trip other than liberating my snowboard from storage was spending time with great friends from arizona kerri and kate we went out to dinner drank wine complained about the current state of affairs and played cards against humanity trump version so much laughter kate kerri and me dinner on a patio one of the benefits of february in the desert if you haven t experienced cards against humanity you need to right now my sides still hurt from laughing on the second day in tucson i drove down to sierra vista home of ft huachuca and our storage unit i was a little surprised at the absence of the wow factor i used to have when driving towards these mountains side effect of living in colorado i guess sierra vista arizona we lived here from 2012 2014 and again for a few months in 2016 there are few things as beautiful as a sunset in southern arizona my snowboard my mtb rack i m sorry i left you in the storage unit for so long having liberated the important stuff from the storage unit gotten my girl fix with kerri kate and loved on some doodledogs i turned the car around and headed back to my pack and the colorado mountains mission accomplished labels az co full time rv life travels ouray ice fest 2019 there are actually people out there who on purpose trek into a cavern where the sun doesn t shine in the middle of winter and then spend the day with their entire bodies pressed against a giant slab of ice i am not one of those people not me obviously nope not me here either now you may recall that i was planning to take an ice climbing course last month i was all about trying new things but ended up canceling my registration because my arms and chest just aren t strong enough yet to pull my overweight body up an ice wall by just my hands but ouray is the self declared ice climbing capital of the world and i wasn t about to miss out on the biggest event of the year ice fest so i hitched my ice axe to the most awesome women s adventure group ever chicks with picks a k a chicks climbing and skiing these are the same women with whom i took the avalanche rescue course back in november this year was their 20th anniversary so they were hosting a big party and had a booth at the fest i volunteered to help them decorate the community center for the party and man the booth for a day during the festival it was a blast i came home and told doug i had finally found my tribe handing out energy bars and hot tea to the climbers at the chicks booth sunday was an honorary chick for the day dj bibi mcgill who s last gig was as a guitarist for beyonce spinning the tunes at the anniversary party my tribe adventurous women who drink beer earnyourturns who says an old dog can t learn new tricks i haven t been on downhill skis since i traded in my twin sticks for a snowboard in 1997 i love snowboarding really really really love snowboarding but a snowboard requires a lift ticket at a resort and a lift ticket at a resort these days requires a trust fund however backcountry skiing requires only legs lungs and determination screw you big corporate ski area charging 200 for one day on a stupid chairlift now theoretically backcountry snowboarding is a thing but it requires a wicked expensive splitboard backcountry skiing requires alpine touring gear that allows the heel to be free on the up and locked down on the down if you re still confused there s a good overview of them all here anyway last month i set out on a quest to find either a splitboard or at ski setup at a reasonable cost thanks to the wonders of the internet i found a bottomless bin of reasonably priced used at gear it quickly became apparent that a splitboard would be way out of my budget so this old dog set out to learn some new tricks on twin sticks pretty huh again not my color choice but cheap the skis were being sold by a woman in glenwood springs which was an excellent excuse for a road trip to a new piece of colorado finn spent the night with his bff and sunday donned her service vest for an overnight stay in a hotel that once served as a navy hospital oh and it was also a good opportunity to check out two new breweries because beer that s her there better be treats if you re going to make me work look once we returned to ouray i got the skis tuned and boot liners molded and set out for my first skiing adventure avalanche danger here has been nuts this winter so i picked a very safe route on an unplowed jeep road far from any avy paths the skin up was fantastic it was a beautiful route lined with big snow covered pines and quiet so very quiet well i figured out how to get the boots on everything into walk mode and into the bindings its a start so much better than sitting on a chairlift somebody else on twin sticks had been here so i must be in the right place the skin up was pretty damned empowering i was super proud of myself for diving into something totally new and killing it i took lots of pictures i laughed i thought about how amazing my life was i even took a selfie at the top and texted it to doug then i peeled the skins off locked down my heels and pointed those tips downhill and it became immediately apparent that i was in way over my head i face planted i ate snow i face planted again i purposely threw myself into a snowbank to avoid hitting a giant tree it wasn t pretty i was frustrated i took my skis off and started to just walk back to the bottom but then i remembered how good it felt to tackle something new and i put those skis back on and tumbled my way back to the bottom thankful that there weren t any other humans or dogs here to witness my own personal shitshow then i texted doug and told him i needed to go do something i was actually good at and drowned my frustrations in an ipa at ouray brewery the fact that their ipa is named powder day just seemed to be unnecessary mocking at that point it took me awhile to get back out there but i did and it went much better this time i chose a less steep and much wider jeep road no face plants and i actually made some pretty turns no beer needed afterwards either plenty of room to make turns on the way back down temps in the high 20s but still hot sweaty on the way up feeling much more confident about the trip down this time so yeah an old dog can learn new tricks i still love my snowboard but this twin sticks thing might work out ok labels backcountry co skiing travels glenwood springs area breweries 1 carbondale beer works in the heart of the impossibly adorable town of carbondale right next to the post office is this little gem of a brewery the beer was good and our appetizer of pretzels with beer cheese was really really good the bartender was a little surly but we had a great conversation with a furloughed forest service employee who was begrudgingly passing her free time at the bar 2 glenwood canyon brewing this one barely gets a meh the beer was just ok and the food was good only because we were really hungry it was one of those big restaurant types of breweries think rock bottom or yard house that has put the craft of making good beer and food on the back burner while it focuses on having the biggest menu of crap in town definitely won t return here labels brewery reviews co downsizing is highly overrated we ve been a one car family since the fall of 2016 it was part of the downsizing and while driving a ginormous dualie in the tiny streets of san antonio was a pain in the ass we made it work parking this monster is always a challenge but then it snowed have you ever driven a dualie in snow i don t recommend it ergo i was too afraid to drive on the muddy snowy unmaintained forest service roads to do the hikes i really wanted to do i was constantly worried about getting to a trailhead only to be not able to turn the dualie around to get back out it was seriously cramping my style and then i got stuck in snowbank in front of the post office i couldn t get the chains on because dualie in a snowbank a nice codot guy driving a bucketloader took pity on me and plowed me out but that was the snowflake that broke the camel s back so i employed the i could be dead tomorrow theory and bought me a car a bright orange car i love my subaru even if it is orange this is my fourth subaru all the others were blue outbacks and it is just perfect if given the choice i wouldn t have picked the color but its growing on me this thing goes anywhere i ve driven it over and through snowbanks and up and down ice covered mountain roads without a second thought it gets me where i want to go every time without fail and it averages 30 35 m p g vs the 10 15 on the dualie and can park in the tiniest of spaces i have no idea what we ll do with it once we start traveling again but i ll obsess over that when the snow melts labels full time rv life travels 05 january 2019 it never gets old snow snow snow you ve heard me say that before i know but it never gets old especially since i rarely have to be anywhere at a set time don t have to travel for work and don t have to shovel my own driveway and its so damn pretty view from the rv in the spring i ll post all of these photos again to see the transition from season to season no filter here that s really what the red rocks look like under a fresh snow since the last post i ve done some amazing xc skiing see here in colorado you just dip into pretty much anywhere in the national forest and start skiing none of that groomed shit thank you very much sometimes there are snowmobile tracks sometimes you just plow through the powder and when i say powder i mean like legit oh my effing frosty no friends on a powdah day business closed due to powdah kind of powder the kind that if you fall on purpose of course it just fluffs up and disappears for this new england girl read master of bulletproof ice and death cookies its like being in heaven every damn day this is at the end of county route 14a one of my favorite xc routes look at all that powdah same spot different day different angle view from cr 14 toward the sneffles range again i will state publicly that doug is going to have a hell of a time convincing me to ever leave here until all the summer tourists with screaming children come then i ll flee like the wind the pups seem to approve of this backcountry nordic skiing too something about a human skiing almost out of control down a long downhill that fires up their herding instincts btw you really haven t lived until you ve skied with a bc and an aussie herding each other and barking their heads off for the entire 4 miles trust me on this one action shot treat as if these pups weren t lucky enough we also walk by the ouray meat cheese market on our way to the post office nearly every day which means that after every good run in the snow they get to gnaw on a little cow leg yeah i think doug s going to have a hard time convincing the pups to leave here too when i m not on the snow i m pursuing my other re found passion pottery i worked out a deal with the owner of the studio in which i work in the studio in exchange for free clay studio time firing glazing etc the studio also serves as display space for local artists so i ve met some really cool very talented colorado artists while i m working my wheel at the studio oh yeah sunday has her own chair too life is good here on the western slope i still pinch myself several times a day to make sure i m not just dreaming sunday getting pets and peanuts in front of the fire at mr grumpy pants brewing co a friend shared this little gem today nailed it labels co fur kids pottery san juans xc older posts home subscribe to posts atom reviews brewery reviews trail reviews posts 2019 7 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