friends

Seattle fireman Kevin Curd lives near the goods at Hyak, Washington Kam Leang builds his own skis and teaches mechanical engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno Michael Trommsdorff comes from France to ski "la poudreuse" in the great Northwest Corinne Jeuch taught me the wisdom of couscous in the mountains Greg Louie lives in Lake Forest Park and manages a Chinese restaurant Mike O'Brien builds custom bicycle frames and lives in the Mapleleaf neighborhood of Seattle Francine Curd lives at Hyak and works for Booth Creek Resorts Frank Neumann is a retired engineer originally from Germany Jessica Levine logs on at TAY as "sheispiste" but I've never seen her angry . . . Chris Cass lives in Bellevue and works for an environmental consulting firm Allyson Spacek teaches special ed kids in Reno, NV Skip Swenson can eat more than you would think . . . Cyclist/skier Monika Johnson is a trailbreaking machine Paul Russell is a hardcore climber turned skier Kelvin Wu is one of the principals in skibuilders.com Lowell Skoog was one of the first people I knew to try backcountry skiing Tim Petrick is the man at ski company "R" in Moirans, France Holly Walker Davis is a rippin' skier and counts well, too Seth Davis is a big mountain skier with the motor of an ex-Cat 1 bike racer Crispin Prahl does it all with his heels flopping John Mauro sometimes rides his bike to the skiing