My weekend trip to Idaho

UnoMOTO · Feb 5, 2008

Once a year I make a trip up to the fine state of Idaho to visit my college buddy of many years. The weekend is centered around the McCall winter ice festival. Each year a group of us ranging from 8 to 15 rent a cabin or house to relive our youthful days of random drunkeness. This year really wasn't highlighted by who was to pass out first but it was the staggering amount of snow in the area. I thought some of you might like to see a few of the shots from the weekend.

Location

The accomidations were very nice this year.

When you say BYOB at one of our trips, this is the response you're likely to get.

We think we had a stop sign at the corner of the street

The house next to us needed some snow removal on the roof to prevent a cave in.

Random cool house

The snow sculptures this year were not top notch due to more snow then normal

Mine is bigger then yours

A bit of home so far away

The group

Yeah...we have a little captin in us

Icicles everywhere

Beautiful stuff everywhere you look

Thank you for stopping in to take a look!

Loon · Feb 5, 2008

Jeez you always take a lot of pics in these threads of yours. If I was at computer capable of viewing them I'd comment more, but for now this is all I got.

Solid Lifters · Feb 5, 2008

Great pics! I was trying to get warm under some blankets, and after seeing your pics I started to shiver like mad. Gotta' start all over again... :grumpy:

Pako · Feb 5, 2008

Looks like a cool trip! 👍 I like all that white fluffy stuff.

By the way, is that a Grateful Dead head, with a couple Deadhead Teddy's next to it?

Looks like you weren't too far from home:

UnoMOTO · Feb 5, 2008

Loon
Jeez you always take a lot of pics in these threads of yours. If I was at computer capable of viewing them I'd comment more, but for now this is all I got.

Multi media my friend! learn it, live it, love it!

Solid Lifters
Great pics! I was trying to get warm under some blankets, and after seeing your pics I started to shiver like mad. Gotta' start all over again...

I'm sure it never went above 30F while I was there.

Pako
Looks like a cool trip! 👍 I like all that white fluffy stuff. By the way, is that a Grateful Dead head, with a couple Deadhead Teddy's next to it?

I was thinking I had seen that skull before, but I'm no Deadhead. I'm old but not that old.

Looks like you weren't too far from home:

Dang...I didn't realise you were that far north.

Diego440 · Feb 5, 2008

Awesome pics Brian... I had some good memories from seeing those pics, about the couple of blizzards I endured in college. The wife and I had a good time watching these pics.

UnoMOTO · Feb 5, 2008

-Diego-
Awesome pics Brian... I had some good memories from seeing those pics, about the couple of blizzards I endured in college. The wife and I had a good time watching these pics.

Thanks, I'm glad I could take you way back.

Kylehnat · Feb 6, 2008

Awesome pictures! Looks like you had a real nice place there, too.

exigeracer · Feb 6, 2008

I've always wanted to go over to Idaho, especially in this time of year. Those pictures pretty much show exactly why. I love it.

Thanks!

SolidSnake15 · Feb 6, 2008

Those are some pretty nice photos. I like the skull, unfortunately I have never seen snow.

300zxfairman · Feb 6, 2008

Yeah i miss the snow too.Wakeing up in the moring the first day it snowed everythings white woooooowww I miss them days.unfortunately u dont see snow in FL unless you look into your freezer! :indiff:

Picc84 · Feb 6, 2008

Nice man! Awesome pictures? May I ask why kind of camera? If they were larger they'd so be wallpapered!

Azuremen · Feb 6, 2008

You making me miss home. I am from north of Spokane in WA, and I miss the snow right now

McCall is a nice place out of the way. I've driven through there a few times on trips down to Utah and its just a nice place to get away to. Fun roads too in the area

Yeah, heavy winter this year in the inland northwest though... quite a bit more snow than usual. Gotta love it though.

Sureboss · Feb 6, 2008

Wow, that's one hell of a lot of snow. Britain comes to stand still after an inch of the stuff.

Azuremen · Feb 6, 2008

Sureshot
Wow, that's one hell of a lot of snow. Britain comes to stand still after an inch of the stuff.

What kind of a nation can build an empire but not handle a little snow?

Oh wait, the French :dopey:

UnoMOTO · Feb 6, 2008

exigeracer
I've always wanted to go over to Idaho, especially in this time of year. Those pictures pretty much show exactly why. I love it.

Thanks!

Idaho is very diverse and much different then I had pictured. Around the Boise it is more desert like then I had ever imagined.

SolidSnake15
Those are some pretty nice photos. I like the skull, unfortunately I have never seen snow.

Thats one reason that I had to move away from Arizona after college. They just don't have any seasons in the desert.

Picc84
Nice man! Awesome pictures? May I ask why kind of camera? If they were larger they'd so be wallpapered!

I truly don't feel like I really know how to use my camera yet. Most everything is shot in the auto mode. I want to understand the manual settings so I can really bring my pictures to life. I'm thinking of taking some classes to edjamacate myself.

Send me a PM with the pictures that you would like and I give you the full size version.

Sony DSC-H9

Azuremen
You making me miss home. I am from north of Spokane in WA, and I miss the snow right now

McCall is a nice place out of the way. I've driven through there a few times on trips down to Utah and its just a nice place to get away to. Fun roads too in the area

Yeah, heavy winter this year in the inland northwest though... quite a bit more snow than usual. Gotta love it though.

I'd say that you really haven't seen trees until you get up to the northwest part of our country. Even being from Colorado, I was shocked in areas like Portland on how many trees there really are up there.

McCall does have some fantastic roads to travel! It's a great mix of twisties and straits to get your blood moving.

Most of Idaho has been in drought like conditions for many years so this winter is a huge blessing to the farmers. ICANHAZPOTATOS

Sureshot
Wow, that's one hell of a lot of snow. Britain comes to stand still after an inch of the stuff.

It was kinda funny that even in Bosie, two days after a 3 inch snow that some of the schools were still closed due to the driving conditions. Some people just don't know how to slow down.

Azuremen · Feb 6, 2008

UnoMOTO
I'd say that you really haven't seen trees until you get up to the northwest part of our country. Even being from Colorado, I was shocked in areas like Portland on how many trees there really are up there.

McCall does have some fantastic roads to travel! It's a great mix of twisties and straits to get your blood moving.

Most of Idaho has been in drought like conditions for many years so this winter is a huge blessing to the farmers. ICANHAZPOTATOS

I am from the mountains in the northwest... so I know how many trees there are :confused:

Spokane is in eastern Washington. Which is the Evergreen state... I've been all over the west coast and inland northwest.

So, yeah? :boggled:

EDIT: Unless by "you" you mean "you all," meaning the whole of forum.

And nice Konica-Minolta

I refuse to call them a Sony, since they just bought the design and everything from Konica-Minolta for that Cybershot. Very nice cameras, and do anything and everything. Except for what some pros need. dSLRs are over-rated, to be honest. Good camera does not equal good pictures. A good photographer does.

Robin · Feb 6, 2008

Great pics! The snow really looks beautiful and thick, cannot believe how piled up it is on things!

The accommodation looked really sweet also..

Robin

kikie · Feb 28, 2008

I must have missed this thread. That is a lot of snow! It must have been more that 10 years that I saw that much snow, even in Austria.

Those snow sculptures are incredible!

Very nice photos! I like snow!

FoolKiller · Feb 28, 2008

It has been over a decade since Kentucky has even seen more than six inches at one time.

I would love some heavy duty snowfall around here. Of course, I somehow think I would still have to go to work.

Anyway, I love snow and I am now thinking a northwest trip may be in the future. Your Man Tours does an Alaska and the Great Northwest tour.

That will probably be after the HDTV, Disney at New Year's (because my wife is insane), and the Route 66 driving trip.

UnoMOTO · Feb 28, 2008

Robin.
Great pics! The snow really looks beautiful and thick, cannot believe how piled up it is on things!

Thats actually a bit strange. With huge amounts of snow like that you usually get the wind blowing and you might see more areas that have snow drifts. To see that much snow at full depth without drifting makes it that much more impressive.

kikie
Those snow sculptures are incredible!

They were better the year before.

FoolKiller
It has been over a decade since Kentucky has even seen more than six inches at one time.

I would love some heavy duty snowfall around here. Of course, I somehow think I would still have to go to work.

If your city has enough snow plows.

That will probably be after the HDTV, Disney at New Year's (because my wife is insane), and the Route 66 driving trip.

Yes...the TV needs to come next. Vacations only last a few weeks. A TV can be used everyday.

FoolKiller · Feb 29, 2008

UnoMOTO
If your city has enough snow plows.

When my executive team is in New York do you think they understand that three inches is crippling to us? No. And as a manager I am expected to be here, no matter what.

Yes...the TV needs to come next. Vacations only last a few weeks. A TV can be used everyday.

Well, it occured to me a couple of days ago, what do I do with my 48" projection screen I have now?

UnoMOTO · Feb 29, 2008

FoolKiller
Well, it occured to me a couple of days ago, what do I do with my 48" projection screen I have now?

Mine was on craigs list for less then 24 hours before I had a buyer. I also had four waiting in line to pick it up. For the right price you would easily get rid of it.

FoolKiller · Feb 29, 2008

UnoMOTO
Mine was on craigs list for less then 24 hours before I had a buyer. I also had four waiting in line to pick it up. For the right price you would easily get rid of it.

Yeah, just mentioning it to a coworker this morning got me an offer for $150.

I'm thinking about taking it as it is a 10-year-old set.

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