For Parker

Happy Birthday to Parker!!!! Your favorite color is purple right? Above are some of the best pictures I could find of Parker. All from his proudest moments of senior year.

1. At prom. I think Karen ran off somewhere and I found Parker sitting alone so I thought I'd be nice and take a picture with him.

2. In St. George. I believe we were supposed to be in a work shop class at the time. This was taken when Park realized he'd left his snack in the classroom.

3. New Years 2002 on Ryan Button's driveway. Parker was trying to be cool, and totally succeded!!

4. The bus ride home from California. I told Parker that his dreams of becoming an archeologist were unrealistic. . . I may have been wrong.

Love you Park!

Yay! Well I have a House! well, technically, I haven't "closed" the deal, but my offer has been accepted! 3 bed/2.5 bath and only 5 min. from school--I'm so happy

Mike and Colin climbing the Pfieferhorn (Little Matterhorn)

I'm getting better at posting, but I didn't put these pictures up chronologically and I'm too lazy to fix it. In fact, these pictures are in reverse chronological order, so this is on the way down. This is me sliding down the bowl above Red Pines Lake. Mike would throw boulders off the top of the mountain to try and trigger these mini avalanches. Eventually we decided to ride these avalanches down the bowl ... it was pretty much the coolest thing ever. The snow would make this 'sluffing' noise as it broke loose from the steep slope and slide down the bowl like a river.

I wish I had a better camera than just the one on my phone. This is the view looking south from the top of Mt. Pfieferhorn. The peak in the back left is Mt. Timpanogos.
Mike perched on the edge of the summit. Lone Peak is in the distance. The valley to the left is Lehi.
I'm pretty sure we were the first people to summit for the season. If you notice, there are no footsteps in front of me. The peak in the background is the Pfieferhorn. It's an optical illusion, because it doesn't really look all that big ... but it was huge.
Mike was the trailblazer for most of the ascent ... what a badass.
It was clear weather when we started hiking, we saw a storm roll in as we made our way above the lakes. It snowed on us pretty lightly.

The Long Board Adventurers

Looking for Adventure? Have a board ? how long is it ? pretty long? cause its got to be a decent length. If you answered yes to some of these questions then you may want to consider thinking about, one day, possibly joining THE LONG BOARD ADVENTURERS. Where ever theres danger and adventure and a pretty smooth path near by, with not too many big rocks and at least some hills to go down, you'll find THE LONG BOARD ADVENTURERS.

Heres some examples of one such Adventure:

Tail Grabs and Hip Swivels

That sign behind Brian read " No Being Awesome." But Brian covered it with a garbage bag we brought, and then continued on doing what he does best.

In the World of Long Boarding. Higher is better. Thanks Camera Guy.

Fellow Adventurer meets her Arch Nemesis for the first time: " Tiny Bridge"

I'm a Blogging. Just wanted to let everyone know, i'm ready to go. and I also wanted to see where this post ends up, when i push the "publish" button.

So this is a blog... hmmm... Thanks Landes for inviting me!

p.s. Lame Layout!

Seeing as you guys are new to the blogging world I just thought I'd let you know there are a ton of layouts out there that are much cooler than this one. . . . .

I'm honored!

I know that I put up a fuss but I'm honored to be included in The Alliance!! I will do my best to contribute. . . Once I figure out my stupid camera I will post some awesome pictures of us soon!

The Alliance

Bowing to popular opinion (as I rarely do), I have changed the title of the blog to "The Alliance." The URL is still http://ournetworkoffriends.blogspot.com, though. I've granted everyone admin privileges.

I concur...

...with Brian and Colin. I think "The Alliance" would be a fantastic blog name.

The Alliance

I vote for "The Alliance." It took me nearly an hour to figure out how to post, haha! I am completely unfamiliar with blogging, but I look forward to a long and successful experience with y'all. Thanks, Landes, for actually getting this going. I probably never would have.

Name...

I say we keep it as you set it up landes...for the name, i liked colin's idea of "the alliance."  I would maybe suggest that we extend it to be, "the BIC Alliance" but that's debatable since only Colin, Dave, Parker and I were there when BIC clique started but all of those cool enough to hang out with us consistently since the formation were inherently adopted in.

thanks Landes for starting it up...I think like most of us, I really don't know what to do with blogs...