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Well, not entirely, but close. There is really only one month where I don't spend very much time thinking about sledding, and that would be June. School is ending and for whatever reason, the administrators/teachers feel some sort of obligation to cram a whole bunch of stuff into the last couple of weeks. Plus, there's the final planning for family vacations, the kid's schedule, etc. June just flies by in a flurry most years. Seems like the shortest month on the calendar!

Then ...

It looks like the forecasters are calling for a La Nina year this winter. In fact, it appears that the data already supports a La Nina pattern and it is likely to strengthen further. Given that last year was a classic El Nino year, as predicted with a warmer and drier winter and wet spring/early summer, I think we would all welcome La Nina.

According to NOAA data, past Strong La Nina years have seen snowfalls 20%-40% above average in the Oregon/Washington Cascades and 15%-30% in ...

Well we are well into summer. It seems all I do is work lately. Fortunately I get to work double time so I can play hard in the winter. I am almost done with my engine swap in my Rhino (want to keep up with Tedd if I get to ride with him). Any fun I start to have is over whelmed by the thought of sledding again. I am already excited thinking of the WSSA expo. I love it so much that it almost excites me more than the thought of ridding right now. However the expo is too early in the year for ...

I just want to thank everyone for their support and for sending my commentary to others. I had no idea that when I decided to do this that the responses would be so overwhelming.

As I've written previously (although I cannot remember WHERE I wrote it!) I simply sat down with my heart - which was breaking and with great anger and wrote down what I was feeling. I wrote without stopping really, I'd been reading forums and news stories for two days, I knew what I wanted/needed to say. ...

Please feel free to distribute this message on forums, to the media, etc. If you want a pdf copy to distribute send me an email at susie.rainsberry@comcast.net

It’s time to honor the heros.
Written by Susie Rainsberry
March 15, 2010

It’s been several days now since the tragic avalanche at Turbo Hill. The latest reports are that two are deceased and three are still hospitalized. The media is also reporting that there were 200 snowmobilers at Turbo at the ...