better late than never

So I figured that since this was started after most of the cabin trips, I might as well do a little run down on how the others went.  Probably can't give you all the details, but the ones that are crisp will appear below:

Cabin Trip One: MLK 
Where did we ride? Homewood, Alpine

When past attendees think about the MLK cabin trip, the first mob to Tahoe, one word comes into mind: EPIC. After an All Cal that was sure to have rocked everyone's world and a long winter break, most people can't wait to get back on the mountain during the Martin Luther King long weekend.  The club usually rents two cabins and shuttles 100-120 eager college students ready to outdo anyone and everyone in the rage factor.  Butterflies knot the stomachs of returning staff and officers in the inevitable fun that is about to persist.  Everyone came with their silly hats to wear on Saturday excited to meet the rest of the people who were bound to show up.

Beer Olympics.  What team would you represent? Would you wage a holy rage war with Vatican City?  Or would you murk your opponents with the I.R.A from Ireland?  Or maybe you like to swing a different way, why not join DVDA?  Whichever side you would like to take, the Beer Olympics are always a great way to see who the gnarliest of the gnar are.  I DO believe the IRA took it this year? Oi!


Cabin Trip Two: 'Merrrrika!
Where did we ride? Alpine, Homewood
 
 On this cabin trip we all got down and dirty with our red neck selves.  Tattoos of PBR cans started popping up on upper arms, wife beaters and short shorts emerged and we even had a record number of gingers show up on Saturday!  Only one cabin was rented this trip, but this one cabin was all we needed.  In the middle of the house, there was a stair case, and on this stair case there were carpeted stairs.  I'm not sure if you took math in highschool but the equation goes like this:

stairs + carpet (socks) x drank = bruised tailbone

I personally fell down the stairs twice, once with two cups in my hand (only spilled a little!)  When decisions started getting a little crazy, there was even an incident of two bodies at the same time; one may or may have not been head first.  There was no hot tub on the porch, unfortunately, but there WAS pulled pork sandwiches that had been roasting in a crock pot for about 10 hours (or something like that) - Thanks John Bird, you're the breast.

As the rednecks laid their trucker hats to rest, so did Mother Nature's snow machine.  No snow the weekend of cabin trip two, but much shredding did in sue.

Cabin Trip Three: NOR-CAL

Where did we ride? Homewood, Alpine, Northstar

Norcal, The motherload of all cabin trips.  If you want to go on at least one trip in your life, Norcal would be the one to go on.  This cabin trip is a lot like AllCal, except in Tahoe.  All the UCs travel with their own members and lodge around the same areas so that everyone can hop from cabin to cabin with ease.  UC Davis, Santa Cruz, San Diego, Berkeley, Irvine, LA, and Santa Barbara all showed up ready to claim the Norcal cup as their own.  If you aren't familiar with how AllCal/Norcal works, its simple.  All the schools compete in a number of events and the school that scores the highest by the end of the weekend gets their name engraved on a solid gold trophy. With diamonds....or it could just be a really convincing looking plastic cup.  I'll let you be the judge.  

The events that we compete in are:

• Flip cup
• Boat race
• Thumper
• Race the mountain
• Dirrrrty dacing
• Fun race (AllCal)
• Nastar (AllCal)

Davis was able to claim the Norcal Cup as theirs last year and was confident that they could do it again.  The race the mountain competition is usually done on a neutral mountain in which no one has really skied before, but this year it was done on Alpine, our home mountain - of course we kicked ass.  Congratulations to UCLA on winning flip cup, they actually just started up their club and took a whopping 40 members up to Tahoe!  The boat races were fun. My favorite part, actually.  Davis and Santa Barbara were to be the schools that started off the boat races, paired up accordingly since we both are similar in our chugging ability. Well, kinda.  As soon as the race began, it was already over with Davis beating Santa Barbara by more than a full cup.  We could have been faster if we had more boys than girls, but we didn't.  We like to strive for equality.
On Sunday night all the schools traveled to a location in which no one would be extrememly responsible (in past years we would all meet up at one schools cabin.  Lets just say it got a little expensive with damage charges.)  This year we went to a bar and pizza place that was located in Tahoe City.  The theme was rock stars and super heroes, and shit, everyone looked pretty damn fly.  The inside was raging with color, DJing by both Iain Lowis and Will Baur, and blue mohawks.  It was my third Norcal, and I would have to say that it had to be one of the most epic cabin trips, let alone Norcals, that I have been on thus far.  STOKED for next year.


Cabin Trip Four:  Our last hurrah
Where did we ride? Alpine, Homewood

I already gave you a little dosage of this cabin trip.  Go to the last post, I'm way to lazy to summarize again...but I will show you a funny picture of one of the nights on the trip:

XTREME HUG

So there you have it! That's a little sumin' sumin' about each cabin trip we go on during the winter season.  When I scrounge up AllCal pictures (my camera was 'stolen'...okay lost at a bar) I'll post some shit about the motherload of all trips, the cream of the crop, holy shit did that just happen, BEST trip you could ever decide to go on in your entire life.  News at 11!