Tahoe Shenanigans

Greetings from Tahoe!

As both of our summer research positions in the bay area have been wrapping up, we have been spending some high-key quality time together. Below are some highlights:

Dylan only rollerskies on snow now          

Homemade grub. Missing: Grublord                                    Carbang leads a banger core sesh. 

                                                                                                  She watches as Dylan cries. 

Suede+ croissants =Looks like Dylan's in his element    

Carmen crushing Dylan in a mountain bike descent. 

View from our OD in the de Young Museum

Homemade German cookies!

Köstlich!!

Soft smiles only. 

Roaming the streets of SF

See you purple cows soon (but not too soon!)back in the purple valley, 

Carmen and Dylan 

Summer in BTV

Hi everyone! I have had a crazy busy summer working, training, and traveling. I was pretty hyped to be in Burlington (the best city, and maybe perhaps the only city shhh) and in Vermont (the best state, duh). I had some good times with my sister Quincy and had a lot of fun training with MNC and my fellow pugs.

For the first part of the summer I worked on a poster presenting some of the lab research I was helping with on river water quality in Cuba. I got to present my poster in Montreal which was a nerve-wracking yet fun experience. Later in the month I traveled to Cuba to get more data!

After I finished working as a lifeguard at a Parks and Rec summer camp, my family traveled to Italy and Spain. We saw tons of Greek and Roman ruins and ate many a meal of delicious pasta. Quincy and I hiked some epic routes, including up the two volcanoes Mt. Etna and Mt. Vesuvius.

I am so excited to get back on campus and I can't wait to train with y'all. See you soon!

The Crunch Gang and myself take on Mt. Mansfield

I got to present some of the Cuban water quality research in a conference in Montreal! 

View of some tower carst in Cuba! learning some ~geology~ terms. So beautiful. 

Biking to the Causeway, an old railroad track converted to a bikepath that crosses Lake Champlain!

Skiing in the App Gap with my Williams "uniform"

Found a purple Milka cow in the Munich airport! 

Some dope greek ruins in Italy

Hiking Mt. Etna (an active volcano! scary) which was a large grind. I felt like we were hiking on the moon! 

Intact Roman mosaics depicting the original female pentathletes. They were nicknamed the "Bikini Girls" but they are actually dressed in sports attire and doing some track stuff which is dope. 

Lil Q and my hydration vest, which I wore touristing. Would recommend, honestly quite handy to have water all the time 

Found a bike park near the medieval mountain town of Erice!

some views of the Med

Clearly about to run in the Barcelona '92 Olympics on the Olympic track... too bad we couldn't actually run on it.

Lyme and Lyme

This summer I'm working with some of our most notorious alumni, Jordan F. Fields and Evan Dethier  as a field and lab assistant, counting plenty of rocks, shooting more than enough ~lazher~ beams, and training my buns off.

Lots of running on the AT, skiing on Route 10, and also coaching the junior ski team around here (Ford Sayre) on Tuesdays.

(also contracting Lyme disease while living in Lyme, NH: christ)

Here's a pic of me shooting lasers

And Jordan rejoicing upon finally recovering one of his accelerometers after a three day digging battle in ice cold water.

Me squattin' in some poison ivy on the White River

Taking a passive tracer survey

The best way to walk a dog:

Evan almost falling in the river (I fell in afterwards)

Joint birthday celebration on the porch

Storm Chasing for turbidity's sake

Jordan's "headphones"

Smarts Mountain!

 We've also been travelling around and doing lots of field work at other dam removal sites in Maine, in Burke, VT, and near Amherst, MA.

I've also been gathering as much information as possible about how the Dartmouth ski team operates, their deepest secrets, and what we can do to take them down this coming winter. One of my theories is that their success may lie in the fact that they've got saunas in both the men's and women's locker rooms, while I know this may seem like a big ask for our severely limited budget, I feel that performance is the top priority, and in my humble opinion, a sauna could be our competitive edge over their teams. (yes, the weevils and mice can share)

Hope everyone is having a good end of the summer, my apologies for the very late post :(

God save the queen,

-Sir De LuSaacque

Food and Fun in the Sunny Valley

Here's yet another update from the valley of the sun. Featuring only the most beautiful photos of foods and the dorkiest pictures of my teammates. We've been keeping busy with all sorts of fun activities including but not limited to mountain biking, peak bagging cooking, eating, and of course, just hanging out.

First, just a few of our especially photogenic dinners! 

Beet Soup with homemade garlic bread

  French toast courtesy of Galena Lodge
I can't take credit for making this but its too pretty
not to be included in the food montage

Carrot and Kale Curry

Roasted veggies with sweet tahini sauce

The new second breakfast obsession is Oatmeal Pancakes 

(thanks Quaker oats for the recipe)

Pretty Cakes

Excited Ingrid (food edition)

Happy Ivy

Just in case you think all we've been doing this summer is eating, here's the training update

We've been on some stunning mountain climbing adventures.
Here we are sitting on top of Grey's Peak looking at the Pioneer range.

When we're not rollerskiing we're BIKING!
Here we are mid-ride looking at the sawtooth mountains in the distance. 

Excited Ingrid (mountains edition)

Here's me standing on top of Hyndman peak (12,009 ft) 

And here is the view from the top of Hyndman

Grinding out the Galena Grinder. 

I decided that it would be a good idea to do a bike race called the Galena grinder. My dad and brother drove up to try it as well. My brother and I did the 25-mile course which had a little over 3,000 feet of climbing (ouch). Everyone survived and I think the race might have even been fun. 

     

Getting the bikes ready

The view at the start from the middle of the pack

Still smiling 25 miles later

More Fun Stuff...

                 
                       

                               Hammocking by the river

Second Breakfast

Slack Lining

        

Hawt Springs