by mmooney | Mar 20, 2026 | The Friday Message
In 1967, well into the Vietnam Excursion, Joe McDonald and his San Francisco based psychedelic rock group released his most famous album. A song from the release, he later went on to perform at Woodstock— it seems so appropriate for today. The...
by mmooney | Mar 13, 2026 | The Friday Message
Hank and Megan headed off to Park City for his first official free ride competition last weekend. Hank spent most of this season developing his skills with a well-coached team in McCall. Free ride is a discipline focused on descending, natural un groomed mountain...
by mmooney | Mar 6, 2026 | The Friday Message
Against my own better discretion, I am going to follow up on last week’s ski trip highlights. The people we encountered including the diverse skier entourage from around the country were enjoyable. Well, you have to pick your spots, and the four guys in the...
by mmooney | Feb 27, 2026 | The Friday Message
The boys’ ski weekend, redux. Two years ago I reported on our trip to Eden, not the garden but a small city in Utah. It is on the shores-sort of- of Pine View Reservoir and high in the Wasatch Mountains. Three ski areas, Powder Mountain, Snowbasin and Nordic...
by mmooney | Feb 20, 2026 | The Friday Message
A day that should never leave our collective historical memory, February 19, 1942. FDR signed Executive Order 9066 which resulted in the military forcing relocation and incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans. Driven by wartime hysteria and...
