Operation Legacy a Success

I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone involved with making Operation Legacy such a huge and resounding success. We Dominated hard, we Dominated with authority, and we did not give in to the mountain. And YEAH... we did a little skiing. So stick that in your pipe and smoke it Mr. Anton Bryce!

Some of my favorite highlights:

Quick trip up... Tom not knowing that we were there on Friday... Baker's stories... That first pitcher (and every pitcher) of Extreme... Dominating first tracks... Camel Crush... Baker telling the front desk to turn Thorpe away when he showed up... Texting Tom from the lift pretending we were on the road... Listening to Steel Panther relentlessly... Recording an acoustic version of Van Halen's "Dreams"... Hallelujah... Watching Ski School 3 times... An encore viewing of Baseketball... Finishing 2 cases of room beer in addition to going out (no wonder so many people hit a wall)... Bang, bang, bang... Tai Chi... Are horsies pretty?... Baker taking Thorpe down a double diamond mogul trail on his skis... The pen is mightier... Checking out the casino... Actually running out of Extreme (not a highlight, just amazing)... Solid Metric lunches (and then some)... Not fitting the Dolomites into the Recons... Tom saying good bye to the lame Scott poles... Jim skiing his last days on the Dolomites... Thin Cover on Buzz... Dominating the North Side... Hitting last chair at Soliel... Incredible Dick's Chicken... Facebook almost ruining the Metric Lunch (again, not a highlight)... Generalissimo Volant... Pete's personal pitcher... Smoking cigars out by the bonfire... Bacon bourbon at 8:17 AM... Fast border crossings... The Tiger Woods Beauty Pageant... Beaver Tails... Wild Boar sausage... A fast ride home.

I'm sure there are tons of things I'm forgetting. PQFI, feel free to fill in some blanks. I intend to have some footage spliced together soon to go with my new boots.

Let's rock the offseason and remember that PQFI... stick your thumb in her eye... I think.

Dominate!

Full Circle

Ok guys, Operation Legacy was so awesome, and I thank you all.

I have some important information to share.... so, stay with me here.
Hang on to your butts and get ready for something amazing:

The guitarist of Steel Panther, Russ Parrish (stage name "Satchel") is also the leader of his very own band called The Thornbirds.

The bass player for The Thornbirds is none other than Dean Cameron, a.k.a. Dave Marshak of Ski School.

Lose your mind...
We've made a connection from Ski School to Steel Panther!!?!
1999 to 2010, the circle is now complete.

PLUS, Dean Cameron directed a promotional video for Steel Panther song, "Fat Girl".

Are you kidding me!?!?

The Ride Up

Mission Accomplished

Afternoon...

Complete and total mountain domination. We promised 5 runs off of the TGV and we delivered. Apres at La Diable, dinner at Le Shack, and dessert at Beaver Tails.

Watching Ski School as Baker dies and Tom disappears.

Damn Matt Humphrey

Wild Boar!

More This Morning...

Dominated over two hours of first tracks. Tom convinces us for one more run. Tom then stays out to Dominate until lunch. Thorpe can't even move to go shopping. Eating more Dick and chips while watching CNN. Some lady from South Carolina didn't call 911 when her house was burning down because she thought the fire department would charge her $300 dollars for the service. Baker is dead, but is slowly coming back to life and Jim is dying laughing about all the wonderful Facebook exchanges Jen and Tobio are having.

Metric Lunch coming up and we're havin' ribs. Domination directly to follow.

This morning...

We think Keith is still drunk. He just ate three plates of dick for breakfast and had an extra plate last night. We just watched a cartoon show where a gorilla put cartoon characters in a bag and then broke a chair over the bag. Keith fell asleep on the chair for three hours and woke up naked with his phone in one hand and his iPod in the other wondering exactly what happened. Cigars and bacon bourbon were both dominated by the fire. Pete is eying first tracks this morning. Jim really wants a potato chip, but may die. Keith is now eating potato chips instead. Tom was just told that his options were dick, chips, or Triscuits... for breakfast. Good footage of moguls coming up.

Tom, we missED you...

La Diable

Late night - PQFI all the way.

Soon to be Captain Baker, and Captain Pete, enjoying some late night
libations after a nice cigar at the bonfire.....first tracks are a
mortal lock for this guy .... Write it in extreme cause it's a done
deal..

Keith just bolted from the bar to the bathroom

We're not sure if he's throwing up or dominating.

...disappointed. He just had to pee. Very abrupt and off though.

Wow -Keith

Just kept up from the bar and ran into the bathroom-----

Jim and I have no idea what just happened..

Oh, it was just a piss

On the menu tonight...

We're making dick. Not just any dick, but Cajun, bacon dick. We may die.

Thorpe is talking about closing La Diable tonight and hitting first tracks tomorrow. A bold statement.

Dial up some apres Exteme

It's back, baby. Tom is in the room, but I think we are going to have to give out our first medal of the Tremblant Olympics.

Because Thorpe's soup

Is community property!

Jim

Hasn't touched hardware in years...

It's like he's married or something

A world without Extreme

Is a sad, sad place to live in. Yeah, we're drinking Blizzard right now, but it's just not the same. We are all inconsolable right now and contemplating suicide.

Pitcher #... You know what? It doesn't even matter anymore.

Metric Lunch #3

Jim and Tom just shared a moment. We have come to new revelations about the PQ Ski Team credo.

Also, we will be banning smoking on all PQ trips going forward.

Pooplets

Yes, you read that right.

Time to shame Tom....

Tom lacks discipline

It's a shame.

Pitcher #15

Apparently, they are out of Extreme but that's not stopping Pete even though he keeps ordering it anyway.

And yeah, there have been plenty of beers in the room.

Just so you know

Steel Panther rules this trip.

So...

I just asked Keith what his monthly payment is on his car. He then segued into "Asian Hooker!"

Catastrophe!

La Diable has run out of Extreme. This can't be happening.

Update

Thorpe just re-enacted the Mary Tyler Moore Show opening. Some random dude saw it and have him a high five. Someone let Thorpe out of his cage right now.

I'm having something stuffed with crawfish and I think we determined that Josie Maran is the hottest woman on this planet.

Pete just asked how good women curlers must be at waxing... Never mind.

Afternoon

We dominated the entire afternoon. Went to the casino. It was largely unnecessary. Back at the room drinking beers, eating English muffins, drinking bacon bourbon. I think we're going to have an awful lot of Dick tonight. ...the food, not what you're thinking.

Pitcher #11

Exteme number 8.

Tom's thoughts on this morning...

I was really hungover, but I drank some black coffee and some bourbon and now I'm fine.

Pitcher #10

7 of Extreme.

Metric Lunch number 2

Exteme pitcher number 6. Dominated the very crowded mountain. About six runs. Tom looks for, but can't find a helmet. Keith's girlfriend calls 12 times.

All Systems GO!

Lt Cmdr Baker status check:

We venture to the mountain today as a complete team. I passed out after drinking too much Extreme at 8pm last night, but woke up around midnight to Tom and Jim playing guitars, Pete "missing" as he went to the casino, and a Dorito strategically placed in my pants while asleep on the couch (photos to follow).

I promptly drank a bunch of water, ate the Dorito, and prepped for a good night sleep. A string of odd dreams and missed phone calls woke me in the middle of my slumber, but luckily I was able to get some decent rest over three different sleeping periods, have had coffee and an english muffin, and maybe even will have a beer to get this day off on the right foot.

The weather report: it's ~30 degrees and sunny as hell. The mountain is calling us. We might not make first tracks, but we'll be on the gondola by 9. Metric lunch by 11:30. And then this afternoon, EDGE EDGE EDGE EDGE EDGE will be once again by conquered by the PQFI.

Godspeed Gentlemen. Today is OUR day.

7 AM Start

English muffins have been thrown down. Keith and Tom are drinking right now.

Pete Thorpe

Rocked the casino tonight
Trip is paid for and now it is the mission of the team to keep him away from the tables.

Who loves cash money?

This guy that's who!!!

Tremblant - Day 1

Just paid tor the whole trip, plus pocket change thanks to the Cash-ino.

Heading to La Diable for a celebratory beer then to bed.

That's right, I just dominated the mountain and don't need to see the
casino for the rest of the trip!!!

Awesome.

Okay then..

Pete is up over 1,500 dollars and Keith just ate the ass Dorito.

I'm not even sure how I got those things into the same sentence.

Update...

Tom and I just recorded an awesome acoustic version of Van Halen's "Dreams" that we're going to have to put up here.

Thorpe went to the casino several hours ago and we haven't seen him.

And Keith just fell asleep with a guacamole Dorito up his ass.

...don't ask.

What you should not do on a gondola...

Keith and Jim sat way too close this morning on the gondola and met some Canadian men. The men asked if we had been here before and Jim replied, "yes, it's our tenth anniversary".

Jim then felt very uncomfortable and moved away from Keith.

The Conditions on Saturday

First tracks at 7:45 will include 21 degrees moving up to 39 during the day. Spring skiing! Dominate!

Early Morning Domination

Saturday 6:15 AM - Keith's Blackberry alarm goes off. Jim wanders out of his room to turn it off. He looks around and Keith is no where to be found.

6:33 AM - Keith wanders in holding his passport and a Diet Coke. Tells Jim that he was at the base of the mountain to watch them turn on the Gondola.

Someone needs to get off of India time.

What really transpired at the Circle K...

So right about now, you are wondering what is going on. I don't blame you. What has transpired here is really "Operation Tomfoolery". Lt. Comdr. Baker and myself have left a day early without telling Capt. Tom. We have enjoyed an extra day of mayhem and skiing in the greatest place in the world.

On Friday morning, we woke up early and made the Canadian border before noon. We kept in contact with Capt. Tom via e-mail and blog entries even though we weren't actually where we said we were. Everything you have read from Friday until this point is a lie.

While this has been killing Capt. Pete, this is a necessary evil and the Extreme Onction that we have consumed will only make him stronger. We applaud Capt. Tom for avoiding the greatest trap of all which would have been the dreaded rear admir... I mean... triple cross. We were actually planning on having him think that he was coming up early to prank us, but he could not leave a day early. Oh well...

In fact, Capt. Tom was text messaging me all night thinking that I was about to embark on this trip. Little does he know that I've already done what is necessary and will be taking on the mountain in the morning.

BAMM!!! Cradle rock style!!!

I'll see you later girly girl...

5th pitcher of Extreme

And assorted others. Get some.

Oh my God

Tom just told Keith to suck it up and Keith just sucked up a bunch of beer from the table and started choking on it. You can't even imagine what this looked like and what mother jokes ensued.

Wow

Q: what would you do to Lindsey Vonn?

A: I'd lose a ski pole basket in a very inappropriate way.

At Casey's...

Still no clue. Amazing.

Blame Canada!

Inside the belly of the beast.

Border Crossed

The final push is on...

126 miles to go..

Status Check

Lt Cmdr Baker

11:41
Jim: "Keith, you know what I could use right now?"

Keith: "What's that?"

Jim: "A beer."

Wow.

38 miles from the border, 75 miles from Montreal.

Contacts

Lt Cmdr Baker

11:19 Jim: "I'll shut up about my contact now" (4th mention) "you can blog that."

Blackjack!

Lt Cmdr Baker status check.

10:29 BlackJack: Exit 21 a success. And we're back on the road in 9 minutes.

Jim: "Wow, gas is actually pretty cheap."

Keith: while pumping gas into the 2010 Mercedez with Connecticut plates replies, "well since people make a lot less money up here, so they lower the gas prices"

Jim: noticing the person at the next pump as they get into their pickup truck turning their head, "um Keith, do you think you could have said that louder or perhaps snobbier?"

249 miles to go, 14:40 ETA on the nav...not accounting for a border stop of course.

When I'm going to do you...

Operation Legacy Begins...

Lt Cmdr Baker issuing the first official status report from Operation Legacy.

The first Mission (Operatative "captain tom") is going swimmingly. I am operating on 45 mins of sleep due to closing of a wild week in my life resolving nicely so I can focus on conquering the North with Captain Jim.

06:33 Captain Jim arrived at my house, I was packed and ready to roll. The Fine Captain was not 100% as his vision was compromised by a contact incident. Though we added 5 mins, we now are operating at full efficiency because our driver can see.

07:02 As official navigator, I elected our first stop to be Dunkin Donuts. We both ordered the waffle breakfast sandwich. The McGriddle is much better, I'll never be ordering it again as it was dry and almost tasted artificial.

08:42 Our first rest stop was at Malden, James domiated under hostile conditions but had 100% success. And resume.

08:56 Call to Captain Thorpe, not to torment but to console as he is saddened by his delayed arrival. Pete: we won't save a pitcher for you, but we will drink one for you in your absence.

09:08 Steel Panther begins our music selection. This was my first exposure to the album cataloging the exploits of Jim's mom. Well done both to the band and for the dedication Mrs. Valentino has shown through her years of "service".

09:48 Official soundtrack and blog now commence.

Look at what I found

Earliest Departure Ever

3:55 and I'm on the road.

You called down the thunder well now you've got it.

I see a US domestic beer and I kill the man drinking it.

You tell em I'm coming, and Toms coming with me, you hear, TOMS COMING
WITH ME!!!!