Snoqualmie Pass Summit

์• ๋“ค ํ•™๊ต๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฒˆ์ฃผ๋Š” ๋ฐฉํ•™์ด๋ผ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ ํœด๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ์™”๋‹ค.

์ด์ œ๋Š” ์Šคํ‚คํƒ€๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์‹ค๋ ฅ์ด ๋Š˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ํƒˆ์ค„ ์•„๋Š” ๋งŒํผ ์ฆ๊ธฐ์ž ์ฃผ์˜๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๊ฑด๋งŒ ์•  ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋ธ”๋ž™์—์„œ ๋‚‘๋‚‘๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํƒ”๋Š”๋ฐ ์‘๋‹ฌ์ด ๋งŽ๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ์‹ฌํ•ด์„œ ๋น™ํŒ ๋ถ€๋ถ„์ด ๋งŽ์•˜๋˜ ํŒŒ๋ผ์Šก ๋ธ”๋ž™์ฝ”์Šค์—์„œ (+๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์‚ฐ ์ค‘๊ณ  ์Šคํ‚ค; ๋‚  ํŠœ๋‹ ํ•จํ–ˆ์–ด์•ผ ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ์˜ฌํ•ด๋Š” ์‚ด์‚ดํƒ€์ง€๋ญ๋ž€ ๋‚˜์˜ ๋งŒํ–‰ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ & ์•„์ง๋„ ๊ธด์Šคํ‚ค ํƒ€๋Š”๊ฒŒ 100% ์ต์ˆ™ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์Œ..ใ…Žใ…Ž) ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๋‚ด๋ ค๊ฐ€์ž๊ณ  ์š•์‹ฌ์„ ๋‚ด ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ํ„ด ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋‚ด๋ ค์˜ค๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋น™ํŒ์—์„œ ski๊ฐ€ ๊ผฌ์ด๋ฉฐ ๊ฑฐ์˜ slope์˜ 1/3์€ ๊ตด๋Ÿฌ์„œ ๋ฌด์Šจ ๋ฃจ์ง€ ํƒ€๋“ฏ์ด ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์˜จ๋ชธ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด๋ ค์™”๋”๋‹ˆ ์˜จ ๋ชธํ†ต์ด ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์ €๊ธฐ ํ†ต์ฆ…ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž ์ฝ”๋ฏธ๋””๊ฐ€ ๋”ฐ๋กœ ์—†์—ˆ๋‹ค. ํด๋Œ€ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์Šคํ‚ค ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋‚ ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์„œ ํ•œ 1๋ถ„์ •๋„๋Š” ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋ชธ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด๋ ค์˜จ๋“ฏ…๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋’ค์— ์˜ค๋˜ skier๊ฐ€ ์ง‘์–ด์ฃผ์‹  ๋•๋ถ„์— ๊ฒจ์šฐ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ •์‹ ์ฐจ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋‚ด๋ ค์™”๋‹ค.

์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์Œ“์ธ ๋ˆˆ์ด ์žˆ์–ด ์ตœ์•…์˜ ์„ค์งˆ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ์˜€์ง€๋งŒ ๋ช‡์ฃผ ๋”ฐ๋œปํ•˜๋‹ค ์ด๋ฒˆ์ฃผ์— ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋ˆˆ์˜ค๋ฉด์„œ ์จํ•˜๊ณ  ์ถ”์œ„์ง„์ง€๋ผ ์‘๋‹ฌ์ฃผ์œ„์— ๋ˆˆ์ด ์กฐ๊ธˆ๋งŒ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€๋ฉด ๋น™ํŒ์ด์—ˆ๋Š”๋“ฏ… ์Šคํ‚คํƒ€๋‹ค ๋„˜์–ด์ ธ๋„ ์•ˆ์•„ํ”ˆ๊ฑด ํ™•์‹คํžˆ 20-30๋Œ€ ๋•Œ์ธ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‹ถ๋‹ค.. ๐Ÿ™‚

์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์˜ค์ž๊ณ  ๋ช‡์ฃผ๋ฅผ ์กฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด์„œ ์˜ค๋Š˜ ๊ฐ•ํ›ˆ์„ ์‹œํ‚จ ์ž‘์€๋„˜๋‹˜๊ป˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค… “๋‹ค๋ฅธ๊ฑด ์•ˆ๋ฐ”๋ž€๋‹ค… ๋‚˜์ค‘์— ์–ด๋ฅธ๋˜์—ˆ์„ ๋•Œ ์•„๋น ๊ฐ€ ํ”ผ๊ณคํ•œ๋ฐ๋„ ํœด๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์™”๋‹ค๋Š”์ ๋งŒ ์žŠ์ง€ ๋ง์•„์ฃผ๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž˜..” ๋‚ด ๊ผฐ๋ ฅ์ด ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ๋‹ค…ใ…Žใ…Ž

As kids had a winter break this week and my #2 had insisted to come here for long period, I had a day off from work and had a fun ski day. Fun ski day exploded with record knock out at Parachute slope which I slid down 1/3 of slope with my body in head-first posture. (and I am paying the price with pains in various body parts – left hip, chest, right neck etc – maybe the time when one doesn’t feel pain after a knock out in Ski slope is when one is in 20s or 30s ๐Ÿ™‚ )

All I asked to my son was “One day when you grow up, please remember your father who worked crazy hours carved out one full day to throw his body to fulfill your ask and fun :)”

2022.2

Music Day at Yakima

๊ผฌ๋งน์ด๊ตฐ์ด ์•„์นจ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ €๋…๊นŒ์ง€ ์ข…์ผ ์Œ์•…์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋นด๋˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ..

์•„์นจ์— SunDome์—์„œ Rehersalํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ค‘๊ฐ„์— ์˜ท๊ฐˆ์•„์ž…๊ณ  Convention Center์—๊ฐ€์„œ ํ•™๊ต Orchestra ๊ณต์—ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋Œ์•„์™€ All State ๊ณต์—ฐ์„ ๋๋ƒˆ๋‹ค.. ์กธ์ง€์— ์—ฐ๊ณ ๋„ ์—†๋Š” ์‹œ๊ณจ๋งˆ์„์—์„œ ์šฐ๋ฒ„๋†€์ด ๋งค๋‹ˆ์ € ๋†€์ดํ–ˆ๋‹ค.. ๋ญ ์ „๋‚  ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” Mexican์Œ์‹ ๋จน์€๊ฑธ๋กœ ๋งŒ์กฑ…

Was a busy day with full of music & driving/assisting for me..

2022.2

Vasquez Rocks

Santa Clarita๋ฅผ ๋– ๋‚˜ ๋ถ์ง„์„ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ „ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ์Šคํƒ€ํŠธ๋ž™์˜ ์ดฌ์˜์ง€๋ผํ•˜๋Š” ์ง€๊ตฌ๊ณผํ•™์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๋ฐฐ์šด๋“ฏํ•œ ๋‹จ์ธต๋Œ ๊ตฌ๊ฒฝ์„ ๊ฐ”๋‹ค.

Earth Science lessons taken at Agua Dulce near Santa Clarita – simply off from CA 14 Freeway.

2021.12

Six Flags Magic Mountain

Six Flags Magic Mountain at Santa Clarita/LA also has been on my wishlist for decades since my highschool/college years but now I am realizing I got old enough to say I had enough of these rides ๐Ÿ™‚ Fortunately or unfortunately, after the partial experience (because of winter season) and getting wet (with rains in last few hours), I rather loved the seafood noodle at Hong Kong Banjum at nearby after the visit ๐Ÿ™‚

์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋„ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์—ฌํ–‰์˜ checklist – ๋ฌผ๋ก  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์ง‘ ๋„˜๋‹˜๋“ค์˜ ์š”๊ตฌ์‚ฌํ•ญ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค… ๋‹จ ์•„์‰ฌ์šด๊ฑด ๊ฒจ์šธ์ด๋ผ ๋ชจ๋“  ride๋ฅผ openํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์ … ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ 1-2์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ •๋„๋Š” ๋น„๋งž์œผ๋ฉฐ ํƒ”๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ..ใ…Žใ…Ž

๋ญ ๋‚˜๋„ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™๊ต๋•Œ๋‚˜ ๋Œ€ํ•™๋•Œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๊ฐ”๋‹ค์˜จ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์ด ์ด๊ฑฐ ์ฃฝ์ธ๋‹ค ์–ด์ฉ๋‹ค ํ•ด์„œ ๊ฐ€๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ๊ธดํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ…. ์ƒˆ์‚ผ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋А๋‚€๊ฑด ์ด์   ๋”์ด์ƒ ๋†€์ด๊ธฐ๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ์Šฌ์Šฌ ๋ฌด์„œ์›Œ์ง„๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ด๋‹ค.. (ํŠนํžˆ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์ขŒ์šฐ๋กœ ํ”๋“œ๋Š”๊ฑด ์ด์ œ ๋‘ํ†ต๋งŒ ๋‚˜๊ณ  ๋งค์‹๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด ์งˆ์ƒ‰..-๋จธ๋ฆฌ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๋Œ€์žˆ๋Š” ๋ผ์ด๋“œ ๊ทนํ˜ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌ…)

์—ฌ๋ฆ„์— ๋‹ค์‹œ ์˜ค์ž๋Š” ๊ธฐ์•ฝ์—†๋Š” ์•ฝ์†์„ ๋„˜๋“ค๋‹˜๊ป˜ ๋‚จ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ํ•ด์งˆ ์กฐ์ง์ด ๋ณด์ด์ž ๋ฐ”๋กœ ํ™์ฝฉ๋ฐ˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ–ฅํ•ด ์งฌ๋ฝ• ๋“œ๋งํ‚น…. (๋ฏธ๊ตญ์— ์ ํฌ ์—ด์–ด์ฃผ์‹  ๋ฐฑ์ข…์› ๋Œ€ํ‘œ๋‹˜ Santa Clarita ์ ์ฃผ๋‹˜ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค..์‹œ์• ํ‹€์—๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์—ด์–ด์ฃผ์‹ฌ ์ •๋ง ์ข‹๊ฒ ๋Š”๋ฐ์š”.. ๐Ÿ™‚ )

2021.12

Death Valley National Park: Dante’s View

์ด ๋‚˜๋ผ๋Š” ํ™•์‹คํžˆ ์ข€๋งŒ ๊ดด์ƒํ•˜๋ฉด – ํ˜น ํ•œ๊ตญ์—์„  ๋„๊นจ๋น„๋กœ ์นญํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด – ์ฃผ๋กœ Devil/์•…๋งˆ๋‚˜ ์ƒ๋ช…์ด๋‚˜ ์‹ ๊ณ„์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋กœ ์นญํ•œ๋‹ค..ใ…Žใ…Ž (์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ƒ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ”์ง€๋งŒ Devil’s Golfcourse๋„ ์žˆ์Œ..) ํ•œ๊ตญ์—” ๋งˆ๊ณ„์ธ์ฒœ ์ •๋„์˜ ์• ๊ต ์™ธ์—” ‘๋งˆ’๋ฅผ ์นญํ•˜๋Š”๊ฑด ๋ณธ์ ์ด ์—†๋Š”๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™์€๋ฐ…^^

Death Valley์˜ Badwater Basin์ด ์ œ์ผ ์ž˜ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๊ผญ๋Œ€๊ธฐ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‚˜ ๋‹ค๋ฅผ๊นŒ..Dante’s View๋ž€๋‹ค..ใ…Žใ…Ž

Dante’s View – amazing! wondered for few min because of longer drive up from main roads but definitely worth-while

2021.12

Death Valley National Park: Artist’s Drive

์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ •๋ง ์™€๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋˜ ๊ณณ์ด์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋ชป๋ณด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์™€์„œ ์•„์‰ฝ๋‹ค….๋‹ค์Œ์— ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ธฐํšŒ์žˆ์„๋•Œ ๊ผญ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฑธ๋กœ…

Unfortunately, had to drive out quick – so keeping this place as a next visit

2021.12

Death Valley National Park: Badwater Basin

๋ง๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์†Œ๊ธˆ๋ฐญ… ์—„์ฒญ ์งœ๋‹ค…ใ…‹ใ…‹ ํ•œํŽธ ์šฐ์œ ๋‹ˆ ์‚ฌ๋ง‰๊ฐ™์ด reflection์ด ์‹ฌํ•œ ํ‰ํ‰ํ•œ ๊ณณ์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ณ ..ใ…Žใ…Ž ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ƒ ์šธํ‰๋ถˆํ‰ํ•œ ์†Œ๊ธˆ๋ฐญ์„ ๊ด€๊ด‘๊ฐ๋“ค์ด ๋ฐŸ์•„์„œ ํ‰ํ‰ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ ๊ฒŒ ์•„๋‹Œ๊ฐ€ ์‹ถ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•จ…ใ…Žใ…Ž (๊ณ ๋กœ ํ›„์— ์™€๋ณด๋ฉด ํ•˜์–€ ์†Œ๊ธˆํ‰์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋” ๋„“์–ด์ ธ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ? ใ…Žใ…Ž)

Salty & White place at the bottom of valley; -282 feet or -86 meter ๐Ÿ™‚

2021.12

Death Valley National Park: Furnace Creek & Panamint Valley

์ด์ œ ์ง„์งœ ํ•ด๋ฐœ (-)๊ตฌ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ๊ธธ์ด ์ง„์ž……. ํ•œ์ฐธ์„ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋ฉด ์˜ค์•„์‹œ์Šค ๊ฐ™์€ ๋™๋„ค๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์˜จ๋‹ค..์—ญ์„ค์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋™๋„ค ์ด๋ฆ„์ด Furnace Creek.. (๊ฐ„๋‹จํžˆ ์ ์‹ฌ ๋–ผ์šฐ๊ณ  ์ฐจ๋„ ๋ฐฐ๊ณ ํ”ˆ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ ์‚ด์ง ์ฑ„์›Œ์ฃผ๊ณ … (๊ธฐ๋ฆ„๊ฐ’์ด ๋ฌด๋ ค $6.60/Gallon ์ •๋„ ํ•œ๋“ฏ… ํ—ˆ๋‚˜ Las Vegas์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฑ„์›Œ์˜จ ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌด์‚ฌํžˆ ๋น ์ ธ๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ ค๋ฉด ์–ด๋А ์ •๋„ ๋ˆˆ๋ฌผ์„ ๋จธ๊ธˆ๊ณ  ์ฑ„์›Œ์ค˜์•ผํ•œ๋‹ค..)

Now the road goes down further to below sea levels at the bottom of valley

2021.12

Death Valley National Park: Ubehebe Crater & Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes

์ •๋ง ์™€๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋˜ ๊ณณ ๋“œ๋””์–ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธ… ์ด์ œ ๋ถ๋ฏธ์—์„œ ๊ผญ ๊ฐ€๋ณด์‹ถ๋˜ ๊ณณ์ค‘ ์•ˆ๊ฐ€๋ณธ๋ฐ ๋ช‡ ๊ตฐ๋ฐ ์•ˆ๋‚จ์•˜๋‹ค…

๋‚ด๋ฅ™์˜ ๋ฐ”๋‹ค์˜€๋˜ ๊ณณ์ด ๊ฑด์กฐํ•œ ๋‚˜๋จธ์ง€ ๋ง๋ผ๋ฒ„๋ฆฐ ๊ณ„๊ณก, ๋ฐ”๋‹ฅ์€ ํ•ด๋ฐœ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‚ฎ์€ ์ง€์—ญ์ด๋ฉด์„œ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์—๋Š” ํ™”์”จ 150๋„ ์ •๋„๋กœ ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€์„œ ์ˆจ์‰ฌ๊ธฐ๋„ ์–ด๋ ต๊ณ , ์Šคํƒ€์›Œ์ฆˆ์˜ ์ดฌ์˜๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์œผ๋กœ ์“ฐ์˜€๋‹ค๋Š” ์ •๋ณด๋“ค์— ํ•ญ์ƒ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋™๋„ค๋‹ค. ๋น„๋ก ๊ฒจ์šธ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ  ๋ฐฉ๋ฌธํ•œ ์ฃผ์— ๋น„๋„ ์™”๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์˜จ ํ”ผ๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์ฉ์ฉ ๋ง๋ผ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋А๋‚Œ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค..ใ…Žใ…Ž

Ubehebe Creator๋Š” ๋งˆ๊ทธ๋งˆ๊ฐ€ ์‚ฐ์ด ์•„๋‹Œ ํ‰ํ‰ํ•œ ๋™๋„ค์— ๋Œ์ถœํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ƒ๊ธด ๋ถ„ํ™”๊ตฌ์ด๊ณ  Mesquite Sand Dunes๋Š” ๋ชจ๋ž˜์‚ฌ๋ง‰์ด๋ผ ๊ฐˆ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฐ ํฌ์ธํŠธ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ธธ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๊ณ ์œ ํ•œ ํ’๊ฒฝ๊ณผ experience๊ฐ€ ์ฐธ ์‹ ์„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ข‹์•˜๋‹ค..

Finally DVNP!! ๐Ÿ™‚ One of my long wish-list is finally cleared. DVNP has always been in the toplist with lots of interesting points – crazy summer weather/temperature, name of “Death” :), scene of Star Wars, etc…

First two spots (after the National Park sign :)) – Ubehebe Crater & Mesquite Sand Dune

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