In December 2014 I spent a night at the
Timberline Lodge in order to take the photo for page 142 of
The Billionth Monkey. The next day, as I had lunch in the Ram’s Head Bar before getting on the road, I noted the skiers and snowboarders returning from the slopes: What were they wearing? What were they doing? What were they talking about?
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The Ram's Head Bar on the second floor of the lodge offers stunning views of Mount Hood
(image from the Timberline Lodge website). |
One thing I noticed was a lot of generational slang. The other was a lot of skiing lingo, which was very helpful. All these details informed my writing of this scene.
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The view from my room at the Timberline Lodge. |
A “monkey trail” is snowboarder slang for a small trail—often through the woods—of the main trail. This term allowed me to slip in another #MonkeyReference. For more snowboarding terminology, see
http://www.abc-of-snowboarding.com/snowboarddictionary.asp.
I wandered around back looking for a Snow Cat, but didn't find one.
This was worrisome. What had Jack done with it?
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