Miserably Happy

This adventure, most like all other adventures, begins with a simple phone call. It came very "spur of the moment," as it should. I am currently on 3 hours of sleep due to this particular spur of the moment phone call. It came from a good friend of mine Andy Earl. Now Andy and I have had quite a few adventures together, and this would be no different. The phone call went something like this;
Andy: "Hey man, whats up?"
Me: "Nothing, just getting off work"
Andy: "Do you have skis or a snowboard or something?"
Me: "Yes"
Andy: "Do you want to hike up pfiefferhorn and snowboard down?"
Me: "Yes"
and that is how it all started. I then went to his place of work and we talked about what we were to do for our adventure. We spoke of the weather conditions (terrible), and what we needed to bring (anything that we didn't care getting wet, and whatever would make this a miserable night). We had both talked of how this adventure will suck, but would be a good tale to tell, so i tell it now. I am saddened to report, that out comrade and faithful friend Brett Olsen was unable to accompany us on this adventure.
So we started off as soon as possible, which was late, like usual. We readied our gear that weighed close to 70 lbs. each due to snowboards, boots, tents and other essentials.

















And we prepared to head off in the rain, mud and possible snow. Mind you this is at about 12:00 a.m.We begin the hike thinking that we would reach the way point, Red Pines Lake, in a short period of time. This proved to be a more daunting task than expected.
So in the rain and snow we hiked for a good 2 hours, and then found ourselves on a snowy hillside just looking for a place to camp and rest our tired legs. we found a spot and laid pine branches down to add as a buffer between us and the snow because we had no pads (this adds to the adventure).
So we made some tea, and settled into bed, at 3 am. That whole night, and into the morning we were met with some rather friendly rain storms, who insist on getting everything wet. So i awoke quite early due to drinking too much water and tea the night before, and came out and surveyed the area, and needless to say, the conditions weren't what we had anticipated. We then went ahead and looked around, and strapped on our snowboards and played around a bit.
As we tired out we decided to head back down the mountain. This was accompanied by some more rain and mud and wet clothing. We were not able to summit on this trip, but we did get some rather good pictures from it, and some great adventure tale of the time we almost conquered the rainy pfiefferhorn.