ill be a cartoon by the time i leave

 installing the lights

 a beatuiful morning at the base area

 the russian way of transportation

 a portion of the build

 the road to crazy khutor

 looking at the black sea

 the bus ride to work

 the dirt from the tracks of one side of this cat

 the pipe again from the bottom

 more dirty tracks

 from the top

 from the bottom

 from the top

 a beast

 an everest

 the left deck

 from the inside looking out

 the pipe

todd fixing number 8


After putting in 450 cat hours into this pipe build, going through many cats a few snow blowers, washing cats with fire hose, running a a chain saw in the rain,  5 meetings, building a digger massage in the rain,  working the longest week of my life 118.5 hrs in a week, canceling the competition 2 days before im done building it, being told im just somebody's bitch and not in charge, told they arent going to help me get a paper to use a car to go to the market, running out of food, getting a washing machine that doesnt have any water connections in the wall that work, being basiaclly striped searched to go to work, eating buck wheat for lunch,  buying food from a ghetto, living off red bull and instant mash potatoes, having no information on my mail,  talking to a girl to find out she has a man, letting someone use my cat to have them rip off both fenders, asking the mechanics to check out the winch pressure  and having them screw up the winch and take the cutter off and the told to put it back on then leave for the day, and now find out this week will be even longer then the last one the competition is cancelled and my clothes are locked in the washing machine it wont unlock...

i will have so much character by the time i leave russia i will be a cartoon... 
WELL BACK TO WORK...

DO YOU WORK FOR GREEN PEACE?

 a look at the top of the left wall of the pipe they have done alot of work and still more to go, with 19 days left to open the pipe  when it took this picture i think they should start making snow

 and when i say work left to do the most obvious is maybe put some bolts in the light towers it seams maybe the missed a step

 like this guys who is snugging the lock bolts down with a 10" wrench and a sledge these bolts are as big as my arm i believe to do it the right way a ten foot bar attached to this would maybe get close.  if you look close there are two guys on the lift tower above him doing work... i would of thought they would of tightened the bolts first, not in russia

 so much work to do it is hard to tell what they are doing maybe fixing the broken snowmaking lines.  16 of them so far in this area which is why there is no snow yet

 do you work for green peace?  i was asked that 2xs in one day, i guess i am more of a hippie then i thought.  as i found an over whelming amount of trash  in this one area it makes me a little sad to be apart of this but its not my place its not my country they do as they do here

 im glad to know its not in my back yard as they say

 is it better to burn it so the workers can stay warm or just leave it under the snow?

i am at least keeping busy. a picture from inside the cat. bison x #17