Ready For The Madness

The madness doesn't start here until tomorrow, so today it was all practices and press conferences for teams at the Spokane site of the NCAA Tournament. I shot this as I was walking out of the stadium after a long day.

What made it a long day wasn't all work related. The sports reporters and I made a little excursion across the border to Idaho to check out some of the scenic areas and take a ride on what is billed as "The World's Largest Gondola." I'm not really into landscape photography, but the 20 minute ride to the top of Silver Mountain was pretty cool.

Going up (with sports reporter Alex Abrams)

Hanging out at the top (with a pair or random snowboarders)

And on the way down (with sports reporter Grant Hall)
The ride was pretty steep at parts. The only really scary part happened while we were heading down. The ride suddenly stopped and we just hung there over the steep mountain side for about 5 minutes. We were debating if we could survive the jump down when the ride started back up again.

The real action starts here tomorrow, and I'm so ready for the games to begin. It will be interesting to see how this team plays. I was shocked all last week by their run of wins in the SEC Tournament. Hopefully they will keep it up this weekend.