South Lake Tahoe resident Andrew Niziol waved excitedly at his future girlfriend as snow billowed outside a craggy cave at Kirkwood Mountain Resort.
Happiness was deep snow and soaring peaks for couple Patty Bolan, 29, and Niziol, 28 — and, it was the untamed outdoors that ultimately kindled their newfound relationship. The romance began as a solid friendship built in part through hitting bars and 2 a.m. splitboarding adventures.
“They just were such a good match,” said Mac Robertson, who struck up her friendship with Bolan as a fellow graduate student in UC Davis’ physics department. Bolan had attained her doctoral degree while studying the most distant galaxies in the early universe and was preparing for a June hooding ceremony.
South Lake Tahoe resident Andrew Niziol waved excitedly at his future girlfriend as snow billowed outside a craggy cave at Kirkwood Mountain Resort.
Happiness was deep snow and soaring peaks for couple Patty Bolan, 29, and Niziol, 28 — and, it was the untamed outdoors that ultimately kindled their newfound relationship. The romance began as a solid friendship built in part through hitting bars and 2 a.m. splitboarding adventures.
“They just were such a good match,” said Mac Robertson, who struck up her friendship with Bolan as a fellow graduate student in UC Davis’ physics department. Bolan had attained her doctoral degree while studying the most distant galaxies in the early universe and was preparing for a June hooding ceremony.
