Christmas 2006

Christmas 2006. We had cool stocking stuffers and then a fresh ham for dinner. Ron, Jami, Esther and Angel came over for dinner and ate all the food.

Xmas chicken

Training

I just started my training for spring's climbing season. I decided to stop running (a while ago) as it kills my heel and didn't help hiking anyway. So I've been doing stairs at my work with a pack full of kitty litter (40lbs) and rice (15lbs) and magazines (5ish). According to the scale at work it weighs in at 75lbs.

I was going up and down the stairs but switched to taking the elevator down from the 9th floor. I've been doing 60-70 flights and am aiming for 100 now that I'm using the elevator

Ski Bowl

Dan and I went up to Mt. Hood for our second ski of the season. Last weekend we went up with Ron, Esther and Keevin to Timberline. The weather wasn't so good last time, but today it was super nice out. We skinned up twice and then called it a day. Next time we'll get some lift tickets so we can get in a few more turns.

In case the picture of Dan crashing isn't large enough, here is a bigger version.

Dan and Hood