Nice to get back to flying

It's been a couple of years of no flying and it's been great to find out that flying is like riding a bike. Good to fly a few new sites too. Now it's time to get back to Idaho Peak, my favorite site in the world.

Post Hip Surgery

I had a great winter. After three winters of no skiing due to a broken leg and subsequent hip replacement it was great to be back ski touring and skiing. My limited preseason training was some mountain biking with the goal of riding up our local mountain Idaho Peak - 6,000 ft of vertical and that felt great. I did my first tentative turns on our local t-bar ski hill - Summit Lake and did some skiing with my boy Ethan who is loving skiing. The winter progressed with a few short ski tours which I was happy with but had a few limping days after and wasn't sure what all that meant. The season amped up with some heli skiing in some awesome weather windows when we nailed some perfect skiing and the leg felt better and better. By the end of the winter and into the spring my fitness was better, fine muscle control, balance and muscle twitch speed was back on track and feeling 90%. Yahoo, what a winter.

Christmas 2012

Twins? Ethan at 6 months, Jonah at 6 months.

A swim across the lake

 A broken leg in the Fall and a new baby in the Spring. A 2 year old as well and there is not much time for exercise. Last year Tom Perry made his inagural swim across the Slocan Lake ( about 2 km ) and I joined him this year. Good exercise and just about anybody that can float can do it. We swam a leisurely 1 hr 18 min and vowed to do it again next year and get it under an hour. Doug from Bosun's Ranch provided motorboat support and return transport and we swam from his place to the old wrecked barge on the Valhalla Park side.

Busy changing diapers

 

 

France in the Fall

We were supposed to be in France in early October to shoot a friend's wedding however someone had to break their leg. KLM airlines generously gave us a year to use the tickets but since we are expecting a new baby in the spring it seemed like November was the right time. It was pretty much wandering around the old towns taking photos of Ethan.

I broke my leg

I had a tree land on my back and break my leg this Fall. A little unfortunate but fortunately it's all getting better and it was not worse. I was laid up for about a month and then moving around on crutches. It's all healing well. No pictures.