• Three sawhorses
• Portable vice
• Plywood
• Pegboard
• Pegs for pegboard
• Wood glue
• Eyeglasses
• Facemask
• Masking tape
• 220 grit sandpaper
• Portable light
• 25amp 20′ extension cord
• Square

I bought a new camera, the GoPro Hero, for biking and climbing. It looks like a toy but takes pretty good pictures and video.
It does video, which I took on the way down Mt. Tabor

Rain clouds east of Mt. Tabor

When I met with the neurosurgeon we decided to go ahead with the back surgery. He said the MRI was a textbook picture of a disc bulge, so that’s good I think. The surgery took 90 minutes and he ended up leaving the disc alone as it was ok and just removed debris and scar tissue. When I woke up the pain in my leg and back was gone and I was able to walk immediately.

I have some numbness in my toes and calf but they said this is normal as they moved the nerve around. Hopefully it’ll go away in a week or so. I have gone for short walks down the block and back and they’re pretty tiring. It’ll be interesting to see if we can make it up any mountains this year in the spring.

Sara’s Birthday was this weekend and I went out to Hood River to celebrate it with her and her sister MaryAnn. On Saturday we ate Cheezits and went cross country skiing at TeacCup Lake. We got lapped two times by one gal. But we had hot cocoa and sandwiches and she didn’t. On Sunday we went up North towards Mt. Adams and skiied in the sun up to some ice caves. It was very cool and it’d be nice to go back there with some crampons and a helmet. It was a cool weekend hanging out and learning which muscles you normally don’t use while skiing.

Ingrid and I went up to do Devil’s Rest on Saturday. There was a lot of snow on the path which slowed us down a bit.There were lots of nice views of the Gorge as we hoofed it up to the top. Up top it was pretty cold but the cocoa worked its magic again.

On Thursday night I wanted to hike Angels Rest in the gorge and went up with Karen and Matt. It was uber windy and once we got to the top we had to walk on fours and crawl from rock to rock. We figured the gusts were near 45mph (with nothing to guide us besides being pushed over.) After some Cheezits and hot cocoa we headed back down.