After SF Ingrid had a softball game over in Westmoreland. It was uber hot and all the spectators were sticking to the shade like cockroaches. They won 11-10.

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We went down to Gearhart for the 4th again. The rest of the family was there and Trey made some carmel corn with peanut butter. A sure sign the diet was on hold. The parade wasn't as exciting as last year, but that's because we didn't get any candy. The F-15 flyover was cool though, it was about 150' above us as it did a few banked turns. So maybe the parade was more exciting than last year.

We went down to the ocean to look at the fireworks and the fires. We decided to leave when one group fired their fireworks into the grasses near the beach. Next time I'll have to bring the tripod down so shots aren't so hazy looking.

I got a tattoo.

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Matt, JT and Ingrid raced in the Short Track Series at PIR> It was a pretty cool track and looked like a lot of fun.

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Mom came over and helped me turn the ground over, kill some weeds and get the backyard ready to fend off the birds from the blueberry bushes. We replanted some strawberries, but they are dead now. As dead as the damned scale now that the Fit/Fatbowl is over.

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Ingrid and I went up to Mt. Hood in the van's first trip. We went first to some crappy state campground, but it was uber iffy looking, so we continued up to Sherwood Campground a little further south. It was a really nice campground and we hung out there two days. We went biking on Saturday along the East fork of the Hood river. The ride was easy and pretty short as the upper part was washed out.

The van worked out really well for camping. It was nice to just pull over, pop the top and go to sleep. We even rigged up a shower curtain so we could use the solar shower after biking.

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Trey had told me about a race a few years ago from Government Camp to Timberline Lodge. The fastest time was 25 minutes, which is impressive given it's around 2,000' gain over 6 miles. I was aiming for 45-60 minutes. I ended up getting 39 minutes which I thought was pretty good. I found out later that I didn't do the same route as them, so I'll be redoing this soon. The monitor showed me as having over 180bpm on the way down, but that was just a misread.

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Over the weekend Ingrid and I went over to Central Oregon to check out the John Day area. We were going to take the new van, but it's still in repair. But we got to use the new tent and it's really easy to set up and roomy.

Central Oregon

Ingrid and I went out towards John Day to check out the area and do some biking on the forest roads.

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Painted Hills

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Yashica camera

We took the medium format Yashica over to Central Oregon and here are some of our shots.

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We went down to the beach for the weekend to get away from the heat in Portland. On Saturday we hung out and those with bikes did some time trials down to the end of Cottage Street and back. On Sunday, we went down to Hug Point to check out the tide pools.

Beach

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Ingrid's softball season just started down in Oregon City.

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