For New Years we went down to Bend to ski on Mt. Bachelor and drink beer. Everyone had a great time, the weather was excellent and the snow was pretty comfortable to fall on. On New Years Eve we hung out at my house and had a fire, sparklers and a hot tub. And beer.

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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.

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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

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.

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This Saturday was Simone's Christening.

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For Thanksgiving we (Mom, Dad, Ron, Esther, Ingrid and me) went down to the beach to eat the turkey. My mom beat us all in Mexican Train, like usual.

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I switched jobs last week to Oracle. The office is back downtown in the Pac West building. Besides being a nice switch in work, there are showers, a bike room, free parking and free Mountain Dew.

An Saturday Ron, Dan and I went up Angel's Rest as a small training hike. It was sunny out until we got to the hike and then it started raining and hailing. After the hail it was awesome out and we had rainbows and fog.

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For Keevin's 26th birthday we all went over to his house to pre-funk it and then over to Montage for some grub. Afterwords we swung by Voodoo Donuts. Keevin had a good time running around as The Dude in the Big Lebowski.

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