Its starting to come together.

Sumit has informed me that he will be flying into PDX on May 19th so that we can climb Mt Hood on the 20th or 21st depending on weather and conditions. He will be here through the 26th so we actually have a week long window to get this done if we need it. For those of you that are concerned this is the standard southern route in spring and not the northern route in winter that just claimed the lives of 3 fellow climbers. After Hood the plan is to scale Adams, South and Middle Sister (1 weekend) and Rainer later in the summer. There are 20 training weekends left until the climb. This weekend is my annual New Years day hike in the gorge. Wonder if it will be Wind, Snow or Rain this year?

Vast Plan

I will climb Mt Hood on Saturday May 19th, 2007. That gives me 25 weekends for training hikes (not to mention gym time until the Sun comes back after work.) Hopefully my friend Summit can fly out on join me and whomever else I can round up. This is all part of a vast plan to 1) Get in shape 2) Get Outside 3) Become a better role model for my children (you can always do better) 4) Get to Nepal or some other exotic adventure travel location in 2008. I will post pictures, training, route information and comments to this blog as I adventure from Today until my vast plan is realized.