I am very grateful to have been hooked up by mother nature this December. Thank you for all the freshies and days like this with my girlfriend Nicole :) Cheers to 2014!
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The groomers were hard pack and off piste was rugged. I was determined to find some pow stashes. That determination lead me to this small little mountain oasis on Mt Bachelor last weekend.  Scott and Nicole on top of Camelback Mountain Thanksgiving was a very new experience for me this year. I got to experience some incredible adventures with my family in new places. I was blessed with an early departure from work at G5 on Wednesday, which created a time slot to run at Smith Rock en route to my parents new home in Hood River. Thursday, I awoke early to enjoy several hours of reading and website building. Happily I was able to complete my friend Kyle’s website for High Desert Home Theater. Well…. I finished the 98% that really matters. Thursday afternoon we drove to the Sherwood Forest trailhead for a hike up to Tamanawas Falls near Hood River. This is a short 4 mile out and back that should be hiked by everyone in Oregon. It is beautiful. Friday, I flew to Scottsdale, AZ to meet my girlfriend, her sister, mom and step dad. Great adventures lie ahead. Saturday Nicole work me up for a 4.5 mile run first thing. I hated getting up early that day, but it was well worth it. When we got back I cooked a five star breakfast of eggs, pancakes and fresh fruit. The pinnacle of breakfast? Me splashing Tabasco off my eggs in into my eyeball. This created a solid five minutes of excitement and pain i’d wish upon no one. There is a simple remedy for this mishap: flushing your eye under the sink and a dropping a few eye drops. Saturday afternoon would be even more exciting. We drove to Camelback Mountain on the outskirts of Phoenix where we would hike to nearly 3000 feet. I was appalled by not only the view, but the sheer number of people hiking up this mountain. There must have been a thousand or more. After hiking Camelback we headed to Tom’s Thumb, another uphill journey through a land filled with cactus, spiders and beautiful rocks. This adventure shed light to how small we really are and how powerful mother nature is. While the assent was not hard I believe that dehydration shed light on all of us and exhaustion was the result. During the descent of Tom’s Thumb Nicole and I spotted a Tarantula on the trail. I wanted to flick it off the trail to maybe save it’s life rather than just letting it be. I reached under a Cholla Cactus to grab stick and paid the ultimate price. A cholla jumped off the cactus and landed on my thumb. This is a horrible experience. The Cholla has barb like cactus spines that are not easily removed. I tried to flick the darn thing off and that only resulted in the cactus burying itself deeper into my thumb. A kind man walking down the trail stopped to say I have just the thing to help you. A comb. I had to brace my thumb on a large rock, slide the comb between my thumb and the cholla and rip my thumb off the cholla. Ouch! Not a fun experience to say the least. I managed to remove all but two of the thorns from my thumb. Nicole and I finished the hike down Tom’s Thumb into the AZ sunset. A beautiful way to finish an adventurous day. Summit as friends! Scott |
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