Well guys and gals life has thrown me my next thrill. I am in the process of training to climb Mt Hood. It is the tallest peak in Oregon at 11,250 ft USGS. It's in the plans for first week of May. I have climbed a large number of peaks up into the 19,000 ft range but the cool thing about Mt Hood is that after 6,000 ft it becomes all glacier, 12 glaciers total. So it'll be a full on alpine mountaineering climb with ice axes, crampons and lead climbs. Also the month of May is one of the most dangerous months to climb in the Cascades range due to the severe avalanche risk. I'm stoked about this climb because we will have a 5 man team and only a 7 hour window to summit using the south face glacier route. Only problem right now is finding my gear thats somewhere in China right now, on a ship that was supposed to be is the port of Houston in two weeks. Oh well just another reason to buy more gear.
Oh and here is a few pics from google.
Oh and here is a few pics from google.
Good luck with that, I'll settle for pictures.
Sounds like you are healing up nicely from your accident last year since you are taking on Mt Hood!!!! 
