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We had some culture up in the Skag tonight, thanks to @rat, @olyclimber, @bellows, @OlympicMtnBoy, @cfireand @manninjo !

Thanks @JasonG for hosting last night and for your single handed major funding effort! Thanks to @bellows for piloting the shaggin wagon. Great to meet @cfire and @manninjo + your friend! And always good to see @rat and @OlympicMtnBoy it was great to share the car ride. Nothing but love...whoever the dude flipping people off is, I'm pretty sure he was doing that for @lunger consumption only for not showing up like he has some important professor stuff to do or something! I learned a lot about the Oso slide, and probably over shared on my experience visiting that site.

Thanks for asking, I’m just really lucky with the breaks as they may be, hah. I had a neck collar for too many months and I was able to start some light PT at three. I was back doing easy too ropes in the gym and xc skiing in 6 months and am pretty much back where I was now. Any new lack of fitness and aches and pains I blame on becoming a dad. With a seven vertebrae fusion I surprisingly don’t notice much in limited mobility since the thoracic spine doesn’t move as much anyways. I can’t look behind me as far as I used to without turning my upper body but I only notice that when biking and checking on a rider right behind me. I was able to get back out in August of 2021 to try again and approached up Mt. Tom creek. Due to other party limitations, weather, and difficult terrain we ended up just cresting the ridge near Hoh Peak and then dropping down to Dragon Lake. Dragon Lake had been on my list forever so that was super cool but I still need to get up that ridge on Mt. Tom. Thinking about trying again this summer up the S. Fork of the Hoh to Hoh Peak and then up the ridge to Tom and maybe Lake of the Gods and out Falls Creek. We’ll see!