Mt. Hood Training Camp

It has been an awesome week of training at Mt. Hood. Feels great to be back on my snowboard. I’m making some adjustments to my equipment and loving it. The glacier is in great shape. We’ve had hard snow and sun almost every day. Yesterday was ugly though; it snowed on us during training. I’ve been staying busy cross-training, kiteboarding every afternoon near Hood River on the Columbia River. Kiteboarding is my favorite cross-training activity. Kiteboarding brings together skills from my favoite sports of snowboarding, surfing, skating, and wakeboarding and is an insane workout. Snowboarding in the morning and kiteboarding in the afternoon, it doesn’t get better than that. It has been a rough week at the office. Hard to beat summertime in Oregon. I kiteboarded so much the past week I got tendonitis in my forearm. I can barely type right now. Tomorrow’s my last day on-snow. I’m headed home to Aspen to give my arms a break. I’m traveling to Belgium this week for a conference on “Sport and Transplantation,” hosted by my friend Jacques Pirenne, the head of transplant surgery in Leuven, Belgium and an avid mountaineer who summitted Mt. Everest last year. We will be discussing the possibility of a transplant recipient climbing an eight thousand meter peak. I’ve never visited Belgium before and am looking forward to it. Gotta get up at Five a.m. tommorw, so I’m off to bed. Good night! Enjoy summer,

CK

Mt. Hood June 2007

Kiteboarding on the Columbia