Tomorrow morning I’m heading off in the Jeep to Lake Tahoe, from where my old college roomate, Amy and I will be heading to Utah for Straightline Ski Camp at Alta and Snowbird.  We’re bookending the camp with a few days skiing on each side, so I’ll be gone a week.

The schedule for camp is pretty grueling, but it is a blast.  The last time I attended, I went all prepared to party, but it turned out most days we were so exhausted afterwards we would have 1 beer and pass out!  The schedule looks like this:

8:30-4:00 ski
4:00-6:30 avalanche/beacon training
7:00-9:00 video analysis with coaches of skiing

Psyched for camp although I have to admit a little sad to be leaving Earl and Linus for a whole week!  I wonder if they will both survive?!?  Earl told how when he and Linus are sad and missing me they will get some of my shirts out of the closet and cuddle with them to remember my smell.  Aww.

I hired our hippy dogwalker who will be coming every day to mid-day walk the pooch.  She came over to get the keys this afternoon and Linus was really excited to see her.  Must have been all the bong hits she gave him last time :P   She will be taking him for a two-hour walk every afternoon (holy cow).

Camp should be a great time.  A few other of my friends are attending, such as Nick, who I met at camp two years ago, and who has since cheered me on at the Ironman in Louisville and to came meet us down in New Orleans during our roadtrip trip this fall.

Here’s a photo from Straightline camp two years ago.  We’re hiking to Baldy from the top of Snowbird.  I’m in the green:

hike to baldy from snowbird

hike to baldy from snowbird

See you next Thursday! :)