Loco Gringos

I know that quite often the chileans must look over at me and wonder what the hell I am up to. Long hair, mustache, crazed look in my eyes and moving quickly uphill. but its reassuring to know that I am not the only loco gringo around; check out Rainer.

This dude has skied everyday for the last seven years, every day! Logging usually on average 30 grand a day, so he has skied 83.5 million feet in those seven years. I know I am being obsessed this year, but I still have made time for other things like family trips, beaches, mountain biking, golf.  I cannot imagine not taking a day off for seven years! Check out this article to read more about his mission. Impressive dedication.

I met him in the morning and we both went on our separate adventures, and then I met him again in the afternoon. You can see he is writing down his numbers.. Which were 30101 ft to my 10400ft.

Well 9 days of over 10g’s in a row. Getting further ahead…

Happily ahead of Par

What a feeling! I couldn’t keep the smile off my face today, I was so excited to be in fact at Par and now slightly ahead of it. Each creamy corn lap was fun, each summit exciting. Damn I cannot believe how long it took me to get back on PAR. June 1st I fell behind and now its Oct 10th, so many days spent playing catch up. The farthest behind was probable 75 000 feet, and then I would gain some, loose some.  And now finally on day 283 I am ahead of par. At an average of 5480 ft a day I should be at 1550840, and I am at 1553460 ft, exactly 2620 feet ahead. Yahhhhhh.

And when I hit par, on the summit of Volcan Viejo, I showed the mountains that hill is still kickin’

Pretty tough to time that one with my self-timer, but five tries later and I got it.  From there I rewarded myself with a nice dunk in the hotsprings.

This hotspring is kinda warm, not hot, but so refreshing on this warm spring day. Then a last tour up and home.  My seventh 10 thousand footer in a row..

And now I am celebrating,a steak on the barbecue, a bottle of Merlot and I am going to skype call anyone I know back home.

5 times 10 000 = good math

Well as I said its all athletics right now. You may have notice my skiometer jumping in 10 000 foot increments for the last 5 days. Pretty wicked, 52 040 ft in the last 5 days. Still not quite on par but pretty f-ing close. Not tomorrow unless I really kill it, which I won’t. So most likely I will hit par on October 10th.

Pretty simple existence right now, wake up, computer stuff, get out, run up and down and up and down, hit 10 grand, head home, relax for an hour, take the dogs for a 30 minute bike ride and eat, call home, feel homesick,edit a bit,go to sleep, repeat.