Extra Curricular Activities

Ski Mountaineering on Mt. Adams 2006



The importance of maintaining balance in medical school cannot be overemphasized.

These pictures are of a trip my husband and I took to Mt. Adams in South Washington during the spring of my MS-1 year. You can see other volcanos, such as Mt. Hood and Mt. Rainier, in the background of several pictures. You can distinguish the two, becuase Mt. Rainier has a braod, flat top, and Mt. Hood is much more conincal.





This camp is at 8,900 feet. We skinned up there and set up camp about 8:30pm the night before. Everything froze, so we were putting on crampons and planned on hiking to the summit and skiing down once some of the ice softened up.


The only thing I didn't like about this trip was that all of the ski gear was very heavy. For one overnight, we had about 65 pound packs. The summit pack wasn't bad, but we still had to ski down very difficult terrain and difficult snow conditions with a heavy pack. I had never done that before and I was challenged by it.


Also, there was a 3.5 mile hike each way to the beginning of the snow field. Man, that pack was more than half my body weight! UGH...









GREAT TRIP!!!