Packing for Himalaya

 climbing

 shoes boots etc

 hats and gloves I should have counted them, only 8 pairs I think this time. 








climbing ice

 food ad coats

packs and 3 tents sleeping bags

Leaving for Nepal

 Doris Salcedo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago

Climbed Mt. Millicent yesterday...end of training

January 320 (average ) minutes per week
February 322 (average) minutes per week
March 341 (average) minutes per week
April 422 (average) minutes per week hiking up and down mountains. Camped out on Mt. Olympus, Broad's Fork, Grizzly Gulch, Butlers Fork

Traing in the Wasatch for the Himalaya

 Clayton Peak, above Brighton, and lemon cake (Martha Stewart!)








Easter Eggs the Graham way

 Camping above Solitude, so windy I had to tie the tent down this is before being apprehended by the ski patrol for being out of boundaries...I don't think they know who they are dealing with

 and climbing up to the Honeycomb peaks above Silver Fork

 Big training dinner at the Himalayan Kitchen in Salt Lake City, before a 9pm hike, and camping below Mt. Raymond in Butler Fork, Big Cottonwood Canyon.

 Then it finally snowed, April 15. Time to hike in the new snow under the fragrant Mountain Mahogany.

Training for the Mountain, Almond Cake, New Orleans

 brussell sprout leaves and blood orange almond flour cake

 hiking in Rock Canyon, hiking in the snow breaking out the mountaineering boots

 Little camp out at Lake Catherine, listening for the coyotes, broke out the snowshoes, hiked up Sunset peak, did not start an avalanche
 looking down on Mount Millicent

 the beet colored hard boiled eggs

              YMountain view of Utah Valley


The huge concrete Y

Atlanta Airport 6:00 am

 on the Mississippi at New Orleans

 Kevin Cole Exhibition in New Orleans

 New Orleans Airport

and climbing with crampons at Mule Hollow