Yearbook photo

I never did get a senior yearbook, even though I was on the yearbook staff ?

May 1980

All of a sudden there was a volcano in the backyard. This was nothing compared to what's about to happen to Mt. St. Helens on the following weekend, May 18th.....

Mt. Rainier

Hiking on the east side above Paradise Lodge.....

Shumway Aerospace ~ 1980

My model rocket getting ready to fly through the skies over Vancouver. This one was 6' long able to reach 1000' We were such rotten kids, usually taping the nose cone on rocket and/or launching them with extra booster engines so the rocket would go higher and drift in the wind up to a mile away, giving us an excuse to skip class and run throuth the streets of Vancouver, climb on random peoples roof tops et,. This launch landed on the Shumway school roof. The guy with the beard in the (desceased) instructor, Mr. Unterwagonner......

Pie with the Seascouts

Watch my sister as she gets covered.......

Sunriver, Montana

In big sky country with a remote control PT 109 boat I made in the car on the trip East. The first test was in an irrigation ditch that runs along the countryside. Jim Kincade a Montana rancher is at the controls......

Camping at Coyle ~ 1981

Near the shore of the Puget Sound, Coyle was a favorite place to go camping. Here sister Paige in the foreground and Jaime on the right......

Unicycle ~ 1982

Eventually I was able to ride around the neighborhood on this one wheeled thing......

Mt. Rainier ~ 1983

Hiking on Mt. Rainier was a favorite of mine, especially alone and unprepared. This time, dad dropped me off at the slope, I climbed up to camp Miur at 10,000' while dad sipped drinks at the bar in Paradise Lodge.......

Amtrak 1984

A train trip to the East coast in the summer of 1984......

The D.C. Mall

Tourist free......

Pizza

A favorite for the family because American fast food was just getting started and we needed to super size......

German Class ~ 1983

Train trip with dad ~ 1984

Who knows where we are on our train trip to the East coast ?

At the old Vancouver house in the shop ~ 1984

During the summer of 1984, I built this little wood boat which was never actually finished. The shop was located in the basement of one of Vancouver's original speak-easy's. Although there were some low ceilings, there were allot of interesting things built in this place, which at one time, during prohibition was used as a garage to hide cars from the street. The door in the background is 6 inches thick, something mom and I put together one weekend ......

Sister Paige's graduation ~ 1985

Pictured here with my cousin Larry Warner (left) classmate of my sister Paige. You can certainly see the differences between the Norwegian and Italian influence on my family......

Mom's new hottub ~ 1985

If it doesn't fit through any of the doors, knock out a wall......

Tom Handley ~ 1985

Out in the backyard with Tom Handley, we went to highschool together and spent lots of time screwing around in Vancouver........

Wandering around the Sierra Nevada ~ 1987

It sems like I did allot of wandering around in the middle of nowhere in the 1980's.......

At the bottom of the Grand Canyon, June 1987

Among one of the toughest days of my life. We began at the rim around 6:00am, a friend and I ran for 9 miles to the bottom. Along the way to the bottom we encountered huge puddles of mule piss. Sometimes these would come up with no warning. I recall thinking to myself, JUMP ! At the bottom, we walked 1.5 miles upstream. Along the way I sawthe phantom ranch, a bridge and made a phone call from the telephone booth at the bottom. Going back up was one of the most miserable hiking trips I've ever done. It was 110 degrees, the water inside my canteen was always colder than the water available along the way. I had to use a few hiking tricks, such as keeping my shirt wet at all times, In that hot weather it's tough ona guy like me.

At Hudson's Bay Highschool ~ 1983

Enjoying break time with gum hanging out of my mouth......

Goofing around at Hudson's Bay ~ 1984

This was during photography class

Halloween 1982

With Ramesh at his parents home in Vancouver.......

Highschool Tug-of-war ~ 1984

I've found myself right in the middle of a tug of war, this timetaking pictures on the far left dressed in my finest Hawaiian gear.......

Dad's girlfriend Sylvia ~ 1984

Doesn't it look like I'd rather be somewhere else.......

Party at the Rigdon Ranger District, Oakridge, Oregon ~ 1988

I worked for the Forest Service at this little place called Rigdon in the Oregon Cascades East of Eugene.......

Chop-o-rama ~ 1988

One way to have some fun, chopping cheap cars with axes and hammers, then taking the remains to the local scrap yard. This car was owned by Jaime Inglbretson and if I recall it smoked like a crop duster those couple of miles between our homes.......

Paul Hammond gets a pie in the face ~ 1989

A fundrasing stunt to do two things, .......

Willamette National Forest 1989

An insturment that measures the velocity of water from a bridge over the middle fork of the Willamette River.....