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Its out there! My 2009 Northwest Weather Calendar is flying off the shelves at

Pro Photo Supply where I have two more calendar signings scheduled:

Saturday November 22 Noon-2pm
Saturday December 20 Noon-2 pm

The 2009 Northwest Weather Calendar is also available at

Joes Sports
Alberstons
Made In Oregon

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I'll get to the Smash And Grab title in a bit, but this blog would better be called Matt Zaffino's Indoors. I write from the newsroom in the middle of what is always one of the most exciting and frenetic nights in any newsroom: Election Night. Usually on this night I find myself "field producing", which is to say I'm helping reporters and photographers at one of our remote locations (I was at Oregon Democratic Headqua...

>> Continue reading: Smash and Grab Some Hope

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The wasteland where life happens and we have to work and take care of the mundane and annoying aspects of living that take up the time between trips and adventures. Since my last post on August 23 (I'm lame, I know), I've gotten out a bit and I'll throw a few pics on the end of this blog. But even when we're in the wasteland, there are things we can check out in town that keep the embers of adventure glowing brightly in our souls, or bellies, ...

>> Continue reading: Too Long In The Wasteland

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Another successful Hood to Coast is in the books. Here are some pictures from KGWs Running Footage Team's 197 mile odyssey from Timberline Lodge on Mt Hood to the cool waters of the Pacific Ocean at Seaside.

Craig Brown, from the KGW Sales Dept, makes some new friends. These ladies were from a team of Vegas showgirls. THye had an Elvis in their van too.
>> Continue reading: Hood To Coast: Pictures From The Edge. Of Sanity.

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We're sitting at a way-side on Highway 30 right now, waiting for one of our runners to finish his leg so we can move on in the relay. I'm having a little trouble with the cell phone internet connection, so I've only been able to upload a couple picstures so far. But, Elvis has definitely left the starting line:

>> Continue reading: In Progress: Hood To Coast

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It all started out so well.

Mt Baker on the approach, Friday August 8, 2008

As the Olympics got u...

>> Continue reading: Mt Baker Snow, Rain Reshape The Climb

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I know it's been a long time since I updated the ol' blog, but it's been a while since I've done anything blog and training worthy. There was the trip to Tennessee for the Bonnaroo Music Festival in June. A totally fantastic and fun endeavor, but I wasn't exactly logging any miles as KINK FM 102s Music Director Dean Kattari and I produced radio reports. Then there was the American Meteorological Society Conference in Denver, ...

>> Continue reading: Cycle Oregon: Cross Training At The Coast

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This is me planting a self-portrait on Gina's camera. The recently betrothed Gina. More on that later. But in the background, you'll notice my mountain bike still racked on my truck. I'm lame. The bike never got off the rack last weekend!

>> Continue reading: A Weekend Of Mt Baker Training. Or Not.

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The last, and only other time I tried to climb Mt Baker, my friend Gary Lawton and I looked up at the gathering clouds licking the 10,781 ft summit from about 9,000 feet and decided we'd lose that fight with Mother Nature. We were then literally chased down the mountain by the descending clouds of an incoming storm. Luckily we were on skis and made fast tracks back to the tent, where we were socked in with pea-soup thick clouds about 5...

>> Continue reading: Climbing Mt Baker: This Time, It's A Fight.

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You probably remember the media furor over the "Mt Hood 8", the group of climbers, including Velvet the Dog, who got disoriented during a storm on the way back down Mt Hood in February 2007.

I remember that weekend well. Saturday was sunny and beautiful. I went for a run on the outer edges of Forest Park. Admiring the always stunning sights of Mt Adams, Mt Rainier and Mt Hood, I took in the view of the lenticular clouds forming on the...

>> Continue reading: Silcox Hut Serves A Happy Anniversary

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