BRO PAUL EHMAN "CHECKS" IN
One of my internet search engines...

...returned an article containing the name "Paul Ehman" in an article in the Saipan Tribune newpaper a couple weeks back. So I checked it out and, sure enough, it was Brother Paul....



http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?newsID=46108&cat=2

So I sent Paul an email about the Saipan article, and he wrote back and sent these pics which the EFB has interspersed below:

Tom,

I saw the article in the paper the morning the volcano north of Saipan went off and it got lost in the clean-up, the noon sky was as dark as midnight, flights were cancelled, everyone stayed inside until evening, etc. We were covered with ash. No pictures of me, just an article leading the week of XTERRA coverage...

Just before Saipan, I took the kids to Lake Tahoe to visit Todd Jackson and ski. Nalu and Roxane are really good skiers and followed me through the trees, moguls, black diamond runs, back country runs, and of course to the hot chocolate lines. It snowed almost every day and the kids got their first real "face shots" doing powder runs in snow that was chin-deep.





They also learned how to shovel the driveway at Todd's!





[Obviously, they also took in a bit of SFO either before or after Lake Tahoe; these shots must have been taken between the Golden Gate Yacht Club and Fort Mason, at or near Cressy Field.... TFE]





I'm now off for a tech scout of Nevada for our new event: Nevada Passage ( www.nevadapassage.com). Check out the TV trailer on the website. We'll have to drive some 1100 miles in SUV and snow mobiles to plot crew movements and camera positions for our shoot in May. Then it's back to Vegas for a week of the Miss Hawaiian Tropic International photo shoots and pageant. May 3rd back home for knee surgery to repair cartilage and meniscus (recommended 10 years ago) before limping back onto the XTERRA trail May 6th for our first U.S. event this year in Temecula.

We're working up plans for the summer stop in Michigan end of June/July so if you know anything about your schedule please send it along.

PE

Since Paul sent no pics of himself, this is a perfekt opportunity to run this one of Paul I recently found on the web....



Who, other than Paul, can ID it? Hints: (1) 1979-80, (2) the three-letter name of an Australian animal, and (3) the title of this post.