This Emily and her friend and team mate Alex Johnson participating in the Pole Peddle Paddle last saturday.  This is Emilys' third year in it.  What is the Pole Peddle Paddle you ask?  Well, it's a race with lots of different legs that people either compete themselves and do the whole thing or people have teams and do different legs of the race.  Emily is on a team so she does the rowing or "paddle" part of the race.  The race starts up at Mount Bachelor.  The first person sprints part way up the mountain wearing ski or snowboarding boots and carrying either skis or their snowboard.  Then they either ski or snowboard down the mountain.  That's the "pole" part.  I might mess the sequence up here a bit but I believe next is the cross country skiing.  Then the next person bikes down the mountain 20+ miles to town.  That would be the "peddle" part.  Next comes the runner.  I believe that's around 5 miles.  Next is Emily and Alex' part.  They row in their boat up stream then down stream then back up stream (maybe a mile or two).  That would be the "paddle" part.  Finally comes the sprint to the finish line and that's about 1/4 of a mile.  It all takes about 2.5 hours.  There are hundreds of teams and/or participants.  Maybe a thousand people.  I could be way off here I'm not sure all I know is there's a lot of people.  Some of teams have a theme that they dress as.  So there's lots of people dressed really crazy while they are participating.  It's pretty funny sometimes.  What's really impressive about Emilys team is that they participate in the adult full race.  On sunday they have a kids version.  They had several articles in the paper about their team last year with some funny quotes from Emily.  It was such a hot day.  A record here.  I think it was about 96 degrees.  So miserably hot for the participants (and the viewers).