Posts Tagged as ‘climbing’

August 4, 2008

My epic (or not so…) climb

  
    Okay, so if you want a really adventurous (maybe not so true) story of the totally epic climb I did. Read on. If not I’ll tell you what actually happened, but I always find it more fun to tell what really didn’t happen. =)
 
     I’d heard tell of a rock wall down by the raging river (swim [...]

July 21, 2008

My weekend of mental rest and physcial exhaustion…

Thursday morning the campers leave, taking with them the most hyperactive, distracted junior-high girls on the face of the planet. Oh, and I happened to be their facilitator. So, exhausted and ready for some intelligent conversation, I prepare for a day of rest.
Oh! Did i say rest? I meant work, sorry.
After the campers leave the facilitators are [...]

April 14, 2008

Mt. Everest… have you ever really looked?

I’m doing research on Mt Everest for a project, and it is totally cool! Have you ever really studied Mt Everest? Well, here are some cool things I dug up…
- By the time you reach the Base Camp (the first camp up the mountain) you are already 17,700ft above sea level! The famous “14teeners” are [...]