Another Day Climbing

It's the last week of boy scout camp and I'm really excited about that fact. I really can't wait until I can sleep in again...call me silly, I know, but I love my sleep.

But I've have some adventures in climbing lately. I actually went climbing on the real rock where we take the scouts... lets just say I didn't do so well, but at least it was tons of fun.

First of all you obviously have to rig up the equipment to go climbing... so here you go.
































Here is a lovely view from top. I sure have been able to adapt to my nervousness of heights. I'm not so nervous, most of the time :) You will notice the lovely pink bag... that's what we carry all our gear in when we go climbing. All the other boys on staff really love the bright pink bag... but really we use it as rope protection. We get the pink bag beat up by the sharp rock instead of the rope. We use our resources.

But here's where I actually got the climb what I just set up:












































I started out really good, but I ended really bad!!!

It really didn't help that my shoes weren't tight at all and would slip off whenever I'd tried to put them in a good rock hold...I guess I should know better.

But enjoy, hope all is going well you you all and until my next post.

An Epic Update!

Since it's been so long since I last posted, it seems I have a lot of catch up to do.

I'm at boy scout camp again and all Is going well. We're going on the 4th week of boy scout camp and 5 weeks since I've been here so I have a lot to catch up on.

So Jason and I stay at our house and just commute to work. It's not too bad, but we just have to wake up super early to get there by 7 am. We do a pretty good job at getting up, its just the continual battle that Jason and I have with the covers while we sleep. There have been a lot of pointing fingers as to who the cover stealer is and I still claim my innocence. Every night is a continual game of tug or war, but Jason finally got proof of the the culprit.















I usually sleep on the side of the bed and it just happened to go toward my side... I can't help it if the covers like me better! Notice the lump in the bed... yep, the true cover stealer!

But camp is pretty fun. We get to work with kids all the time, a thing to be assumed at boy scout camp; but just add the element of heights and you have my life everyday at camp. We get to climb, we get to play on the high wires, we basically get to have a lot patience with kids with fear of heights.

















I got this picture of Jason while doing the COPE. Notice the hammock, not mine, but the staff like to kick up their feet about 35 feet off the ground. I think they are crazy. The irony with this picture is that I wanted to start taking more pictures up at camp to document the summer. So I had my camera in my pocket. I needed to trade places with Jason because he needed to get down. And while climbing up that high telephone pole I totally smashed my LCD screen to my camera and now it doesn't work. I was a little bummed... ok a little more than bummed then, but I'm over it now. So I've been taking pictures with a camera that you can't see on the little preview screen, so my aim and accuracy is totally improving.
















Sometimes I wonder how I get myself into some the things that I do while at camp... and this next picture I really have no comment and we are going to leave it at that!















So I got some new shoes that I think are pretty sweet. I've wanted some pretty fun shoes and I think these fit that description to the T. I'm pretty much excited about the shoes. Silly I know, but true.
































But my other pair of shoes I wear are my Airwalks (that are like Crocs) and by the end of the day Jason and mine feet get a little dirty. So enjoy the following:
































You just have to love the Black Hills! Oh well.

But Jason and I are doing good, having fun, and trying to deal with the hayfever up here at camp.



































Until next time.