Monday, August 30, 2010

Quick Update

Yes, yes, I know...I'm terrible at updating this.  I say that every time I update.  Oh well.

Life has been busy!  The summer class of interns has pretty much gone...the only people left are the people whose internships were extended (there are about six of us).  New interns have started rolling in, too.  Last night, I did the Incline with a group of new interns.  I got my new personal best (43 minutes! Only three minutes to my goal!) and had a chance to chat with some of them.  I wasn't really around much this weekend, so it was the first real opportunity I got to talk to some of them!  I did have to laugh, though, because a couple of them seem a little intimidated by the fact that I hang out with a lot of athletes.  I remember being intimidated by athletes when I first got here, so it's just sort of funny seeing it from where I am now...now, I don't really even think about the fact that they're athletes--to me, they're just my friends!

I'm only working two days this week, then I'm heading back to Indiana for a few days.  Since I didn't plan on staying here until cold weather hit initially, I didn't bring much as far as winter clothes with me.  However, since I'll be here til December now, I have to go get some!  I did buy some wintery stuff at the Warehouse Sale (an AMAZING sale they have at the OTC post-Olympic Games...they sell all of the Olympic apparel for next to nothing...needless to say, I bought quite a lot and now have an extensive collection of official Vancouver clothing), but I still need my coats and boots.  Yay boot season!

And now, I'm back to work...so I'll leave you with some photos of my random things I've done over the past few weeks.

Intern ladies at the Modern Pentathlon Nationals reception

Me at Coors Brewery in Golden, Colo.

Celebrating Seth's 29th birthday (although no Seth in this picture)!

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Mountain Climbing Fool

This weekend, I attempted to cross two 14ers off of my list, Mt. Belford and Mt. Oxford.  Kim, another intern, and I camped in Buena Vista, Colorado, on Friday night and were up at 4:15am to head to the trailhead.  It was a TOUGH hike!  It was quite steep...especially when we had to climb to Mt. Belford a second time (the only way to get back from Mt. Oxford to the trail is to go back over Mt. Belford).  We didn't summit Mt. Oxford because of weather, but we did get halfway to the summit of it.  We conquered Mt. Belford from both sides, though!  Here are some photos!

Some guys at the top had made signs, so we asked to use it for our summit photo.

Just contemplating life on the summit

There were waterfalls all along the below tree line portion of the trail.