School!

School starts next week. I can't decide if I'm excited or not yet. It feels like school already stared though... I'm going to be over there mornings all week and then at home finishing AP Language stuff and working the rest of the day... this year, however, is going to be an absolute blast. Sure I'm taking a bunch of not-easy classes (and considering adding a 9th because I can) but there's just so much going on... woo!

Now if I could only be a Senior so I don't have to deal with all the stupid Juniors... bleh

Yep, it's true

You'll hear it first from me... the party is just beginning. I escaped (barely) from the Longhouse where there is much happiness.

Rough Draft is the GMA 2008 Band Competition Winner.

Congrats!

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Sorry for the small pic, but here's longs peak today. Note that the cable routes got some snow! Crazy...

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It's very dark out.

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MercyMe acoustic during the artist teaching concert.

CONRATS!

Update for you. It's the end of day 1 up here at GMA. I'm happy to report in that Josiah's entry of "Dance in the Rain" made it past round one in the songwriting competition - he's in the semi-finals. I'm excited for him... and interested in seeing where this goes from here! Best wishes to Stephanie too, even though your songs didn't make the first cut.

Band competition begins tomorrow, and we should start to see the semi-finalists of the artist competition too. More tomorrow!

Laterz!!

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I think i killed Ryan... Haha. We're off the mountain and enjoying a 2:30 "dinner feast"

Well, we made it, but my phone is out of battery, and the wind has been blocking the signal... Lol. What a surprise. Pics coming soon.

Mission: Summit 3

The Mission: To summit Longs Peak for the 3rd time.

Group: Ryan Barnett and I

The Plan: Yes, I'm a wimp... due to the fact that this will primarily be a night hike (light from headlamps alone really... not much moon tonight) I'll ascend via the keyhole route. I know that route with my eyes closed, so dark should be no different... haha! I've considered other ascent routes, but I don't feel comfortable finding clark's arrow in the dark, and would rather not fall off of Chasm View while doing the north face at night. My plan is to start at 11pm for a summit between 4-5am (ish). Post summit, we'll descend via the loft route. This, in itself will be quite a feat, as finding that dang rock in reverse is considerably more difficult than finding it normally. If time (and physical exhaustion allow), we'll hit 13,000ft on Mt. Meeker just to say that we did it.

Stay tuned here for updates!

Almost done!

We're half way up half moon pass... 600 more "up" feet to go, then it's down to the car... Yay!

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That, my friends is 14,005 feet above sea level!

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Welcome from the summit!

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The last 1000 feet of elevation.

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Choose your path wisely... (Note: boulders are larger than they appear)

Trying to regain energy while being eaten alive by mosquitoes at 11,589ft.