Home Safe and Sound

I'm home from my adventures. And quite the adventures they were. I know this is Nicholas' blog, but I'm going to hijack it for a post to share a few pictures of what I did this past week.

I climbed this mountain:

From 2010 August

Seriously. Well, we hiked to the tree line and then climbed the rest of the way in 4 separate climbs. And then we got back down with two repels down this front face back to the tree line and hiked back down. (Honestly, the hikes were almost as physically challenging as the climbs, although less scary because more protected.)

Here is a picture of me on one of our practice/training climbs from Monday:

From 2010 August

And here I am on the shortest repel of the week:

From 2010 August

The climbs were the coolest and most impressive part of the trip for me, but we also spent two days exploring caves. Here is a picture of me coming out of one of the formations in the second cave:

From 2010 August

This section was narrow, but actually comparatively delightful because we could stand upright and the water was really low.

Overall I had a wonderful time. And I was perfectly safe the whole time. It was really great to have some away time and do cool things like CLIMB THIS MOUNTAIN:

From 2010 August

On a Nicholas note, I was sad that he didn't seem particularly excited to see me when we went to get him at daycare. He was mostly looking at me confused and smiling at Joe. He eventually came over and started snuggling in to me, but still without really smiling. I wish I knew what he was thinking.