Yesterday was a great day – the temps were cool, but nice in the sun – conditions were great! John Michael and I rolled up to the park around 9pm – I had passes, but he was 15 people deep in the waiting list – just as I finished an email – the park staff sounded that there were two slots left in a volunteer tour to East Mountain – We jumped at the opportunity and spent the day with two cool tour guides – Michael and his GF Stephanie.
Man – what a cool place – lots of good problems – we got to see Slash Face (Ashley – if you don’t know that problem – shame on you!) John Michael basically crushed – sending from V0 through V8 (don’t know if he did a V3?)
Lighting was horrible – actually worse than that – but I made do with what I had.
So today – I went into the park for about 5 hours – hung out with Matt and Charlotte again – Charlotte was taking a rest day – so I handed her my camera and gave her a few pointers – and then it got WINDY – it was crazy – like dust storm nasty crazy! I bailed at lunch time – headed back to the ranch – made some rice with beans – and then found Kristoph’s – a coffee shop in El Paso that has free, unrestricted internet (well – I can’t FTP, but other than that – I’m doing great)
On the drive here – I was barraged by a “herd” of tumble weeds – the one was BIG too – it was like maybe 3 feet in diameter – thankfully they all just bounced off the front of the Civic – but for a moment there – I was like….oh…….no……!
It was warm last night for the first time in forever – It was nice – I crawled out of the two sleeping bags and just used my sheet.
I’m sooooooooooooooooo incredibly pumped today – like it was hard to carry my photo gear around today – I was THAT pumped…I’m hoping to heal for tomorrow – but I dunno what’s gonna happen!
I ran again this morning – another 25 minutes – sufficient to say – I’m pretty beat up. It feels good though. Tomorrow I’m in the park again – bouldering – hopefully well rested and ready to CRUSH.
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