This one time that Colorado was still the best state ever...

Well, I pretty much haven't posted in ten years, and that's because I've been waiting for something really awesomely hilarious or insane to happen like it usually does. But lately I just haven't had as many near death experiences, abandoned buildings to explore, or crazy "did that just happen...?" type things to report. So, this post isn't actually going to be funny... sorry. Instead I am going to tell you about a real life adventure I had, one that didn't involve breaking the law or anything too ridiculous.

So, this one time I hiked 32 miles up a mountain in five days and discovered that New Zealand is actually located in Colorado. Pretty neat.

See, I am going to be doing this thing... I don't really see the need to explain it when you could easily go to this website and see for yourselves. Basically, it's awesome. If you go to the "meet the guides" part, you will find me... yep there I am, being a guide. So the first week of June all the guides you see there plus the ones we have been training with from Fort Collins and Durango went on Trail Training, which is basically a week for us to all go on a trip together and make sure we know what we're doing. Every day two different people are the "guides for the day," so we all get experience planning a whole day out and leading the team and what not. All in all, the week was definitely one of the better ones of my life. I got to be in one of the most amazing places, hang out with some of the coolest people, and feel like power woman at the end of it.

I am just going to give you a picture tour of the trip along with some observations I made over the week.

Observation #1: Backpacking backpacks... they are heavy. So heavy I continually felt like I was just going to fall backwards and never be able to get up. However, the longer you wear them and the more pain you're in, the more they also become sort of like a friend... sort of.

Observation #2: The water in the below picture was probably the coldest substance I have ever touched in my life. That pain was not like a friend. Not at all.

Observation #3: New Zealand is not so hard to get to.

Observation #4: Snow is not so bad when the temperature above it is still t-shirt weather. And if you have never or don't know what glissading is, you are missing out on one of the greatest parts of life.

Observation #5: Heights--I love them.

Observation #6: God's creation is the coolest.

(that right there is a moose, yessiree.)

Observation #7: I just wanted to make a #7 because I hate the number 6.