8:00 Arrived home

8:30 Ate dinner

9:00 Unloaded my Stuff from school to my Living Room

9:30 Packed and sorted all my crap back into the truck

11:00 Fire

Leaving sometime this afternoon…..oh so good to be home.

 

This past weekend was spring weekend, here are some of the best and coolest photos of the weekend.

“When you were born you cried and the world rejoiced, live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. “ 

We live in a world that today is run by oil. Every Thing that is out there is fueled by oil. It is the Drug thats cannot be kicked by this country. This past weekend i was in my paddling class all day, half way through the class we pulled of the river to a beach to get some lunch. As we were sitting there we got talking about what the world is going to be like in when the oil crunch becomes apparent. We talked about the idea of travel and what it really means to go 100 miles. If there is no oil and people have to bike or horse ride 100 miles. It becomes a multiple day journey, oppose to a 3 hours drive. Cars have changed the way we looked at distance between two points.

My instructor Steve, talked about how in the future life as we know it will not be present. Every thing will become much more localized. Steve presented us with a question, where will we fit, with adventure education. He let us think about it for a long while. As i laid there with the sun beating down on my back, i saw a clear image of where we could fit in. Each member of the group presented there thoughts about the subject. There was a range of ideas, but in the end we as a group saw us becoming leaders in a world with no oil. In this field we are being trained to deal with difficult situations and organize our thoughts and solve them the fastest way possible. We can almost promis that things will go crazy when people start seeing things that life as we know it is disappearing.

In the book that mike gave me “Deep Survival” the author talks about how when people are forced to make hasty choices it often leads to a mistake and possible death. In this new world that looks before us people will be made to difficult choices. We as adventure Educators have been given the tools to help others learn to make these choices and to stick with them. This talk with our group made me realize that i do need to to worry about escaping to wild, the wild may creeping up on me.

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Me and my buddy Jesse went climbing today at Rumney on the wonderful spring day.   As we walked to our climb up on the top of Rattlesnake mountain, we passed Waimea cliff and as we passed the cliff we saw this ice, with the sun hitting it in the most perfect way. We passed it two times, one on our way up and one on our way down and the light changed in a dramatic way that was most magnificent to see.

You will notice that all the pictures are on one side of the ice, this is because this time of year we are worried about the ice becoming weak enough to break off the cliff and trundle down the hill. Pilers like this one are all over Rumney, when we walk around you have to run past them so as to minimize the risk of the ice hitting you. But running past these pilers involves really steep trails and loose rock and wet leaves.

What fun!

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Laying down the first climbs of the season with Dave and Jesse . With some Iced trees that i saw on my drive back to school.

So this morning i was hanging out with my good buddy Matt from Plymouth. I look at my phone and i realized that i had missed a call. When i listened to the voice mail it was Joan from the American Conservation Core, she had called to tell me that i was being offered a job with them. I called her back and took the job.

 http://www.rmna.org/acc.html

Colorado here i come!!!

I just read a very interesting article about the Dalai Lama in Time Magazine, it was given to me by my mom. She and I had had a conversation about what would make the perfect government or leader. This led us to talk about Dalai Lama. I did some reading about him on his web page. I would encourage every one to look at his site. What he says is so simple and yet makes more sense then any politician ever has.

http://www.dalailama.com/

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.

3. Follow the three R’s:

Respect for self Respect for others and Responsibility for all your actions.

4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

8. Spend some time alone every day.

9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.

10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.

12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

13. In disagreements with loved ones deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.

14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.

15. Be gentle with the earth.

16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.

17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

   

This is what happens when you get massive amounts of snow on the roof, and then get massive amounts of rain. You get a nice shattered window. This was on top of the cafeteria, no one was hurt thank goodness.

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