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.

Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, ’cause “the West is the best.” And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild. – Alexander Supertramp May 1992

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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!