Monday, May 19, 2008

Utah's for Lovers...

...or people who want to do what they can to find a drink, and/or seek death in Mother Nature's arms.

I choose to do both of those things.

The initial two weeks here at USF have been going well. I'm loving rehearsals, loving my company members, and loving getting to wake up, go to the gym, go to rehearsal, have a drink, lather, rinse, repeat. I do well with this life. Or this life does well with me. Or something.

Also, I'm loving hitting the trails every weekend.

This last week I went on a solo hike in Zion National Park. I chose Angel's Landing, which is pretty much a 5 mile round-trip involving serious elevation gains and a lot of open exposure during the last half-mile. Here's the view from the top:



Which, you know, is cool.

I attempted to speed-hike the trail, which was all good. I made good time from the trailhead to the beginning of the climbing/scramble section.



But the tight trail-space and volume of touristas on the trail pretty much killed my goal of ascending and descending in 1:30. 'Cause, well, it's a tight space with massive drop-offs.



But that's cool. I still had a fantastic time.

Anyway, things go well, here.

More to come anon, and such.

Cheers,

Justin

I lived, by-the-way. Thanks for asking.

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