Scott was here!

So on Sunday Scott, who I worked with the past two summers at Sanborn, was up with his family to the park so I tagged along with him. We tried to make a hike up to a lake in the park but because the weather ended up being crappy we had to come down and settled for a real touristy hike around a beautiful lake called Bear Lake. After that we all went down the road a little ways and with the art supplies that Scott's family had made at a recent trip to Michael's we all painted a landscape of Long's Peak. Pretty cool, and fun, except Scott's painting had a frowny face in it. After that we went and had a bite to eat and parted ways.

Monday, though, Scott came back up in the afternoon with his sister Brittany and we hung out in a room I was able to get for free here at the Y and just enjoyed the evening and each others company. Tuesday morning I had to work though and after that we all packed up our things and headed up to the Monastery to do some camping. Upon Scott's insistence we headed out ridiculously early, 3 p.m., and were extremely bored all afternoon so I ended up reading a little bit more on my book "Around the World in 80 Days," by Jules Verne. When dark finally came around though we were lucky enough to get some really clear skies and had some awesome star gazing and satellite watching. On Wednesday, we all then ended up heading into the park and hiked up past Bear Lake, this time to another lake called Emerald Lake. It was beautiful, but on the way down we got slammed by a storm and were stuck under a pine tree with this really cool family for like 30 minutes until we just decided to make the last mile a run for the cars. After that we headed back to the Y where I had an epic trying to find a comp night room and thankfully Joey came through and let us use one of her comp nights so Scott and Brittany didn't have to pay for a room. Joey is great!

That leads us to yesterday which was pretty awesome. I got my roommate John to cover my afternoon shifts and Wayne, Abbey, Lyndsey, Matt, and I all headed down to Boulder to do some shopping and head to Morrison to listen to James Taylor play at Red Rocks Amphitheater. It was awesome! We didn't have tickets so we hiked up on the hill that overlooks Red Rocks and could hear perfectly. Towards the middle of the second set though everyone was getting a little tired so we started to head down. Just by chance I wanted to run in and see if I could catch Scott, his sister, and Elliot, who I worked with two summers ago, and it happened. I cruised right through the gates and for some reason found Scott on his way to the bathroom. I was then lucky enough to SEE some James Taylor and give some proper hellos and goodbyes.

These last four days have been insane for sure and I really can't wait to get back home, get my wall setup, and start climbing and working on some new projects at Jackson Falls! I'll be seeing everyone soon!