Stairway to Heaven

Last weekend Daniel, Mike and I all headed out for another adventure. The "Stairway to Heaven up Provo Canyon was our destination. It is a beautiful series of rock ledges that freezes with ice in the cold. It was a warm day so it made the ice perfect and very sticky but the wind was blowing pretty dang hard. Just when I thought I was getting away from the wind I found myself almost being blown off the mountain.

Daniel taking a shot at mixed climbing.

I was not brave enough to try mixed climbing so I stayed on the ice.

Although at one point I couldn't feel my hands and my arms were burning from climbing I am proud to say I did it and I LOVED it. In my mind suffering to accomplish something makes it even more rewarding when you get to the end. Adventures are not always comfortable nor pleasant, but it is how to truly "live" life. But I still think it should be called the Stairway to Hell.

Winter Camping

Daniel and I needed a brake from Rock Springs
so we packed up our things for the weekend and headed to the Tetons to test our winter camping skills. When we arrived to our surprise it was just starting to rain. Which made our adventure even more epic. Daniel rigged up a sled and was the sled dog the entire trip pulling the heavy sled through the snow.

We found a beautiful area to set up camp and dug out our spot. We thought that if we set up under a tree it would protect us from the rain a little. We learned the hard way that when the wind blows all the snow falls from the tree right on to the tent. It made for an interesting night because right as we would doze of to sleep "BOOOMM" a big chunk of wet and heavy snow would fall from the tree right onto our tent. It sounded like we were in a war zone the entire night.

The next morning the beautiful view was worth the sleepless night.

Sadly we had to end our hike early that day because the weather had made a drastic change as we soon found out when we came across a huge fresh avalanche. But we were just glad to have an adventure, of any sort.

At the end of the day my legs were very tired and Daniel treated me to a ride on the sled. :) What a great guy! Did I ever tell you that I LOVE the TETONS! :)

My last days as a Ragnar Employee!

Well the long hall has come to an end. Leaving Ragnar was defiantly a bitter sweet. I will miss a lot about Ragnar; Traveling, My friends, Ultimate Frisbee, Being a Race Director, Working in the Running world, Frozen Yogurt, The gratification of working hard, The craziness, Ralenes class, and the over all epic experience. I have learned a lot from my experience at Ragnar including how to down more Frozen Yogurt in one helping then I have in a life time, how to work with upset people/ customers, Laugh when fatigued, how to work with (bless there hearts) challenged customers/ volunteers, set up a construction sign, how to hack into a VMS board, how to set up 4 miles of cones at 3:00 AM that were so kindly tip over by angry residents, how to resolve situations with angry dogs, residents, and the occasional goat, how to stuff goodie bags and then some, smooth talk old men, smuggle beer into a non-permitted area and serve it to 2,000 participants, cry, make waffles with cheese, drive a 17 foot Uhaul during rush hour in down town LA, how to get lost in NY city, how to miss a turn because your messing with the GPS, How to talk Enterprise into letting you take the rental car even though you have now way to pay for it, how to convince government inanities to let me slip between the lines and and make and exception for almost every permitting rule, how to brake 1,000 driving laws and not get a ticket, to know what it feels like to work amazing friends, and finally how to pull together an awesome event for thousands of runners to enjoy and some how be smiling at the end of it.


Rachel has been my great friend for a long time and she will be taking over my "baby" (the Ragnar Relay Northwest Passage). And being 100% honest I couldn't have picked a better person to take it over. I am just sad I do not get to work with her.

I have fallen in love with Seattle and the whole state of Washington. One day I hope to live there. On this last trip I finally made it to the much anticipated Vancouver B.C. Although I didn't have a ton of time to explore Vancouver we made it to the public market for lunch, where you can taste some of the most expensive and yummy chocolates you will ever have.

Behold..... VANCOUVER B.C.!!!

For now Goodbye RANGAR!! I will miss you! :)