Swing, Swing, Skate, Skate

I mentioned before that I've entered this semester with great optimism and this last friday is one of hopefully many manifestations of these aspirations.

The day started cold and rainy but later in the afternoon the sun decided to come out. Looking to take advantage of this window of opportunity my friend Rodrigo came up to my room. "Dude, get your gear out, lets just look at it until we think of something awesome to do." We ended up taking everything with us: three ropes, two ascenders, one shunt, petzl trolly, two harnesses, figure eight, atc, and tons of webbing and beaners. We headed off into the woods after grabbing another buddy Robert, together we set off looking for anything "adventure." We quickly found a stream with steep banks and an overhanging tree, perfect for some "stupid human tricks." After contemplating wether we should make a zip line, a rappel, a swing, or a leap of faith (emprovised bungy jumping we settled on a big swing! I quickly shimmied out on the tree to set a webbing anchor and set the rope. Rigo elected to be the ginny pig and took the leap. Swinging out off the twenty foot drop off screaming he soared towards the opposite bank and back again! After him, robert and I took our turns with similar successfulness!

Many more stunts will be tired here.

After our swing we went strait over to a friend's house for some banana pancakes. Later that night we had college night at the skate ring, so what ever energy we had left.

Good first weekend back, I hope keep it up!