Climbing Pain
Doug Finn a teacher friend that lives in Savoonga was in Unalakleet for a C&I (curriculum and instruction) meeting. Doug and his wife Michelle really like to climb, unfortunetly Michelle wasn’t able to come along. So afer work on Monday Doug came over for dinner and climbing. We had some tasty Lasagna, and after letting the food settle for a little while hit the wall. We worked on some new routs. Its fun to have someone to work on problems with. Erin humors me from time to time, but it isn’t one of her loves. So we climbed for a couple hours until our hands could no longer hold on any longer. I took a couple of good falls. You’ll see one in the video clip below. The next day I was pretty sore. The day after that I was really sore.
Jason and I headed out after school on Wednesday up the Unalakleet river. We were scouting out the conditions for pulling the sat-uplink sled for broadcasting the Iditarod live from the trail. It was a pretty rough ride once we hopped off the river. Keeping up with Jason is no laughing matter. Doing 60 mph accross the tundra really gets you bouncing. My back is extremely sore today. Im looking forward to the mushers coming into town.
[QUICKTIME http://media.bssd.org/podcasts/big_fall.mov 320 256]
2 Comments
Carl Pierce on October 19th, 2007
Well, I thought I’d check out this wall that you and Katie spoke of. Looks pretty sweet, I must say! If you want to go climbing next time your in Washington just let me know, there’s some nice granite out here too. It was truly a pleasure to meet you and Erin the other day. Thanks for breakfast and many many good stories.
Erin on March 9th, 2007
That’s right, I don’t climb because I love climbing, I climb because I love you! 🙂 I’m glad you and Doug got some time to use the wall. I hope your back starts feeling better… must’ve been great to get out on the snowmobile a bit! Keep the updates coming… I can’t wait to hear about the Unalakleet stop on the Iditarod. Miss you tons!
xoxo!