Update

I've been a super duper slacker lately about updating my LJ so here's some crap that's being going on:

Christine and I went backpacking with Nat and Carolyn up near Steamboat a couple weekends ago. I had gotten sick that week, so it maybe wasn't the best time to be backpacking. I think I may have had a fever the first night, but I felt reasonable afterwards. As far as high mountain lakes go, the one we hiked to (Long Lake) wasn't all that nice, and we ended up hiking down from the lake to go to a better camping spot near a river. That was our warmup trip for the year, so now we're ready for bigger and better things.
(Take a look at the map for the hike. Looks normal at first. Then you see that map is orientated with North pointing down. The elevation profile is in the lower left, and you can see from the "You are here" text that the profile reads from right to left. What kind of messed up person drew this map?)

Last weekend we went climbing with Livia, Carol, Tyler, and Jamie. I haven't spent much time in the Independence Pass area, and I had forgotten how beautiful it is up there. I think we'll have to plan some other camping trips up there. The climbing was cool and I led 3 routes (a 5.8, 5.9, and 5.10a). Our camp site had plenty of available wood so we had a fire each night. We are still put to shame when it comes to car camping accoutrements, but we're getting better. We at least thought to bring s'mores this time.