Life in the West

I haven't published a Post since returning from Asia, so a lot has happened since then and I will list a few highlights and get back to the present.
Bike trip to Fontainebleau:
I took a ferry to Dieppe in France with Clare and Greg, two friends from Bristol. The three of us spent 4 days biking from Dieppe to Fontainebleau, going through lots of charming french villages and ending up at our final campsite just in time to meet the rest of the climbing crew for a week of great bouldering and excellent fun.

Sam and Mara's visit:
After climbing in France I hitch-hiked home and soon after getting back Sam, a good friend from College, came to visit with his sister Marah. We enjoyed excellent weather and did lots of walking and some climbing and hanging out at my appartment. It was a great way to get home to have people to share the beauty of my little neck of the woods.
I worked at my restaurant job for a month and then John came to visit:

John's visit:
Once again the weather cooperated nicely. I took John, another close college friend, climbing and he got to witness the culmination of my climbing efforts that spring as I managed to climb the most challenging and satisfying climb I have ever accomplished. We also got to go on an excellent hike that involved a little hitchhiking, a long via ferrata up a huge limestone wall, a quick dip (with my cell phone...oops) into an exquisite alpine lake, and a day walking along a very narrow and exposed ridge. We also took advantage of a bad weather day to rappel into a cave that still has glacial ice stuck inside it. All in all a very exciting visit.

LPC Freedom,
After John's visit my grandparents stopped in for an extremely short visit of 2 nights and my parents and I took them to the airport, where I also boarding a plane for the states. I headed for Freedom, NH to be a counselor at a summer camp connected to the Ecole d'Humanite (the international boarding school where I grew up, but unless i'm mistaken about the popularity of this blog everyone who reads this will already know that). I spent 5 weeks in Freedom with an excellent staff and a rowdy and wonderful group of 9-13 year olds. Everything went very smoothly and now, without much warning, i'm done with camp and facing the rest of life.

Life in the West:
After a few more days in the Boston area I plan to head West and find a future. I haven't yet decided where I want to live, which is both exciting and a little difficult to plan around. I look forward to whatever lies ahead and will hopefully keep people updated on what that is.