In short: A lot of traveling, a little work at home and at Cascade Bicycle Club, and a little time on the beach.
I started off with an ended-too-quickly bike trip. Left straight from school, was in Jacksonville, FL by evening, and on my bike 6 hours later. Two weeks later, I stopped off in Houston, unprepared for cycling through 110-degree temperatures and wildfires in New Mexico and Arizona. Not quite a letdown; instead, an invitation to explore the SW more in the non-summer months.
Home for a couple dozen hours, then off to Holden Village, an old-mining-town-turned-vacation-camp in the North Cascades. Exchanged 30 hours a week of felling, bucking, and splitting firewood for delicious food, my own room, and lots of trail running and scrambling.
A week of herding 5-9 year-olds on bikes, and then some house painting.
A couple rock climbing trips to Leavenworth and other areas of the Cascades, including one with an awesome lightning storm and burning trees.
A weeklong trip to the beach at Fort Flagler, mini family reunion, the whole works.
Another week at work, then off to: Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming for horseback riding, hiking, and climbing in the Centennial Valley and the Tetons.
Some more mountain awesomeness in a quick 35 mile backpack through Spider Gap.
Then a trip to Mazama, WA for the Cutthroat Classic, where my brother and I went 1-2 in the 19&U age group.
Just finishing off the summer with a trip to the cabin and a day at home packing.
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