This is the life

Just got back from an overnight camp up at the saddle on of Mt. Olympus. Such a good time. No better way to ring in the summer solstice than 10,000 feet up on a mountain top. One of the best sunsets of my life. Truly blessed to have seen and done so much this past year.

The night before I went on an epic mountain bike ride up the Wasatch Crest. If you have never been to Utah, do it. It is hard to find nothing to do in Utah. There is always something somewhere to go and see.

Motto for this month. Go forth and do Epic
So far I have accomplished it pretty damn well.

Don't Stop Breaking Down the Doors

Kam

Southeast in the Southwest

Soooooooo the past week has honestly been on of the wildest of my life. Last weekend I was in Durango with Jake to reminisce, see old friends, river float, hike, party, and mountain bike. I LOVE Durango. The American southwest is honestly one of the most incredible places in the entire world. I am so lucky to live so close to it. On our way back we decided to stop in Moab and skydive with some friends I met working at Super Fly. SO EPIC. 

As if life couldn't get any cooler, I found out 20 minutes before leaving that my co worker had a spot for me to come swing Corona Arch in Moab yesterday. Long story short. It was probably one of the most epic 24 hours of my life. 

Getting to Moab 1am

Arrive at Corona arch 145

Start setting up the swing in the middle of the night under the stars and arch.

I got to lay at the bottom waiting to hook up the haul line to the swing line. Lying underneath the arch for two hours looking up at the stars was something I will never forget. Once I hooked the line, I quickly hiked to the top, and joined the three other guys setting up for a rappel. Nothing quite like rappelling off an arch in southern Utah in the dead of night with no lights on. Fall asleep around 515 and wake up at 7 to finish setting up and swing for a few hours. I got three jumps and one more rappel. EPIC

Due to land rights issues Corona Arch probably will not be swing-able for long. I am so glad I was able to have the experience for myself. I will never forget my night/day there.

Don't Stop Breaking Down the Doors

Kam

PS- if you jump, go face first it is scary as hell but well worth the ride.

Looking back

So this past weekend was one of the greatest experiences of my life. Back to Durango, skydiving Canyonlands, meeting up with old friends, and seeing some of the most beautiful scenery in the whole world. Below is a journal from my phone which I have tried to keep since November. The posts get less and less frequent, but for those of you who read this, I challenge you to try it out. It is pretty wild to go back and read over your thoughts, to re-live moments long forgotten. Try it. It will not disappoint.

Journal

N20 wild earth. Minimal living. Colorado trail.

N21 misery loves company

N22 out of the loop,

N23 Christmas

N24 Alaskan adventure

N25 almost home

N26 is it ok to envy? Selfish people

N29 wanderlust-never be self righteous 

N30 part ways from that which you don't NEED

D1 spend a lot but very rarely

D2 life is about the journey, not the destination. Stop and enjoy where you are, when you are. Tomorrow is not a promise.

D3 you might regret it if you do, but you'll definitely regret it if you don't.

D4never take anger out on people who aren't involved

D5 it is a wasted day to wish you were somewhere else

D6 modern society rips people from tangible earthly pleasures

D9 life without progression is dead

D10 how to distinguish who you want from who you need?........ Who needs you?

D13 a rock with no hill, or a fish without water

D16 never let situations hold you back from your dreams

D18 where is home?

D19 laid back, island style

D20 is culture happiness? Show me a perfect world

D21 room with a view

D22 save the wave

D25 shoot with 🎥📷 not 🔫

D27 Don't steal.... Nature is not meant to be tamed

D28 destiny? Such a thing?

D30 sick skim sesh, go hard in the paint

J1 start of 2013 - may this year be full of stoke, ride, and shred. Dream big, achieve big. Don't let fear stand in your way.

J2 the less we ask for the more we have to give.

J4 last sunrise run, so grateful, 20 years old living young, free, proud, and eyes wide open. Head held high.

J7 there are no goodbyes in this day and age

J9 make plans, not resolutions

J20 mountain cold, push hard

J22 where to next?

J31 you can be anything, just make sure you are something

F1 You've got to want it as bad as you want to breathe.

F5 may the car gods be with me this weeks

F6 would you really rush out to fall in love?

F7 life is all about living

F8 hopefully no hospital for a long, long time

F14 life is to partake

F16 if you aren't living on the edge, you are taking up too much room

F18 better to have lived a short life loving what you are doing than a long life of misery in pursuit of money

F20 show the world why life is worth living

F24 river run dry

F25 talk with mom about drinking. Don't talk to my kids like they are too young to make their own decisions.

M1 don't let the fun find you, go find the fun. Look at what you have, not what you don't.

M2 no day but today

M4 one way or another we are all connected

M5 so many people travel the world and see nothing

M7 be nice the people on the way up because they're the same ones you'll meet on the way down

M10 you'll never win the lottery if you don't buy a ticket / don't let the things you consume end up consuming you

M12 today is 110

M16 the grass is green on this side : spring fling

M17 at the end of the day you have to choose your slavery

M18 slc makes me feel like a round peg in a square hole

M21 it takes strength to turn anger into something positive

M23 no matter how hard you wiggle, no matter how hard you dance, the last drop always goes down your pants - if you want to start a revolution you have to be willing to rub elbows with the radicals

M25 morticians are good at the dead lift

A3 the best way to feel the ocean is to dive right in. - every once and a while a star comes along, a star so bright that you can't help but notice it

A4 there are two goddesses in our hearts the goddess of wisdom and the goddess of wealth most put wealth before wisdom.

A6 first flight!!!

A13 not all who wander are lost

A14 last day of the season

A15 breathing rate Native American bus... All connected. --sail the asphalt seas

A17 you don't stop living when you get old, you get old when you stop living---all I can skiing chapter 5 imagination

M8 want not need not

M16 what you share with the world is what it keeps of you

M20 you don't have to find out you are dying to start living

J2 there are those who learn to walk and those who learn to run.

J6 some times you have to put your car in park to enjoy the ride

J8 what's the rush??

Don't Stop Breaking Down the Doors

Kam

What a week

Life is good

Soaring Crawfords

SIV course over Bear Lake

Biking shoreline
Climbing/Repelling at the mouth of Parleys Canyon
3 BBQ's
2 Trail Runs
Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros concert
Hockey game

I am content. Off to swim and play street hockey!

Don't Stop Breaking Down the Doors

Kam