Top of Angel's Landing

Hiking to the top in the ice and snow

At Chichen Itza

The top of McConkey's

Well it has been awhile since my last posting but I think since I have no life (school is my life aka I have no life) its time to tell others about how awesome it is. I started back up at BYU this semester after a wonderful trip to Cancun, Mexico. Seriously, it was a great trip. Think about it, I literally walked around downtown Playa del Carmen with no shirt or shoes on and everyone still let me buy stuff. Honestly, the U.S. "hygiene standards" are a little inflated. Here at BYU I have a number of adventures so far but the highlights without a doubt are studying at the library, listening to a lot of audio books, and my personal favorite, studying at my apartment . I warned you, no life. However, in an effort to see the light of day, I have done the following: snowboarding around 15 times, gone on several dates with my girlfriend, and went camping and hiking in Zion's National Park. In all seriousness, the last three have definitely been the best times. In Zion's, we hiked Angel's Landing and honestly it was one of the scariest things I have ever done. I am sure in the summer time to hike up that ridge it is difficult because of that fatsos that take forever to walk up the trial causing a bottle neck for everyone else, but I did it for the first time when there was snow and ice covering said trail. The coolest thing is coming down because we got to slide down an ice patch and hope we didn't go too far and end up at the bottom of the canyon.  It also helped the fun factor of snowboarding to have your parents fly up and go with you. Always a plus. Despite all these great and wonderful things, I am torn. I want it to warm up so that I can go camping and fly fishing and not freeze my butt off, but I also want it to stay cold and snow more so that I can enjoy spring skiing. The difficulties I face being a 21 year old are immense.