It's a beautiful Saturday; the sun is out full blast and the temperature is comfortable and some of my friends are out hiking antelope island. Yet... Here I sit in my office all afternoon, diligently programming tracers into the model I'm using. What gives? Well, earlier this week I was having dinner with Jenny and she is going to conference in Moab next week. She asked if I wanted to go and stay in her hotel room and go hiking when she's not in sessions. I told her "no way" since I was just in Orlando for a week. But then I got to thinking that if I work THIS weekend and NEXT weekend then I would totally make up for the four days I will be gone. Thus, here I sit.
I've actually been more productive today that I normally am on weekdays. I'm SO excited about Moab too. It's nice that I have a job where I can take off middle of the week and make up the time. Lately I've been getting very excited about summer and all the trips I've been planning. Here's a run down of the trips I plan to take this summer:
1) San Rafael Swell in spring
2) Return to Needles District of Canyonlands (spring)
2) Glacier National Park (July or August)
3) Teton National Park (July 4th weekend.... CROWDED, I know)
4) Uintas backpacking trip to Ottoman basin and summit of Cleveland peak (sometime in July or August)
5) Wind Rivers backpacking trip to Cirque of the Towers (on way back from CMMAP conference in August), probably a solo trip since I'll be driving back by myself
6) Uintas backpacking trip to one of the many destinations I want to go to (Deadhorse Lake, Allsop Lake, Kings Peak, and so forth... prolly August or September)
7) The Annual Wind Rivers backpacking trip over Labor day weekend (destination to be determined)
8) Wasatch backpacking trip up Thunder Mountain and Hardy Lake (prolly September when it starts to get cool)
9) And I want to make it up to the Sawtooth's in Idaho or the San Juan's in Colorado.
OMG... this is a lot and I hope to do most, if not all of it. My advisor will be traveling a lot this summer so I'm sure I'll be able to take plenty of three day weekends (but working A LOT during those four days). This list doesn't even include all the day hikes I want to do in the Wasatch and Uintas. June is going to be the red headed step child month... Because it will be too hot at that point to go to southern Utah yet still too snowy in the mountains up north to do any backpacking trips. Oh well, I'll just work a lot that month I guess.
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I've been working weekends a lot lately (one of the negative sides of being "close" to finishing my masters) and I have to say i am sooo much more productive when I come to work on sat/sun. No one else is here to distract me and since I am at work on a weekend ... I don't want to waste my time doing stupid things like facebook stalking.
I am jealous of all your summer plans ... since I dont actually have a defense date set and CMMAP stuff is going to take up almost every day from July 14-31 I am 99% sure I will not be leaving Fort Collins all summer ... I am super bummed, but I keep telling myself ... once you are finished you can do something fun!!!
Pete that sounds like an awesome summer! Hope you get to do all of those trips!
I really want to go to the San Juans and Glacier, too. They are both definitely more than a long weekend though, well at least Glacier. We will see. I think our next backpacking trip will be Memorial Day weekend, we can maybe do a 4-day trip, which would be sweet!
Oh yeah and your pictures from Moab on facebook are amazing!! :)
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