No Mountaineering

Monday, February 23, 2010

The mountaineering group left today for their 4 day ice climbing trip. I've been regretting my decision to bail on the mountaineering, especially given that I couldn't make the winter trip. I haven't been out since November and I'm feeling well out of the loop in terms of experience and group activity. I'm not the only one who opted out but that doesn't change how I feel. And in researching my independent project on blogging in experiential education, I found a site where someone was talking about their eventual move from refusing to think about ice climbing to becoming somewhat addicted to ice climbing, especially water falls. The pictures were beautiful and his descriptions made me pine more for the adventure.

Looks like I'll be on the rock climbing trip even though I doubt I'll go for certification. There are so many new aspects to the ropes now. I'm still happy with my awareness that I'm synthesizing the knots and set-ups that we learned in the fall. . . not enough for cert but enough to know that I've learned new information and skills. Getting back to the gym after a hiatus.

Have been doing more thinking about what I've been learning over the course of these months but it always seems to be at times that I can't write and then I've lost the thoughts when I can write. I need to be more purposeful around this. Also need to work on my resume and job search. Nope, no idea what I'll be doing when this is all over. Need to keep trusting.