Friday, August 18, 2006
Four days of Fun
Melissa and Sarah flew up alaska to visit me and i got four days off to do nothin but play, whoopya! We hiked up to byron glacier and played on a rocky beach in Cook Inlet because melissa had never been to an ocean before. Then the next day we drove up to Denali to meet mary and jedd. we got up there and went river rafting down the Nenana River for free! Jedd knew this river guide, Stephanie, that needed to get certified and fill her boat with some employees around Denali (Clients were too big of a risk), so we just pretended that we worked in the area and climbed on board. We wore wet suits, booties, beanies, and gloves, cause we were goin' through some chilly water. It was class three and four rapids, really fun! Stephanie was a good guide, she was a really cool girl (you could say that me, mary, and melissa all wanted to be her). Later we hiked up Healy mountain, met this guy on top that had climbed "the mountain" (mount Mckinley), and then we ran back down, it was way fun!
Oh, i took out my braids and decided not to put dreds in because BYU-I will probably make me cut them out once school starts and it wouldn't be worth the effort, some of their rules are alittle ridic i think. so anyways i wanted my hair shorter, so melissa cut it for me that night, in the dark, with a pair of regular scissors, with me sitting in a lawn chair in the middle of a dirt road. i'm sure it looked hilarious. melissa did a good job, despite the circumstances, i was impressed.
The next day we left Denali, rock climbed by anchorage for a while and then met keith in Girdwood. The Grand Plan... to high line over a gorge. We hiked in and set up the slackline. My attempt to cross the gorge was a little intense. it was my first high line, so you could say i was a little shaky, and my reaction time seemed to be a little slow for some reason because every time i fell off i would just dive off head first and only caught myself on the line twice (good thing we wore harnesses and had a leash). so the first time i fell i think i hit my foot on a rock below me (i didn't walk out far enough) because when we were done and my adrenaline rush had lowered i found two big cuts on my foot. The last time i tried, i dived off head first (I'm a freakin genious, i know)and saw the the rock literally flash before my eyes by only a few inches! to sum up this little drama, if the leash was any longer, the line any looser, or if i had taken one less step, i could have hurt my head just a little bit (to put things lightly). So i did a great job at officially freaking everyone out, they seriously thought i was going to die. we got it on my camera video, it looks pretty intense. i was willing to try one more time, but it was getting pretty dark and melissa said she wouldn't let me go again, probably a smart idea. So that's the end of that adventure, it was a good one.
Oh, i took out my braids and decided not to put dreds in because BYU-I will probably make me cut them out once school starts and it wouldn't be worth the effort, some of their rules are alittle ridic i think. so anyways i wanted my hair shorter, so melissa cut it for me that night, in the dark, with a pair of regular scissors, with me sitting in a lawn chair in the middle of a dirt road. i'm sure it looked hilarious. melissa did a good job, despite the circumstances, i was impressed.
The next day we left Denali, rock climbed by anchorage for a while and then met keith in Girdwood. The Grand Plan... to high line over a gorge. We hiked in and set up the slackline. My attempt to cross the gorge was a little intense. it was my first high line, so you could say i was a little shaky, and my reaction time seemed to be a little slow for some reason because every time i fell off i would just dive off head first and only caught myself on the line twice (good thing we wore harnesses and had a leash). so the first time i fell i think i hit my foot on a rock below me (i didn't walk out far enough) because when we were done and my adrenaline rush had lowered i found two big cuts on my foot. The last time i tried, i dived off head first (I'm a freakin genious, i know)and saw the the rock literally flash before my eyes by only a few inches! to sum up this little drama, if the leash was any longer, the line any looser, or if i had taken one less step, i could have hurt my head just a little bit (to put things lightly). So i did a great job at officially freaking everyone out, they seriously thought i was going to die. we got it on my camera video, it looks pretty intense. i was willing to try one more time, but it was getting pretty dark and melissa said she wouldn't let me go again, probably a smart idea. So that's the end of that adventure, it was a good one.
# posted by j:) @ 9:23 PM 
