Cold casa greetings

Hanging at Ma Young's Boarding House until the weather stops chilling out...

From the Mountains to the Furnace

I just rolled in from the Wind River mountain range in Wyoming where I taught a 30 day wilderness backpacking course for the National Outdoor Leadership School. We had a great course and I think the Winds is probably one of the prettiest places I have ever traveled through, with giant granite cliffs, high mountain lakes and wildflowers everywhere. 

The students were great and we ticked off 110 miles of hiking. We summited Wind River peak and Mount Victor, crossed the continental divide at Hailey pass and navigated a variety of lesser peaks, passes, and drainages. We saw a few moose, several deer, a set of bear tracks, and a heck of a lot of trout. We got rained on occasionally, but no snow. 

The mountain lakes were absolutely perfect and we swam in our fare share of them. Most of the lakes were full of trout and our course greatly improved our fly fishing success rate over the course. By the time we got to the last lake we were eating more fish for dinner than the food we brought with us!

I am home with my beautiful wife now, relaxing after a day of diving at Lake Travis. She is getting geared up to be a certified diver so we can take the Great Barrier Reef by storm in a few months. Life is speeding up since we decided to head out on a Great American Roadtrip in October. Stay tuned for a new Rosie ad coming up!

Mike

.onward.

it has been quite a while since our last update. the past year has been intense, but beautiful.  we have moved into the back half of a duplex in ATX with our pup and a wonderful roommate named merrell.  our dear rosie's being primped up to sell and we're moving on.  she is a beautiful part of our family and we're excited to see where this next step takes her and whose life she'll influence

as for the youngsters?  onward.  we have been approved for working holiday visas to the great country of australia beginning in january.  the initial length of visa is one year, with room to reevaluate after that.  nat has courses lined up for scuba certification this summer, so she can join mike in all the radness, as well as applied for her AUS nursing license as an option.

until then?  until then, mike will be headed to wyoming to instruct a backpacking/flyfishing course with the National Outdoor Leadership School during June and July.  he is then hoping to take part in a canoeing seminar to be setup for possible employment with NOLS australia as a guide, once down under.  nat's continuing her work as a nurse with St David's Physical Rehab Hospital, and adoring it, while atlas mostly sleeps.





we'l be keeping news/events/goodness posted here for the viewing, enjoy!

all our love,
the youngsters