Yesterday we went on our first climbing trip in the Asheville area. We drove about an hour southeast of the city into beautiful hill country along a winding river, and hiked into the biggest boulderfield I have ever seen. The trees around here are so great, all the ash and oak and maple and magnolias... I think it's the diversity that gets me, definitely a change from the old evergreen forests of the NW; in our backyard we have a huge cherry blossom tree, a huger walnut tree, a row of firs and a bunch of others that I have no clue about. Anyway speaking of trees, we were proud of ourselves while climbing because we set up a top rope anchor on a huge fallen tree, which took some ingenuity, and used our rope to climb a particularly giant boulder - this was at the end of the day, after we had already bouldered for a long time. Well the rope took us forever to set up, and it was so funny because after we had been climbing for about 20 minutes, it suddenly started to rain for the first time since we set foot in Asheville. It was so funny, we laughed and laughed about it.
Anyway, I'm excited to get my climbing hands back and get better than Brad before long. We have also been going on team jogs around the neighborhood, but before you get too healthy a picture of us, know we have eaten Arby's (dollar menu) three times in three days (it tastes the same here as it did in Portland). Other than that we've been sitting on our porch a lot. Oh and we also spend a lot of time getting corrected by the locals when we pronounce words wrong. In other news, Navitat, the company we work for, has giant billboard adds scattered around town. They show a picture of a squirrel wearing a harness and they say "Navitat Canopy Adventures" in big exciting yellow letters. I don't know where they found a harness that small, but it's really pretty cute.
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