Sam's RVtastic Life: 2012 Recap

Well I suppose with the coming of a new year and the reflections on the previous year that accompany that change, I figured I’d do a recap blog of 2012 and all of my adventures and/or misadventures.

January was brought in in Prague with my immediate family in a crowded square with fire works being let off in every direction (literally), live bands doing their thing, all of this with a light mist coming down.

In Prague with the family Photo by Dan Feuerborn

February was largely dominated by book learning and day dreams of the desert and life after graduation.

March was kicked off with spring break, which was naturally was spent in the desert climbing hand cracks and pretty much continued that way for the rest of the month with a smidge of studying here and there when it was unavoidable.

April was mostly scrambling to make sure I would actually graduate and getting those final projects and papers printed off. Turns out you can do just fine with a good attitude and liberal procrastination…because I graduated haha.

Gots me sum book learnin' Photo by Dylan Weldin

May was spent traveling for climbing and family, to Illinois, Wyoming, up to Glenwood and Rifle for climbing and back to Durango for festivities and plenty of mountain biking.

Taking a break at the top of Animas Mountain

June’s highlight was making it to Tuolumne for the first time after work training, dang that place is n.e.a.t.

Just relaxing Photo by Kayla Watson

July was spent leading a trip of teenagers to Costa Rica and Belize where we/they hiked, scuba dived, surfed, snorkeled, rafted, fished and sailed.

August began for me on the Lost Coast with a great group while backpacking. From Northern California I moseyed on down to SoCal where I worked a bunch of challenge courses, managed to hurt myself mountain biking and where I got to meet and hang out with a bunch of awesome Boojies.

Both of these are the Lost Coast area

September also began with a backpacking trip though this one was with a bunch of 8^th graders in the Jennie Lakes Wilderness Area in Sequoia/Kings Canyon N.P. From there I spent the rest of the month in Yosemite catching up on and honing some climbing skillz.

Top of Cathedral Peak in Tuolumne after a morning solo

October saw me move back east to Utah and the desert around Moab where I met more fantastic folks, climbed as often as I wanted/could and of course kicked off my modeling career.

Middle Crack Photo by Ryland Bradley

Jogging in the Fischer Towers Photo by Dan Holz

November was quite similar to October in that I was still climbing lots, hanging with and meeting still awesome people out in the desert.

Team Rukus Photo taken from Justin but taken by Becca maybe? (Rafael, Justin, Hannah & Myself)

Last month I moved back to Durango to work blegh. Here I've been climbing a bit, working some, brewing a bit, but mostly spending time with quality friends. Oh and dare I mention I got to play with skeletons in a basement at York University with my oldest little sister, yes real skeletons (granted they were not entirely intact as they were from the later Middle Ages).

This new year was brought in with a trip to England to see the family for the holidays and so once more new years came with them, though this time on the Isle of Skye, a pretty rad island of the west coast of Scotland. Google it, it’s a rather aesthetically pleasing place.