Here's a shot from the top of the cliff, where the line was anchored and you can see the bottom.


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I hiked up to the base of the cliff and then walked down guiding the litter on the orange line that's suspended in the picture. The bottom of this picture isn't even halfway down. After we got through the trees then we had to maneuver through a bunch of large rocks/small boulders.


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You know what will make me guaranteed to not read a fic? When even the summary is littered with grammatical errors. How can I expect your story to be readable when the summary isn't? Seriously, people. *sigh ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to post about this for the last month. I was hoping to include photos, but if anyone actually took some of me, I've yet to see them. So a post without photos instead. This is long, so I'm cutting. If you're looking for the most interesting part only, skip down to Sunday -- Vertical. That's when I went over the edge and did much ( Read more... )

My hamstrings are tight today. Super tight. I'm a day off schedule this week for the Plan, so yesterday was cardio day. I got up, did 15 minutes of light yoga stretching and took Buddy for a walk. Then I debated doing cardio or not because I knew I was going to work my ass off at SAR training. I did no cardio and boy am I glad ( Read more... )

First -- The Plan is back in action ( Read more... )

Thank you for all the congrats on my EMS exam. I somehow managed to turn off comment notifications and was sitting here thinking no one had read my posts. *head desk*

So thank you all!

Here's a pic of me going over the edge with the litter the other night. :)


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At last night's SAR training I got to go over the edge with the litter and "rescue" someone. Thank god I got J, who is one of our smaller guys because OMG was it hard ( Read more... )

Went down to Winter Park to get photocopy of my driver's license notarized and then put my state EMT certification application in the mail! One step closer to employment ( Read more... )

My 6 volumes of The Outsiders comics arrived today! Yay! I ordered them a couple weeks ago, but they got held up in actually shipping. (Boo ( Read more... )