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BUSY!

I am continuing to work at my restaurant and in addition to that in June I began working for one of my old trainers at Endzone Athletics in Kirkland. It is a ton of fun! I teach 4-8 classes a week for girl 10-18 yrs old. Most of it is volleyball hitting approaches and volleyball based strength training. It is something I really can do well and am liking it a lot. BUT, it means I work 7 days a week at kind of weird times so scheduling other things is difficult and sleep comes in short nights and sporatic naps.

I'm whining a little, forgive me.

For the 4th of July Nial and I backpacked nearly 20 miles roundtrip to the Deception Lakes. We parked my car way up HWY 2 (stevens pass hwy) and followed Deception Creek (very much not a creek, but in fact, a river). The first day we went 5 miles before making camp on a sandbar by the river, it was splendid spot actually. Saturday (the 4th) we hiked the remaining 5 miles and it was KILLER! It was almost strictly elevation gain and it was grueling. Over the whole 10 miles up we gained over 2,000 feet in elevation, most of it in the second leg.

But worth it! We had 3 lakes almost all to ourselves, we only had to share them with 2 other people. It was a glorious way to spend the holiday, picnicing on rocks and jumping in the alpine lakes. Sunday, we did all 10 miles down in less than 5 hours... it was all downhill :)

Nial was home for all of 2 days before he took off again, this time by himself. He had the week off of work (silly gov't jobs....) so he wanted to go back "UP." I dropped him off where Beckler River Road ends and the FS roads begin. He had his fly rod and his backpack and this time... a camera!