Lake District Pics

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The Lake District

I had an awesome trip to the lake district with the Breakaway club this past weekend. The first day we climbed to the top of Scafell Pike, the tallest point in England at 3,199 feet. At the summit, it was 0 degrees Celsius with a wind chill at -20 degrees. It also broke out into a hail storm for about five minutes. The next day we hiked along a tall ridge covered in snow with the same high winds and low visibility. Finally, the last day my three friends and I went on a monster 9 mile hike up to the top of a ridge and summiting about six or seven peaks along the way. It was a weekend well spent and there are lots of great pictures to enjoy!

Cool Stuff

Here's a list of some of the cool stuff I'll be doing within the next month.

Jan. 19th-22nd: Traveling to the Lake District in Northern England for three days of hill walking with my friends. It sounds like the "Yosemite" of the United Kingdom (in terms of beauty, not elevation) so I should have plenty of pictures to share.

Jan. 28th-February 4th: Sometime within this week a couple friedns and I are going to go snowboarding in Glenshee (that is if they ever get any snow).

Feb. 16th: I'm going to a concert in Edinburgh with a friend in this cool small venue that holds about 600 people to see The Black Keys and The Black Angels, both of which are awesome raw blues bands.

That's it for now, I gotta go study for my last exam on Geoscience!

2007-The First Update

So I'm finally writing to tell you all that I am back in Scotland and right in the middle of my exams. I just had my Medieval History exam today, and I felt like I did pretty well on it considering how nervous I was going into the test. It really was not as bad as I had expected it to be. In celebration I had my first drink tonight since coming back to Scotland as my friend and I chatted with a pretty funny old Scotsman in a pub. Here is the first thing he said to us after we introduced ourselves: (picture an old man with a thick Scottish accent) "Eeh, lemme tell ya somethin, don't ever f&!%@ get married." He turned out to be a pretty nice guy with lots of funny stories to tell.
Anyway, tomorrow I'm planning on playing golf on the Old Course because the ballot is wide open from 9:30 onwards. I just hope the weather holds up, as it has been raining almost every day since I have returned. After exams are finished at the end of next week, I will be going with the hillwalking club on a four day backpacking trip in the Lake District in northern England. It should be really fun; I'll take plenty of pictures. I'm also planning on taking advantage of the two weeks we have off by going up north and snowboarding with some friends. I don't expect the slopes or the snow to be as good as the stuff I am spoiled with in Tahoe, but I'm sure that I'll have a great time. That's it for now, check in soon!