A couple weeks ago I finished up training in Dallas and finally returned home to Chattanooga. Mel keeps reminding me that it has been about 16 months since I began the new career change. So, for the last two and a half weeks I've been home trying to make up for lost time. My body seems to have taken the hardest hit over the last year and half without much physical activity and is now weak, soft and flabby... While home I've been able to get out with the fam on a bunch fun outings like: bike rides on our new and expanded neighborhood river trail, hikes, soccer practices/games, plus some climbing and mountain biking. A week ago Mel's girlfriend Heather came to town for the weekend. We toured Rock City, watched the raptor show and sampled RC's Octoberfest brew. Last week our good friend Greg Loomis was in town and we were able to boulder at LRC and do a couple nice rides, one on Raccoon Mountain and one on some new trails on Lookout Mountain at a spot called 5-Points near Cloudland Canyon S.P. in GA. Last weekend the Laeser fam met up with Andrew and Sam Kornylak for a few days of climbing and camping at Sand Rock, AL. We had fantastic weather, camped at a neat spot nestled in the boulders and everyone had an awesome time. Below are some pics from the last couple weeks beginning in Dallas.
After passing my checkride I relaxed at the hotel pool
DFW Embraer 145
Everyone pose for the photos with the peppers!
Backyard harvest
Riding in the trailer is hard work
Ripin it up
Post BMX lunch, Layton's Fav
Heether, Beefy, Mommy and Poochy
Almost loopy at Rock City
Laeser fam and Heather June at Rock City
Map of the trails at 5-points
Loomy pumped up about the new trails at 5-points
Wolf spider, I think, seen during a nighttime boulder sesh at LRC last week
View from the tent at Sand Rock
Sunrise
Akorn shootin some pics of Sam at Sand Rock
Tire swing at Down on the Farm, a pumpkin patch in Rainsville, AL, (near Ft. Payne)
Boom!
Pumpkin envy
Getting sleepy on the way back from the pumpkin patch
