My Heart Aches for an Outdoor Nature Experience

Yesterday we climbed.  And it was so awesome it hurt.  The mechanics of the day aren't that exciting, in fact it was a typical first-day-climbing-bad-lead-head-day.  This is okay because I got a taste of what it is that I am really yearning for:  Nature.

I will NEVER talk down education, and the act of learning is one of the most important acts we do as people, but I can not explain how happy I am to NOT be in a desk.  To finally be outside and in the sun and listening to the birds and feeling the rock on my hands is ecstacy!

However much I love climbing, it is not what I am looking forward to doing this summer.  What I am actually stoked about is Backpacking.  I haven't done it in ages and I just what to be out there doing my thing.

The pictures I am posting are the ones that really get my body tingly.  This is what I want to experience!  All are large enough to put as a desktop background.