Go mode - Logan

 Foreword:

It's been too long since my last post, but that doesn't mean I'm not thinking about you and writing this blog. :)


Since I last checked in there have been some interesting events at work besides the usual workflow, which has grown to me seeing a handful of my own residential projects among the grunt work.  Our office hosted the rest of the firm's offices here in Denver. It was fun to network and meet some LSU alums and the other interns.  However, about a week after this, my fellow Denver intern quit; I think he was homesick more than anything but this has been good for me as I'm now the intern that didn't quit (the semester + summer schedule helped make a better impression too). The broship will be missed but the rest of the office also bros down.  The workload projections seem to be calling for more hours so I might get into some overtime for a lil more gas money. 

As for my expeditions, I took a nice hike in the Rocky Mountain NP with my coworkers on our day off following our company weekend.  The next weekend I backpacked in snowshoes a little over 3 miles to the Greys and Torreys summer trailhead but did not complete a summit the next day. The next Friday I headed south for a trip to the Great Sand Dunes NP where I got a backcountry permit and backpacked in under a full moon. Saturday night I was camping in the Carson National Forest before waking up on Easter Sunday to enjoy some Mexican brunch in Taos, NM before trying to summit Wheeler Peak. Stoked on my momentum and the San Luis Valley I spent the next weekend at Mesa Verde NP having epiphanies about humanity. With only one park left it was an easy decision to go to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison this past weekend; it was national park day and the first day all the roads were open. That marks all 4 Colorado National Parks, I think the Mesa Verde is the best with the human connection overlayed on interesting geology, the Dunes and Gunnison are more of a what you see is what you get park and the RMNP has a lot to explore.  


 Only got pulled over twice

Imagine going to school in Fargo like these guys

Two Fourteeners

A beach in the mountains

The highest point in New Mexico (behind me) 
Not a bad life

Some are steeper, some are more narrow, but none are as steep and narrow



Taggin'

My page in the company yearbook








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