Mark...you're making me feel guilty! There you've been out braving the elements and climbing at night, in the name of science, while I've been down here in the warm sunny south enjoying myself!

This past weekend I facilitated a birthday party climb for a group of nine kids (top picture), then loaded up the gear and headed up to Virginia to facilitate a program climb on the Virginia Intermont College campus for about twenty students who showed up to give it a try (Pictures two and three).

The weather was warm and sunny and the climbs went well. The only issue, in Virginia, was that the trees that I would normally use had both been damaged by the recent storms and I found myself having to use a new tree that I did not have time to thoroughly clean before the climb. Not a problem!

Joe, facilitating a bunch of kids climbing does more to make the world a better place than getting some numbers out of a tree. Keep having fun!