Quick update
Before I get started, we did in fact summit Quandary and it was amazing. A lot has happened since I was here last. I mean, a lot in addition to summitting my first 14er. In fact... wow. Okay, seriously it's been nuts. Let's just do a list: July: summitted Quandary in Colorado August: 2 week river cruise with my mom up the Rhine--Switzerland, France, Germany, and the Netherlands August, part 2: started climbing. September: interviewed for and landed an internship as a policy analyst with the Indiana Senate Democrats September, part 2: broke my ankle and almost re-broke my toe climbing October: became a CC--considering carnivore (the food lifestyle) See, there's a reason I haven't been around. Quandary was hard but not crazy. The last 1000ft were rough, both in terms of it being at the end of the summiting and because it was STEEEEEEEP. But truth, the descent is just awful. It's harder on your body, harder on your joints, you're already super tired from the asce