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| heading up to Hyalite Peak |
You might have read my blog and thought: "does that woman ever go to work?" Unfortunately, I suspect some of my co-workers ask themselves the same question and that is not really a good thing. I was recently told, enthusiastically, by an employee that he admired me in particular because I, more than anyone, "work to live" rather than live to work. The truth is that I am very work-oriented and don't find such comments to be compliments. It's tells me that maybe I've been having a wee bit too much fun. Or maybe just too visibly. In any case my focus for the rest of the year is work.
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| the peak from the saddle pictured above |
Does that mean I can't have adventures? OF COURSE NOT. I had already blocked out the weekend for my annual hiking adventure with Grizzly Glacier Running Club friends, but with Deb breaking her ankle and everyone being insanely busy, the hike dissipated. Allison was on her way home from Billings to Helena and I was in Bozeman for work, so after she refused to let me flake out and bail on the whole thing, we met up in Bozeman and hiked and camped and were merry.
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| Allison surveys the smoke |
The initial plan was to do the Devil's Backbone course, which is an amazing 50 miler in the Gallatin Range. I envisioned us doing half of it but we didn't have the vehicle support to shuttle or anything. Plus, we had dinner with a dear client turned friend Friday night that continued on with olympic watching at the bar, so we got a somewhat late start in any case. Thus, we started at the Hyalite Creek trailhead late morning with the goal of hiking about 20 miles.
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| heading out on the Devil's Backbone |
We hiked up Hyalite Peak, the out a bit along the Devil's Backbone course before we began fixating on dinner and beer, which prompted a half-mile-early turn around. We got in 19 miles of relaxed hiking and gorged on sushi before returning to the Hyalite Canyon to camp. So to summarize, when you travel for work you can make it into a mini-vacation that makes you forget about the working part. And hanging out with your client friends looks a lot like marketing. There you go.
4 comments:
That should be your advertising hook: Take the client out on a hike to discuss their case! :) Makes everybody happy and you can write it off on your taxes as a business expense!
I work for unknown to me reason, mainly because I have to provide for a couple of offspring's I managed to produce. And because I also managed to move to a place where adventure simply does not match any normal meaning of the word, it's became sparse. So, common, Danni, post pictures so I can stare at them while pretending to work!
Work can be its own adventure. Man, the stories I could have told if only I could have blogged about my life at the Juneau Empire (which, for obvious reasons, I refrained from, just as you do with your work.) If only I could have a quality of life I wanted and a newspaper job. I don't regret choosing to leave that industry, and I do find fulfillment in the projects I work on now, but there's always compromise. You seem to have found a great balance in work and in life.
I'll be sad if I don't see you at al this winter. I guess I'll have to find a way to come visit Montana.
I can't help but think I'll just do Su again. At a minimum I will visit you for a long weekend I promise.
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