Finally...........I have arrived to add a chapter to the adventure Journal!
I have been around the world drinking far too much Silver Joe's Coffee(well thats not possible), enjoying my life and getting myself injured. My adventure is more like a 5 month ongoing adventure. After my ski season and rigorous travel schedule throughout Europe and then North America in the spring, I decided it was time to take a little me time. So I joined two of my teamates on Maui, where one of them now returns home to when she is done her long season in Europe. My other teamate who was staying wtih her boyfriend--a professional windsurfer (with a lot of toys, thats why i mention it more adventure opps), was who I stayed and trained with. I brought my road bike over so we could trek around Maui and get our aerobic basis back to start out our summer training! We had a blast! We did so many new things that were just amazing and the ocean is an unbelievable natural healer. Did some down wind stand up paddleboarding, windsurfing, camping, surfing, yoga, you name it we did it. It was unreal.....then I headed back home to Park City, UT and was planning my move to Jackson Hole, WY where I live now. I didn't realize how much stuff I actually owned, needless to say it took a lot longer than expected to pack it all up. I finally did it though, moved my stuff up and was ready to enjoy the amazing summer in Jackson. It was right after I moved, second weekend out camping and I decided to jump on a dirtbike for a little cruise. It was a 450yz and I shouldn't have been riding it. There was still snow up in the mountains, and the bike hit it, fishtailed, and fell towards my left kinee and my knee fell towards the bike, spraining my mcl and what I thought after six weeks of rehab for the mcl was a tear in my meniscus. I went for a scope two weeks ago and walked out of surgery no problems. They took some irritated tissue out of the joint and I am working on getting back on my mountain bike and 100% back to my adventures.
Although in the last six weeks I did enjoy two ski trips, more for the little kids I was coaching, but I did get to get out on some snow. I traveled to Mt. Hodd for a camp around the 4th of July and then Whistler....which is an amazing, amazing place, two weekis ago. I had so much fun with the little kids it really made me remember the days that hooked me to the sport for life. I had a moment in Whistler that I felt that child back in me just so happy to be on snow! Glad I could share with you and until the next adventure I gotta go drink some Espresso Roast!
Ciao for now,
Caitlin