Hola from Boulder!

What's up everyone? Sounds like everyone's having an awesome time this summer, and it's been a lot of fun keeping up. Even after more than a month from gradumacation I honestly don't have a ton to add, but here goes:

After graduating, I headed home to visit with mi familia and see the newest addition to it, my niece Rylan. She's pretty freaking adorable, and all she does is eat and sleep. Not a bad life. Unfortunately I don't know how to upload pictures from my phone, otherwise I'd post a picture. Just imagine a human version of those lolcats pictures and you'd be pretty close. Swooooooooon.

So after a week at home, I met Lily in the Denver airport and headed back to Steveo's and Kiff's apartment, which is plush to say the least. I sleep on some nice couches, which rules, especially since this floor is air conditioned.By comparison, Kiff sleeps on a bed of crashpads on the third floor, which is approximately 7 million degrees. So that's pretty freaking awesome, and I definitely can't complain. Otherwise, I've been climbing a ton, all over the place. As Lily said, we checked out Rifle on our first weekend here. I don't have any pictures of climbing, but here's a clichéd campfire picture:

Fun stuff. Otherwise, we've been doing a lot of alpine bouldering to get away from the heat. A couple of weeks ago we checked out Rocky Mountain National Park, and Steveo tried hard on this thing Gobot, a badass V11 that's kinda hidden in a cave. Hopefully he'll crush soon.

Ugly, right? We've also been bouldering a lot in this place near Mt. Evans called Lincoln Lake... it's a new area that's just now being developed by all the strong dudes of climbing. And now for my name-dropping section. Since we've been here, we've climbed, hung out with, or seen people like Dave Graham, Daniel Woods, Kevin Jorgensen, Jon Cardwell, Jamie Emmerson, Emily Harrington, and Alex Puccio. It's absurd... like a climber's version of Hollywood.

Anyway, yeah - been climbing a lot. That aside, got a job at Movement, one of the four climbing gyms in town, and I usually spend most of my time alphabetizing waivers, entering them into a computer, and doing whatever chores my bosses tell me to. Good thing for that ivy league degree. Still on the lookout for the real job though, so we'll see how that goes.

So I guess that's it - I sleep on a couch, climb a bunch, work at a climbing gym, and spend my free time hanging out and trying to find a job. Did get to hang out with McCauley, Peter, Alice, Dom, Ellen, and Egan though, and this weekend I'm heading down to San Francisco to see Flynn and Whitney get hitched. Wo0t! Bunch of older alumni will be there too, so that'll be fun.

Anyway, looking forward to seeing everyone's updates! Hope you're all doing well.

Palmer