Midwest Outdoor Leadership Conference

Last weekend, I was fortunate enough to attend the inaugural Midwest Outdoor Leadership Conference (MWOLC) at the Ohio State University. The conference itself was full of sleepless nights, interesting seminars, and a good representation of some like-minded interests. It is always reassuring to be gathered with a large amount of people that share similar passions as yourself, and to allow a perpetual excitement build as you spread new ideas between each other.

 Now of course we had to do some climbing along the way. With a little detour and a late night driving, we found ourselves waking at the Red River Gorge in Slane, Kentucky. We hopped on the refrigerated rock and did our thing. As proved by this weekend,  my climbing career consists mostly of falls and curse words (sailor mouth!), but I always have fun far off the ground and hanging on a rope. Adventures like this push your restart button and give you that get-up and go feeling; so start your engines, forfeit some sleep, and find some excitement in your life.