It´s been so crazy here, the wind last night was 60mph with gusts much
stronger than that, and also it was raining... it was raining in giant
waves coming horizontally from the northwest. After spending most of
the day reading and talking to people and drinking mate in this
covered shelter at the campsite, I finally decided I had to go do
something and went to a bar. The wind carried me on the way there and
literally sometimes I would lift a foot and feel like I was being
lifted from the ground. The way back was super difficult because I
had to push against the wind and water. It really felt like walking
through the ocean, with waves pushing me back every few minutes.
Nevada gets really strong wind too, but usually I´m indoors for it,
and there´s usually no rain.

I think I´m in love with my tent. While other tents swayed and
snapped with the trees, mine stayed still with the rocks. So many
people woke up in the middle of the night with their tents flooded. I
was lucky, mine wasnt even damp. I´ve been learning a lot about the
proper placement of guy-lines. And I even set up a little clothesline
in the tent vestibule to dry my rain jacket and pants. It all felt
very cozy and homey... all that was missing was someone to tell me
scary stories :-)

I had trouble sleeping at first because of the noise from the wind and
rain, but then I listened to music until my battery ran out. As I was
falling asleep, I dreamed up choreography for an aerial act to
Aranita (my latest song obssession, by the talented musician Alfredo Giménez). And then guess what!! Today, someone told me that there´s
an aerial fabric in one of the local bars! I went to check it out,
but the bar was closed. Hopefully tonight though...

Also, I finally met the climbing community here!! I met some climbers
at the bar last night and they invited me to have breakfast with them
at their campsite. It turns out there´s another campground where most
of the climbers are staying, and they also have a building to hang out
in at their campground. I hung out with them all day today, listening
to their climbing stories (they´re alpine climbers.... so they climb
big mountains, not just little sport routes). The weather is supposed
to start getting good tomorrow and be nice for a few days, so a bunch
of them are going to various mountains. You know, no big deal,
they´re just gonna climb Fitz Roy or Cerro Torre.... (that was
sarcasm, because that IS a pretty big deal). I really hope some day
I´ll be that good.

It´s been raining all day and I am totally antsy. Yesterday I didnt
get to go bouldering afterall because of wind and rain.

I think tomorrow I´ll head out on a small backpacking trip. It´ll be
2 or 3 days probably. It´s a well-traveled, well-marked trail, so it
should be fairly easy. There´s also a bunch of little ¨sidetrips¨
that branch off from it, so I´m going to try to extend it as much as I
can.