Nature

I cannot mention this enough, I love the outdoors! Everything about nature is amazing, from the trees, the animals, the mountains, everything! I love it all!! There is nothing that makes me feel more alive! Every time that I feel overwhelmed in school or feel like I am being drowned in the oceans of stress I get outdoors and remember how amazing the world feels. I do love indulging myself behind my the screen of my computer while working on animations, but whenever I am not I am most likely outside. I will jog most nights of the week, and I try to make it on hikes every weekend. 

This last summer a friend and I tried hitting up a new mountain every single week. And funny enough I hiked Timpanogos for the first time! It's the highest mountain peak from around here. It was great, but I would have loved it more if I did not start the hike at 12, midnight. We hiked to the peak and all over the place and by the end we put in 14 hours of pure hiking! We made many more canyons over the summer, fall and winter as well. We even started collecting our own backpacking gear, and hopefully this next summer we will be able to get out on week long backpacking hikes! It is also our goal to invest ourselves in rock climbing gear. It has always been one of the goals of life for me to  get involved in. Then on top of that I just love taking weeks to go camping during the summer, and when winter comes around it is great to go skiing and snowboarding. Sure I will admit that I spend way too much time on computers and gaming. But if I had to choose between the two there is no doubt in my mind that I would close myself off to nature. Maybe I can even get out with hang gliding or bungee jumping for the first time this summer as well, we'll see ;)