Summer Blog Crawl

Today, I am participating in Brittany, from Gallery No. Eight's Summer Blog Crawl.

What is a blog crawl? Brittany explained it like this, "every day for the month of July is assigned to a different person. On their assigned day, each person posts about the assigned topic (summer!). They also link to the person that posted the day before them and the person that is posting the day after them."

So today, I wanted to share a few of my favorite summer memories.

I spent two summer's, during college, as a whitewater rafting guide in Fayetteville, WV. Those two summers were two of the most memorable summer's of my life.

Growing up in the mountains of WV I quickly grew to love the outdoors. I started mountain biking when I was 16 and that grew into a love of other outdoor activities such as whitewater rafting and hiking. Fayetteville, WV is a small town of about 2600 people, it is known worldwide for its incredible whitewater rafting, rock climbing and mountain biking and I was fortunate enough to take full advantage for two summers.

Budget Travel voted Fayetteville, WV one of the coolest small towns
in America in 2006

I spent my summers...

Camping everynight
(I only wish my tent was this nice)

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Rafting on the New River Everyday
(this was a video of my training buddies and me)

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Hiking in these INCREDIBLE mountains

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Honestly, in my opinion summer doesn't get much better than that... playing in the sun all day and meeting amazing new people. We guided boyscout troops, church groups, college kids, wedding parties down the river, it was a blast!

I'm very fortunate to have the opportunity to visit, my parent's moved back to Fayetteville (where they grew up) a couple of years ago. They bought back and restored the home my dad family grew up in.

Built in 1856

The famous New River Gorge Bridge
(one of the largest arch bridges in the world)

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Thank you Brittany for hosting this summer blog crawl and thank you for stopping by to read about my summer adventures in WV.

Stop by A la Mode tomorrow for day 11 of the blog crawl.

I'm also over at House of Hepworth's today while Allison is on a road trip.

Head over to check out of a few of my favorite DIY projects.