I recently competed in the Pan American Youth Climbing Championships.  I grabbed a silver in ropes and bronze overall.  There were teams from Chile, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Venezuela, Columbia, Costa Rica and Mexico.  USA had an awesome team and we won overall.

So the day before the actual competition started we decided to calm our nerves and take a trip out to the world’s largest pool along the Chilean coastline. It was by far one of the coolest things I've ever seen, it is more than 1,000 yards long, covers 20 acres, has 115-ft deep end and holds 66 million gallons of water! It was off season so no one was really at the resort and we basically hustled our way into the pool convincing the managers to let us swim in the pool and have some fun. The most amazing...