Jessica and I just completed a wonderful 8 day retreat at Diamond Mountain, during which we were camped at our retreat site (in a beautiful spot amazingly prepared by Grant Burns in the shade of a Juniper tree). Though the retreat itself was arduous, being out in the dusty, hot, cold..., it was a wonderful experience to be able to spend each night at the site where we will do a three year retreat. While the days were silent and filled with hiking up and down the main road at Diamond Mountain, the nights were always very comfy and nest like at our site. Jessica and I got a wonderful sense of how this place could easily be our home for three years, and then perhaps for other, shorter, retreats in the future.

