Saturday, December 25, 2010

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Santa Cruz

Hossein, Gord, Adam and Jess picking persimmons for Grandma Lee.



Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Santa Barbara



 
Delicious meal cooked by our hosts Asif and Maria.  Yum Yum!
Full Album Here 

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Joshua Tree Part Dos



See the rest of the JTree photos HERE.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Joshua Tree Part Uno

 
Met up with Ryan, Oliver and Danielle for some campfire and climbing fun.  Here is Oliver crushing on our first day. 

Laurel's got a nice perch. felt nice to get up there and take the shoeies off : )

Adam on Alf's Arete 5.11.  This was put up by our friend Alf, who we climbed with at Indian Creek. It was hard and a little scary, must have been even scarier on lead!

 
Me leading a route recommended by Laurel.  Eeeeep.. lots of fun actually 

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Visit with Sandy and Paul

Indian dinner cooked by Adam, yummy!



Thursday, December 2, 2010

Camera Kaput!




 
Last 3 photos taken with our camera, before it went bonkers on us.   Butler Wash was super awesome native american cliff caves we saw that day.  Mental photos were taken.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Goodbye Indian Creek

My first cam.

My first 5.10 trad lead... unnamed corner crack on cat wall.

Chris shooting photos of Vera on Johnny Cat.

 
last sunset 

Monday, November 29, 2010

Buckaroo Banzai Pt. II

Donut, ranch dog.

Alf, finishing the pitch after another brief snowstorm.

Carla had fun cleaning, and even got to pull a big block down unexpectedly!

Final photo before sunset.  We almost all made it. :)

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Buckaroo Banzai Part 1

Technicolor Wall. Buckaroo is the first crack right of the large corner/arete just left of center.  There is a large roof near the top, and a small (looking) flake near the bottom.

The start of the route is kinda dirty, but just above the large flake it's solid. We stood and pulled on the flake, but it didn't come loose.  It could use a good prying though.

The second pitch, a huge horizontal roof, is up for grabs.







The daily creek crossing.

Friday, November 26, 2010

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving feast cooked with our campmates.  Brian is cooking venison he caught in Montana.




 
 

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Tuesday, November 23, 2010