Cheer!

Santa Cruz

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

California Coastin

Santa Barbara

 
Delicious meal cooked by our hosts Asif and Maria.  Yum Yum!
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Joshua Tree Part Dos

See the rest of the JTree photos HERE.

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 

Visit with Sandy and Paul

Indian dinner cooked by Adam, yummy!

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.

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 

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. :)

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.

Way Rambo Part Deux

Thanksgiving!

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

 
 

Snowy views

Second Snow