May 3rd, 2005
Paul and I (and Morgan!) decided to head up to Bishop, California for a 4-day weekend of bouldering.
Here are a bunch of photos documenting the journey
We left after work on Thursday evening and blasted up to Mt. Charleston outside of Vegas to camp at the brrrrr elevation of 7500 feet. Silly us decided to leave our sleeping bags at home – anticipating warm Bishop weather – and just slept with a comforter. Whoops. Brrrrrrrrrr.
On the way to Bishop the following morning, we decided to side-trip it to Death Valley, since I had never been. Giving up a 1/2 day bouldering for a hot dusty tour of the lowest point in the US sounded appetizing given that we had each downed about 10 cups of coffee the night before and froze our butts off in the tent. Ahhh, hot desert ahhh.
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April 21st, 2005
Last Sunday Vince, Tammy, Paul and I decided to warm up on the front side of North Mountain. There is a huge collection of V0s, V1s and a couple V2s near Mushroom Roof. After we ticked off nearly 10 problems we tried something a little more tricky. Here is some footage taken by Paul of Tammy and I, from the top of a really fun problem…
April 20th, 2005
Tonight we had a small woody session at our place. Myself, Paul, Tammy and Vince. It was a good and fun night, although the energy was a little low – perhaps thanks to either the beer, or the detailed poop conversation…complements of Vince.
Here are a couple pics of us pulling down on the woody.
For those non-climbers:
Woody = Homemade climbing wall. Typically built out of plywood and 2x4s…hence the name “woody.”
April 19th, 2005
It felt so nice to go back to Hueco again. It was also nice to climb with Vince and Tammy again. April and I had been spending our weekends doing so many other things for over a month but we managed to clear our busy schedule and go back to our favorite bouldering destination. We geared our minds to believe that the weekend was devoted to doing a lot of new problems. It was a good idea because we couldn’t tell how out of shape we had become. We spent 3 days bouldering and the park was basically all ours.
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April 12th, 2005
Arizona is the best!
Last weekend was part 2 of April’s parents’ Arizona visit. Paul, Vicki, April and I all traveled to Sedona for some beautiful sightseeing. We spent Friday touring the town and then headed up to Flagstaff for two days of skiing at Snowbowl. We didn’t expect much. In fact, it is very hard to imagine how good skiing could be in April. But, to our surprise, it snowed Saturday and we managed to ride in what we considered the best conditions we’ve ever experienced.
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April 5th, 2005
I’ve been putting photos on the site by following a very tedious methodology.
1. Get pictures off camera
2. Save them to a folder on my local computer
3. Edit their sizes in Paint
4. Save a “big” size and “small” size
5. Upload the two picture sizes
6. Reference the pics when creating a new entry
Now, thanks to my friend Matt, we’ve implemented “flickr.” CHECK IT OUT! Posting pictures is going to be really fun and organized now.
April 1st, 2005
The guys just finished the hole. The tree should be coming within the next hour…
Before:
After:
A big thanks goes out to Civano Nursery for their awesome service! They really knew what they were doing and they got the tree in with no problems. Here are a few pictures of the excitement…
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