Travels and Vagabonds
Hollywood Sky
After all the wedding festivities, were complete Alexis and I ran away to the south and down the 1 to experience SoCal. Our first stop was Santa Monica after driving thru Malibu and seeing multiple Bentleys, a dozen Lambos, Multiple Rarri’s, and too many Porsches. In Santa Monica, we checked out the pier and the shops.
Anacapa Island
Now back in Santa Barbara a couple days before the wedding, Steve and I had some tasks to perform while everyone else was getting stuff ready. The main goal was to return the Sprinter Van to Bandago, back down in Hollywood. In the morning, after a couple hours sleep on Jimmy and Lindsey’s floor, we pulled ourselves together enough to make some coffee.
Uranium Mines
For Jimmy’s Bachelor party, I flew into Denver a couple days early because my schedule allowed it. I was picked up by Mr. Paul Rizzo, who was gracious enough to sneak out of work and allowed me to crash at his house. Continue reading “Colorado to Santa Barbara via Moab”
The mummy
Early May, Alexis and I met up with Matt, Aaron, and Kyle at the table rock parking lot. Early Saturday Morning we made our way across the old burn area of the Table rock fire to the Amphitheater entrance.
Bouldering above Water
Luckily, I got to participate in the deepwater soloing contest at the US National Whitewater Center for Tuckfest. I didn’t find out until after a pretty stressful qualifying round the night before. Continue reading “Deep Water at the USNWC”
Stone Mountain
One of North Carolina famous granite domes is called Stone Mountain. Before the onslaught of springs pollen and greenery, we went for a hiking loop around the mountain saving the scary slab climbs for another day.’
Continue reading “Stone Mountain Hike”
Bishop
Within a matter of 3 days, I had found out about a trip to Bishop and committed to leave on a flight in 2. This was one of the more impromptu trips, I had ever gone on and was happy to tag along with David B.
Continue reading “Bishop Climbing Trip – 2014”
Rocky Face Recreational Park
Rumbling Bald was a place that we told me I have to visit while I am in NC. The cliffs are south facing so the time to climb there is in the winter, after the poison ivy dies, but before the place turns into a oven. Continue reading “Rumbling Bald and Rock Face Recreational Park”
Rocktober
The end October came around and it is the best time of year to get out and climb some rocks. I was able to coordinate my week of climbing to tag along with some friends from Colorado who also happened to be doing a climbing trip across America for the fall.
Continue reading “October 2013 Climbing Trip”
men
We were graced with the awesome pleasure of entertaining Barnoff and Jason for a weekend. The activities of the weekend would be whitewater center fun, plus beer.