Archive for the 'Trips' Category
Squaw and Northstar
Latte’s been having some health problems recently so we decided not to take any far-away snowboarding trips this year. She gets really stressed out when we leave her for more than a couple of days, and in her current state, such a stressful situation might very well do her in. Now that she’s on steroids, [...]
China
Judy’s parents recently accompanied us on a 14-day trip through China. We started in Beijing and Tianjin where we visited the Great Wall (our second time), checked out several sites of the 2008 Olympics (including the sand volleyball area), and got a pedicure (my first one ever - hey, it was cheap so why not?) [...]
Hawaii Captions!
Well, now that I’m experiencing a bunch of downtime to heal my injured finger (I strained my A2 pulley on my right ring finger during our recent trip to Tahoe and then made it worse at Joe’s), one of the things I decided to do was add captions to all of Bob’s pics from our [...]
Joe’s Valley
This Memorial Day weekend, Judy and I flew to Utah and met up with Ryan for a fun four days of bouldering at Joe’s Valley. We were bracing ourselves for big crowds and hot temperatures, but neither was the case - the weather was pleasant and we ran into very few other climbers. We got [...]
Christmas Valley & Echo View
We just purchased the newly published Lake Tahoe Bouldering, Lake Tahoe’s first bouldering guide. Although not widely known for its bouldering (at least not yet), there are a huge number of problems in the Tahoe area. With Tahoe only a few hours drive from where we live, we intend to make good use of this [...]
Vietnam
Pics and vids from our trip to Vietnam. There’s no separate trip report; rather, I’ve tried incorporating the report into the captions for each pic and vid. It was a fantastic trip (here’s a PDF of our itinerary) and I was able to capture some pretty good pics and vids so take a peruse and [...]
Utah
This year, Judy and I decided to get a few more days of Utah boarding in by driving out and spending a week there. Unfortunately, this was probably one of the driest seasons in memory with unseasonably warm weather and a dearth of snow. With our lodging pre-paid, and with Dave and Patty having already [...]
Joe’s Valley and Moab
The last time Judy and went to Joe’s Valley, we weren’t able to spend enough time there. There’s so much good bouldering at Joe’s that several more trips there were easily justified. And the last two times we were in Moab, we didn’t get to ride the famous Porcupine Rim trail. A return trip to [...]
Grouse Slabs & Emigrant Trail
Judy and I headed up to Tahoe this weekend for some bouldering and mountain biking. Our plan was to boulder at the Grouse Slabs on Saturday and then ride the Emigrant Trail on Sunday. Unfortunately, we got kind of a late start to Tahoe on Saturday and then spent a bit too much time trying [...]
Tuolumne, Cloud’s Rest, Half Dome
I’ve been itching to go backpacking for some time now as it’s been nearly 3 years since my last trip. The last few years have just been really busy. While Judy had gone backpacking twice last year during her short hiatus from work, she nevertheless looked forward to this trip as well.
Brian helped suggest a [...]
Humboldt
Humboldt has been on our list of places to visit for some time, but for some reason we just never got around to going. From what we had read about Moonstone Beach (which is in Humboldt County), it just seemed like a really awesome place to boulder. After all, how many places can you boulder [...]
Santa Barbara
Ruben, Judy’s friend from college, and Kim tied the knot this weekend so we headed down to Santa Barbara for the wedding. The Ocean’s 11 guidebook, which Judy had bought for our previous trips to Pine Mountain, describes lots of good bouldering in the near vicinity so we decided to try to squeeze some climbing [...]
The Canyons
Judy and I decided to do a last minute trip to Utah for one last weekend of snowboarding for the season. Since we always go to Powder Mountain and Snowbasin, we decided to stay in Salt Lake City this time and try out some new resorts. The plan was to fly in Friday night, hit [...]
Powder Mountain and Snowbasin
This year’s Powder Mountain trip was planned a bit late, primarily because Judy and I have been so busy. Between moving to Palo Alto and both of us being swamped at work, we didn’t really even start thinking about the trip until mid-January or so. After a bit of schedule coordination with the group (President’s [...]
Annapurna Circuit, Nepal
Our itinerary was to fly from San Francisco to Hong Kong, from Hong Kong to Bangkok, and then finally from Bangkok to Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Judy was paranoid about the airlines losing our baggage and wanted to bring all our bags onto the plane as carry-ons. This didn’t quite work out because our [...]
