Life and Death

Joy and sorrow. The delicate balance of it all. It is all so necessary; desired and despised at the same time. Its observed in nature all the time, but when it hits us in our lives, it hits hard. Rest in peace, Grandpa, you were one of the strongest willed men that I knew. I'll miss you.

Backpackers Eat Children for Breakfast

I'm trying to get in one last backpacking trip before school starts. Looking at either Warren Lake in Desolation Wilderness or Lower Mill Creek in the Ishi Wilderness. Also, open to suggestions! trying to make it a 2-4 day trip for a small group, ideally near water and not too far (within a few hours driving) from Davis. Let me know if you know of any good ones!

By the way, this is a shot I took of the Upper Yosemite Falls from the hike earlier in the summer.

Eggheads

I was going to use a shot like this for the intro to my skate video before I came up with the whole falling out of a tree thing. I decided to tweak the composition a bit and use it as just a photo instead. Check out a bit of a background on Robert Arneson, the creator of these strange sculptures.

Home Made Cookins

Some roasted tomato garlic basil soup I made awhile back, with grilled bell peppers and some fancy fancy parmesan. I harvest all the vegetables from the garden, roasted and grilled them, and then just puréed them all in a blender. Man, this stuff was tasty. Simple food porn anyone? I think so.

An Eye For the Creative

I always keep an eye out for little bits of street art. They show up in the best places. Wuuuurms.

Arachnoids

Lovely little critters.

Rocks

yes, yes rocks. Where are they from?

I wish I had my shoes for this. After my road trip to areas of high elevation, I was constantly thinking of where I could climb and always looking for jugs, crimps, and knee-bars. I haven't climbed for, what now? 3 weeks? ridiculous.

Introducing: The Bombsquad Saltflat Throwback

And here is the newest addition to the quiver. I'm very proud to introduce the limited run Bombsquad Saltflat Throwback (i.e. wooden). I've been considering a top mount speed board for a long time now and finally decided to pull the trigger when I saw this one. I'm extremely glad that I did.

The board made of 9 plies of maple, is 37" long and 10.25" at its widest point (right about where your front foot would sit in a tuck). The width tapers down to about 9.5" right before the rear wheel cutouts. The double wheel wells are really well placed and look like they were made with a lot of thought and care. And just LOOK at that graphic. Now that is what I call rad.

Front concave shot is nice and not super aggressive which makes it really comfortable. The rear has a mellow W concave that is perfectly place to make your back foot stick where it should.

Gripped with 36 Gator where it counts and Mob elsewhere. I had so many extra left over Orangatang sticker that I finally decided to use one. Remember kids: Get rad, stay rad, go fast, and keep skating.

Skulls and the Past Life

Slowly, I build my natural history museum from where ever I can. It is not much so far, but it is growing. People sometimes think I'm strange. I just say I'm an aspiring wildlife biologist.

Grasshopper Get me Giddy

After two weeks in the wilderness, I am back! and my god it was AMAZING. I hope I can one day live on a Big Sur reserve. It was honestly one of the most beautiful places I have ever experienced.

On a photo note, I clicked my shutter over 1200 times in the past two weeks, so I have a bit of post processing to do. This means there might be a bit of backlogging before you see any stuff from my trip...I guess you'll just have to wait. Anyways, here are some photos I haven't posted yet. I have a lot of stuff to catch up on.

Grasshoppers are rad in all shapes and sizes.