Fourth of July

Hope yours was a good one!

The Alpenrose Velodrome is STEEP!

Went and watched my buddy Mark Duff, owner of Veloforma Bicycles, out at the Alpenrose Velodrome. Other than being 95 degrees out yesterday it was pretty cool watching the racing.

All left turns:


Here's Mark:


And another one of Mister Duff just chillin' after the racing:

Live at Mississippi Studios

So my good friend Scott Gallegos played and recorded at Mississippi Studios last Wednesday and he was kind enough to ask me to shoot photos for him and the band.

I'm not able to post any of those yet because final selections and editing hasn't been done (I shot almost 800 photos for about 2 hours worth of total time). I do have some I took with my iPhone and app'ed with CameraBag. Super cool application that I have to give props to Chase Jarvis for bring to my attention. He is a much better photographer than me, so you should check him out.

So, the following three shots all came out of my iPhone without anyother manipulation. First up is the front man himself, Scott Gallegos:

The next is Robert PeArt on lead guitar:

And last, but not least are Brud Giles on drums and Jeff Koch on bass:


If you want to see my other iPhone photos, the gallery is here. I plan on adding photos to this gallery regularly.

The show was awesome and assuming the recording turned out well, there will be a live album coming out sometime in the near future.

Leavenworth May 2008 part 2

So after my lone scouting and cleaning trip to Leavenworth in early May, I went back. This time with a crew who was looking to climb on new stone.

So I did what I do best, brush holds and stay out of the way. These first two photos were taken by Kim.


Here is Jennifer showing much style and tenacity on the newly cleaned off Date Rock (about a tenth of a mile up Icicle from Tin Man.


And here's one of Josh on another new boulder, this one up on the 4th of July trail.


Here is one more photo. This is Kim on a V4 at the Egg Boulders.



The rest can be seen here.

I'm alive, but lame

It has been many moons since my last post and I'm sorry.  We launched our new intranet site for the department I work in and it took some wind out of my personal computing sails.

I have been out there doing stuff though.  Been exploring for new boulders out in the Columbia River Gorge (no luck - yet) and spent a week in Leavenworth, WA doing the same (much better luck).  

If you find yourself in Leavenworth and become overwhelmed by all the Bavarian vibe floating through that town or realize that the most of the German fare underperforms, then you have to go to South.  The food is Mexican/Central American and it is awesome (not your typical strip-mall Mexican food . . . mole sauces and fried plantains, etc).  They have live music on Wednesday and Fridays.

Hear are some photos for your viewing pleasure:

Old Boot - found when hiking a recent landslide area along the Wenatchee River, just west of Leavenworth, WA.

This is what I would pack-out everyday when I was exploring for boulders in Leavenworth.

I also stumbled upon this cool driftwood hut someone built on the Wenatchee.

Before cleaning the July Boulder.

July Boulder after cleaning.