California Trip - 11/16 to 11/25/07

Here are the photos from our California trip...


Joshua tree stuff


Scary little catipillar that kept trying to "spike" us


More Joshua tree stuff


Cool rocks


Tarantula


Neat little red cactus (obviously)

Mel tearing it up

More of the same

Mel sorta tearing it up...

Mel, happy to be almost done tearing it up

Cool coyote that hung out with us in Yosemite

Looking up at the face of Half Dome

Somewhere in Tenaya Canyon

Somewhere else in Tenaya Canyon

Yep, that's me!

Yep, that's Mel

Check out this sweet action shot of Mel in Tenaya Canyon...

Sunset on top of Sentinel Dome

What's left of Ansel Adam's famed Jeffery Pine

Morning light on El Cap

Glacial awesomeness

More glacial awesomeness

The famed Cathedral Peak, from Cathedral lake

More of cathedral peak from a different lake

Me ninja throwing a huge piece of ice. It cut mel in half.

Cathedral peak spire

Da famed Matthes Crest

Sunset from Toulomne Meadows

Hanging at some travertine hot springs

Aspens on one of the mountain passes near Tahoe

Okay, I gotta admit... It's been going pretty slow lately. I've been lazy about putting up photos and reporting stuff. There was an aborted trip up the north face of Mt. Hood a few weeks ago... No summit, but a beatiful day, fun ice climbing, etc. Then there was also a hiking trip to the Jefferson wilderness, which, well, I guess Mel had a pretty good time, but the postholing sorta got on my nerves. I guess the biggest deal is that both Mel and I finally finished our "outdoor emergency care" class, which marks the end of 2 and a half months of driving to Eugene 4 days a week and learning about the infinite ways people can hurt themselves out there. That is thankfully freeing up both time and brain cells (the latter of which were promptly destroyed the next night). Anyway, in a couple of hours we are off to California for the holiday... Ideally the 18 hours of driving between here and Joshua Tree will help me decompress a bit. Hopefully there will be a few nice stories to tell when we get back. Happy thanksgiving to anyone who reads this!

Nate