sorry for the suspenseful pause in blogging! we've been very busy exploring california...
our big backpacking adventure on the high sierra trail up to the summit of mt. whitney was a blast! words and pictures cannot fully describe the feeling of the trip, but some pictures are presented here for your enjoyment.
note: this slideshow has nearly 200 pictures in it, so be patient, or go to my picasa site to look through them at your own pace. (also, i did not upload them at any good resolution, so i will still send a cd to whoever wants one or show you pictures in person - i took about 500 pics!!)
after we finished our hiking and parted with the guys, we drove up to yosemite and bouldered for a day. it was beautiful, but overcrowded. this began our poor luck for finding camp sites - every one of them in california has been full for about a week now, but we manage wonderfully (thanks to rest areas).
then, we headed to castle rock (just south of san francisco) for some of our favorite bouldering yet. the whole place just gave us a great feeling. the rock was perfect, like (at least in as far as I can tell from pictures) a miniature fontainbleau. the routes were fun, and the forest around it was really magical, too!
by this point (well, much sooner) we had some serious bread cravings, so we finally made our way into san francisco in search of some good sourdough bread. however, we found more than bread in san fran: amazing breakfast, hippies, hipsters, amazing bikers, delicious fresh fruit, beautiful city sights...
after the city, we were psyched for some more climbing, so we drove northward on highway 1 to salt point for some beaches and bouldering
we continued driving along highway 1 (which was so winding and beautiful that jud almost tossed up his pancake breakfast out of sheer awe)
and arrived at moonstone beach (which is near arcata, ca), where we are now. there is beautiful beach climbing, redwood forests, and an awesome college town here (where by some cosmological anomaly - wormhole, tear in the space-time continuum, etc - ninety percent of the worlds hippies have somehow been teleported, explaining the perceived decline in that movement elsewhere) !
hope all is well back at home!
we send lots of love!
jud and gen
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oh my goodness! I just checked this two hours ago and said "goddamn it! She better post again soon!" And you did! Thanks for listening.
ReplyDeleteI'm psyched you saw Lukens Lake!! I wanted to take a picture of that for you and Nancy when I saw it! Did you go through Bishop?? Your trip is so awesome! I'm so jealous! Even though I love it here, I wish I were with you guys too! Keep posting! I love your pictures. And I love you.