Wakeboarding

A nice leisurely Saturday at New Hogan Lake was had by all...all four of us: Glen, Erin, Suzanne and I. Everyone else we had invited flaked out and apparently the high gas prices this summer are discouraging the masses from taking their boats out on the water. Which was all fine and dandy by us. We each had more time to be pulled behind the boat and fewer boats on the lake to compete with for the smooth stuff!


Glen gets his feet wet.


Suzanne takes the plunge as Erin lifeguards.

SCS Youth National Championships

USA Climbing's 2008 SCS Youth National Championships were held at Planet Granite in Sunnyvale. Seeing as The North Face is a big sponsor, we set up a booth and gave out free water bottles and snacks to the kids. It was fun to meet the kids and their parents from all across the country.

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Eagle Peak & Aquarian Valley

Having just finished up graduate business school at Stanford, Dave had free time on his hands. I happened to have the day off work. So we decided to to traipse around skyline and look for rocks to play on.

4th Of July Adventure!

Eight of us and gear loaded up in two trusty Hondas to head up to Big Basin State Park for a weekend backpacking adventure. Only one Honda made it to the top of Highway 9. Four of us spied a large group of more than 30 kids and a few adults starting down the skyline to the sea trail. We contemplated whether we would beat them to Big Basin or not as we headed back to rescue the other Honda, broken down just two turns shy of the summit, pulled off the main road on a private driveway. A private driveway that happened to belong to a very friendly and generous middle-eastern man in the most luxurious and extravagant Mercedes-Benz I have have ever seen. Part of me wanted to accept his offer for help just to have the chance to ride in his leather seated, exotic wood dash, V8 kompressor, big burgundy Benz! But alas we decided to limp the sick Honda back down the hill to Saratoga. Several hours later, after shuttling a replacement Honda from Palo Alto, we all made it to Big Basin. Soon after starting down the trail we passed the kids we saw earlier, already returning from Berry Creek Falls.


cool down after 11 miles


hotties with camp towels