Planet Granite Friction Series

Planet Granite presented their first annual Friction Series roped comp tonight at their Belmont location. My co-worker Kate had a table set up representing our Palo Alto The North Face store. I grabbed my camera after a nice trail run in Foothills Park then headed up to help represent and snap some pics. I randomly ran into a fellow photographer buddy that used to live around the corner from my family. I've run into him in some truly random places.

My Latest Addiction

I tried crack today, and I liked it.

Image #21,000

Taken while doing headshots for Tim Hawkins's landscape design website.

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.

Bouldering At Castle Rock State Park

My buddy Ian was in town for his sister's wedding but we managed to get some bouldering in at Castle Rock State Park.

On The Rocks

After a beautiful drive along Calaveras Road, from both the Milpitas and Sunol ends of the road, and watching a towtruck pull a backwards and vertical Mazda Miata up the embankment, my friend Steven and I found Sunol Regional Park. We hiked a mile through beautiful green wooded hills blooming with all kinds of wildflowers to Indian Joe Caves. The caves were nice and made for some good shade...but that's not why we came here. We were just two guys out to climb on the rocks...and talk about relationships with girls that are on the rocks (and/or nonexistent). The caves are formed by a jumble of large basalt boulders which make for some short but fun 10-40 foot top-rope climbs. The basalt here is of the fine-grained variety, which means smooth, which means something new for someone, such as myself, who is used to climbing on granite and recently sandstone!


Steven catching some rays.


Me getting a leg up.

St. George, UT

Hanging out in St. George.

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