Trail Wanderlust
So my youngest son, Jake has been accepted to Humbolt State University to finish off his degree in Forestry and Wildland Fire Management. We decide to take the travel trailer up there for a week to get the lay of the land and find him a place to live out in town. First stop along … Continue reading “Norcal Roadtrip”
So I know some people who know some people who ……. That is typically the start of a really good bit of story telling. It ranks right up there with “This is a No-Shitter”. Of course any story that starts off with either one of those opening lines is to be treated as suspect and … Continue reading “NorCal Peep Tour of the SART”
I finally got around to remastering this video from playtime in Downieville. Got through this footage, I am very thankful for the modern era of tiny GoPro cameras and gimbals. I did some stabilization work on some of the clips, but it is a balancing act between cropping and smoothing out the video. Crop too … Continue reading “Downieville 2007 – Remastered”
Last week on my way up to Mammoth Mountain for some chairlift-assisted mountain biking I met up with Dave and Michael for a run down the Lower Rock Creek trail on my way into town. We met up at the lower trailhead and then made our way to the top for some great riding back down the … Continue reading “Lower Rock Creek Trail – Fire Damage”
Man, the things we do for our kids. I got up at around 7AM and loaded up all my gear in the truck while Will was still sound asleep in the tent. All of Will’s biking gear had been staged in the tent last night. I drove down to the bottom of the mountain at … Continue reading “Bill and Will Roadtrip Day 3 – Mount Pinos”
Okay in keeping with my current trend of taking nearly half a year to get a video out here is the video of the “Hole In The Ground” trail near Truckee in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Northern California. The music might be a little cheeseball but I dig both the tune and the lyrics and it … Continue reading “Hole In The Ground – Truckee CA”
So I am on the walking wounded list, but not from mountain biking. For those who have been following the blog you will remember I took a good thump while getting some flight lessons near Alpine about a month ago. Part of the thump was on my right hip that resulted in a huge technicolor bruise on my right leg and … Continue reading “Walking Wounded”
So I finally got around to putting together the video from the Soquel Demonstration Forest near Santa Cruz that I got to enjoy on my Norcal Summer Roadtrip this year. The lighting was quite harsh on the day of this ride so a good bit of this footage not ideal. I almost decided not to … Continue reading “Soquel Demonstration Forest Video”
