Chris Sharma on Dreamcatcher

Hope you enjoy this video of Chris Sharma climbing Dreamcatcher (5.14d) as much as I did. I suck at climbing, but I sure like watching good climbers. When you watch this you'll be amazed at how he holds on.

Cycling Roots

When I was a kid I loved to ride my bike. Not long before my 16th birthday I took all the money I had and bought a Specialized Rock Hopper mountain bike. I think I spent around 700 bucks. A friend of my gave me the hardest time for that because he had just bought a Honda Civic for $1300. He thought I was crazy to choose a bike over a car. But hey, what did I need a car for when all my friends had one? Anyway, I spent a lot of time working off my frustrations on the seat of that Rock Hopper.

Recently, I've reconnected with a good friend with whom I grew up via Facebook. He posted several pictures that included me. I figured I would share a few that were taken during a trip we took as Varsity Scouts. We spent 1 week riding just over 170 miles in southern Utah.

This is a photo of the group the day we left for the trip. That's me laying on the ground in the pink tank top. Man, we loved the florescent colors.

If I recall, this was taken on the hardest day of the trip. We rode from the East entrance of Zions NP to Navajo Lake. I'm in the middle with the black helmet.

Our last day. We rode from Navajo Lake to Brianhead. This was taken at the Cedar Breaks overlook. Again, I'm in the middle with the black helmet and red shirt.

Frozen

Well, yes, it's still freezing in Utah, but I can see the days getting longer and I know Spring is just around the corner. But this post has nothing to do with the weather. Today on a blog I frequent, Wend, I saw these YouTube videos. They were just bizarre enough to be cool, in an artistic kind of way. I think it is fun to see public reaction to things that are out of the ordinary.

While in high school some friends and I would line up along both sides of a hall during our lunch break. We would space ourselves evenly and across the hall from each other. We would get 20 or so people to line up. We would then just stand silent and still. It was great to see people turn the corner to walk down the hall. They would look at us and wonder what was going on. Most would just turn around and walk the other direction, but some tough-guys would just call us names and walk through, with no reaction from us. It was sophomoric, but interesting to see how people reacted.

Watching the reactions of the people not knowing what was going on is what makes these videos fun. Figured I would share.

Road Trip day 2

After spending the morning in the valley of fire (posted yesterday) we took off to the Hoover Dam. The traffic to get down to the dam was horrible. We were in a 4-mile line. It took us just under an hour to get there from the line; 2 hours from Overton.



After the dam, we caught a sunset in Vegas (picture below) and then went downtown. We walked around for a while, hit a few of the shops, caught the fountain at the Bellagio, and came back to base camp in Overton. It was a long day.

Road Trip

Got up early this morning to catch the sunrise at the Valley of Fire.





Afterward, we went to Mouses Tanks and played around with the camera. I'm helping my bro. get a deeper understanding of his camera. Here are a couple of shots he took in a lesson on how to stop action.

My Next Pet

When I was a kid I had a couple of fresh-water fish tanks. I loved the sitting by myself at night with the only the tank light on being calmed by watching the fish. I saw this tank on ohgizmo.com and now I think I need one. Well, after I get my sailboat.