Berkeley climbing, April 6

Natalie, Dylan, Cori and I went to brunch at Sunnyside Cafe in Albany, then went up into the hills to climb sharp rock at Cragmont, and boulder around at Indian Rock.

Post-work surfing, Apirl 2

Cori and I met at Linda Mar after work.  Unfortunately, the waves were horrible, but it was fun to paddle out.

Lassen Backcountry, March 23-24

Justin high on a ridge approaching the Bumpass Mountan summit.

Heading back to camp after making some turns on Bumpass.

A room with a nice view.

Our jury rigged way of attaching Justin's phone to the ceiling of the tent.

Ski Heil 

Santa Cruz, March 30-31

I had never camped and surfed before this weekend, and I can't wait to do it again.  Climbing is to Yosemite as Surfing is to Santa Cruz here in California, so it was nice to bring my shitty epoxy board out on some really nice waves.  I managed to catch some good waves on Saturday at The Hook, and even got a few on Cori's more aggressive 7'6" board.  Sunday wasn't as successful as a bigger swell and nice weather brought crowds to Pleasure Point.  Along with a nice clean swell came crowds of obnoxious teenagers, but they mostly stayed out of our way, except Cori got her board run over by a little punk.  I was bummed after leaving the water, but am excited to get back down there again.

"Surfing" at Linda Mar, March 17

Bad soupy waves!

Utah, March 7-10

I met a bunch of friends from the east coast in Utah for some skiing. First day, we went to Snowbird where the conditions weren't so good. It was icy, but we had fun and found some fresh snow here and there, but there wasn't much. Natalie's brother got in a hairy situation when he took his snowboard off high up on a ridge, and then fell, losing his board in the process, which careened down the slope at an impressive speed. I had to help out and hand him a ski pole to get back onto the ridge. We went to Canyons the second day, which was mediocre terrain-wise, and was very crowded. The third day we scored a bunch of powder at Solitude. I got in line very early and had the first run down one of their steep bowls. I really went all out that day, and it was great because there was a ton of terrain open that was closed when we were there. I flew solo for a while, and ended up in the scary "Terror Chutes" area, which a local told me was a bad place to go solo for the first time. He guided me out, and I avoided the hard cliffs/chutes, but had to do a mandatory drop of 5 or so feet. Not too bad considering. We played around after lunch dropping small things, which was a total blast.

Dancey Ski Party Time at Squaw, March 2-3

The conditions were soft, sunny and warm the first day, and we partied hard that night for SnowFest

4-5 inches fell overnight, and despite getting to the mountain in the afternoon, we were able to find some fresh tracks.