Are You Living It?

Of visiting Yosemite and doing some climbing….

Taken in 2005 on a 10 day vacation to heaven on Earth….

Yosemite Falls going off in late spring… it beckons.

Just a couple quick picks from a ride in the Tennessee Valley Road area in the Marin Headlands:

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View down to Muir Beach.

View to southwest.

Breather after the climb up the Coastal Trail to Coyote Ridge.

Nice little mtb ride in China Camp State Park today.  It’s about a 45 minute drive up 101 from where I live in San Fran…  several miles past the Marin Headlands, just northeast of San Rafael:

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Thirteen miles of very easy singletrack, a little too easy actually (finally feeling better after a week of thinking I was getting sick, and really wanted to sweat it all out), but it was a phenomenal day with relatively little traffic on the trails so I have no complaints.

On Saturday Ryan, Seth and I headed out for a ride up Starvation Mountain off Highway 20 in the Methow. For those not familiar with the area it is home to some of the most amazing cross-country riding and the valley is a thing to behold on its own.

We were camping on our property near Winthrop and Saturday morning we loaded up in the Red TDI and headed up to the trail just outside of Twisp.  Ryan was driving and keeping us entertained.  As has been mentioned before Ryan keeps himself fit (that is an understatement).  So Seth and I were a bit nervous as to what might be in store for us….

Looks like I missed a couple posts over the last couple weeks. So, to make it up to you guys, here is something on Jeremy McGhee. Jeremy was in a very bad motorbike accident in his early 20’s and has been in a wheelchair since. This was of course a big change in his life but he chose to still live the dream instead of letting himself down.

Miles Daisher and myself jumped off the Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls, ID with a new type of camera. It is a 2360 camera developed by Immersive Media in Portland, OR that shoots every angle around you when you wear it. You can really see everything! Check out the footage if you have a minute. Good times! If you click on the immersive media link, you can switch to every view just by using your computer mouse.
KATU TV: http://www.katu.com/home/video/26369334.html?video=YHI&t=a
Immersive Media: http://demos.immersivemedia.com/index.php?clip=BJ

This is just a quick photo/video mashup from animoto that I created as I finally got my pictures off my blackberry.  These are all from a “new” hiking trail above the Northshore of Lake Whatcom and a quick Mt. Bike ride up Chuckanut Ridge (sorry no Galbraith photos this time).  It is short, enjoy:

Check out the announcement April made on her home blog today.

Very cool!!

This week it is Shane McConkey’s turn to be on Areyoulivingit.com and this guy is for sure living it! While traveling through Norway, he got to “work” on a new project. He calls it Canyon Flying. Pretty sick!
The video speaks for itself, so check it out…

All right, it is already time for the second post of the week. Here is the trailer of the new documentary produced by ABC reporters Dan Barth and Chase Ogden. It is called “That Beautiful Moment” and is based on the human story and adventure of the Engineer Mountain ski BASE jump which was a 4 year project. Stay posted for the movie release sometime in Spring 2009!