The year in pictures... part 4

• October
  

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass... generally our favorite weekend in SF. Amazing music, friends... all for free at Golden Gate Park.


Finally, we hung out in town. Made a cornhole set (learned to sew!). Took Mingus to his favorite dog park.


Back up to Yosemite. This time with Messy to do some climbing. blog.


Did some bike rides... like a full moon ride up diablo (failed)... started doing some sunrise rides... (blog).. and a tandem ride.


Went up to Trinity Alps with the 7 Alpine Crew. blog.

• November
  

Went out to the Halloween Critical Mass (my camera was tweaking out at this point... spent too much time up in Mendo... so no pics.) Then saw Albino! at the Independent, and worked on Moses and I's boat. WWJV (Wild Willie's Joint adVenture)... blog 1, blog 2.


Stuck around... went kiting at OB.


Great cycling weather the following weekend... as Seth, Bradley, Khalid, his bro and I did a Centry ride around Mt. Hamilton... powered by donuts.


Then hung out at Alameda all day, playing beach volleyball.


B-day... Smitty's 30th in Russian River. Lot's of games, cornhole, nails, etc.


Then we had our annual post Thanxgiving Hut trip to Peter Grubb.

• December
  

Wedding in North Carolina. Melissa and Ted had a nice ceremony in the mtns.


Pretty much the other weekends... we've been packing & getting ready for our trip.

pic from yesterday...

the last backflip of the season... (Jan 4, 2009)

The year 2008 in pictures... part 2

I like the these pics too...the AP pics from 2008.

• April

April was a great month! Skied Kirkwood on Saturday (last day), then rode a century in the N. Bay on Sun on the first weekend.



Went up to Tomales Bay for an overnight kayaking trip.


Did some midweek paddles through cal canoe and kayak. They teach great classes (surf zone - highly recommended), but don't have the best customer service...


Back on the skis for the annual Pear Lake Hut extravaganza, a 5 star weekend...



Then to N.Lake for some climbing and music.

• May
  

Back to Tahoe for some more climbing... this time in S. Lake... also did some biking.


Kited at Crissy Field with Andrew.


Made my annual pilgrimage up Shasta during the full moon, came back to enjoy Bay to Breakers.


Rafted/Biked Downieville with an entourage.






Snake Dike with Bako.

• June

Hung around the city the first weekend...


RE-started TIMBER (Thursdays Intense Mtn. Bike Extreme Ride)


next weekend, took a Kayak Surfing class with Kim and Alex down by Mavericks.


Grouse lake backpacking trip the next weekend.


Climbed Mt. Watkin's with Nick