Mission Cliffs Touchstone Bouldering Series 7 Images Now Hung.

Reason #326. In the series of “why I live in California.”

View from the Riverview Inn at breakfast on the 3rd morning of waking up here.  Two days of great climbing and photo’ing already. We warmed up on Winebottle crag on day one.  Moderate 5.9s and 5.10s and good rock.  Good tufa climbing on some massive drippy rocks that vibrate like gongs when you hit them just right.  (Slack 10b, 6a+) Moved over to the Egg on day two.  A bit of fun getting our scooters down a water buffalo trail on the approach.  We climbed (Eggstatic 11c, 6c+) a great 2nd pitch roof with reachy pulls under big blocks.  Great photographing on both days.   Golden Week kicking off now here with lots of firecrackers!

Boarding for PEK-HKG.  Thanks for the show.

Bernal Heights Fog With Sunset

Eleven years ago, give or take a day I moved to San Francisco.  A couple of years in Colorado and travels else where, it’s been my home since then.  One of the most amazing things most about this place is the fog.  Other places have clouds, or weather if you want, but I haven’t been anywhere else with fog like San Francisco.  In the summer when it comes in from the Pacific and crawls over Twin peaks it’s something different.  Almost alive, it pushes it’s way into the city through valleys and over the Golden Gate. I’ve always wanted to catch a photo of it doing it’s thing over the city just when the sun gets behind it and brings it to life.  Cassis dog and I hiked up here tonight with a pack of cameras and fought though the cold wind for 15 minutes to try and make photos.  We got at least one I like.

Damaged during the cultural revolution but back on its feet now, the Monks at Sera Monestary learn the old fashioned way.   Outside under the trees Monks lead each other in question and answer sessions with a lot of yelling and hand clapping one hand for correct answer another for wrong answer.  Amazing to see.  We leave Lhasa today for points west. 

A scrappy little photo.  But the only one I took of the street before realizing I was pointing the camera and things you shouldn’t point a camera at. 

The benefits of jetlag are few but there is at least one.  Getting to watch the sun come up more often then usual.   Publishing directly from the HTC Inspire through Photoshop Express for now.  The big NIKON images will have wait till we get this whole portable publishing experience worked out on tablets.   Perhaps Adobe should get on that Lightroom for tablets thing.