Summah Time!

Tagged along on one of mikes surfing missions.
I played Andy Goldsworthy, making sculptures
on the beach, while homie got gnarly.

The cherry and dogwood blooming outside the
window is my official start to summer.

Did the Dog Mountain hike with Mike and Alissa
again and saw some cool flowers.

After the hike we stumbled upon some pipes!
Mike and I took some rides before we headed
back to Portland.

On a weekend street mission James cracked a wheel
in half. I had never seen this happen before. He kept
Skating on it and it eventually broke off during a trick!

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Summer Squash Stew

These dudes rolled through town in usual form.
They went straight to Los Gorditos off the highway.
Van Uno tournament.

Kelly came into town (!) and we went to the river spot.
Almost everybody made it out to hang.
Definitely one of the radder days of the summer.

Mufukas think they Tarzan n shit.

Kelly was in rare form the whole trip.
Hilarious.

On the way to the river Benny called just in time
for me to make a u-turn and swoop him up.

"Say hello to my inflatable friend!"

A couple days later I went berry picking with
Benny and Anna. We each got more than we
could possibly eat. Awesome!

Pollinators!

Backapackaing

The first half of the summer I worked at
a nature camp right outside of town. As
far as summer jobs go there really could
not have been anything better. That said,
summer is for play! It really felt like the
beginning of this summer was the short
backpacking trip with Erin, Brian and Alissa.

We went to Badger Creek area which is
out in the Gorge. We made "base camp" along
a strong creek for the weekend and hiked
a total of twenty four miles.

Remnants of the areas logging past. Laaame...

Squirrels gathering sticks.

Waking up in the woods rules.

Pumping water

At first we thought the camp site we ended
up with was not all that hot, but by morning
it was proving to be super awesome.

Pre-hike yoga-ing

There were tons of downed trees that made
for fun balance beaming.

Group shots! Gotta savor those awesome times.

Silver Falls

Back in May Alissa and I went down to Silver Falls
for the day and hiked the trail of ten falls.

I was psyched on this picture because the creek
is actually making an over 90 degree turn.

Definitely used the fisheye lens too much on
this trip, but that's what new toys are for...

Nice scenery.

Nicer scenery.

The fall above was really cool up close. Not
a great photo, but it gives some perspective.

Awesome sitting spot under an overhang
behind one of the falls. Below is the view.

The hike back is really mellow along the top of
the canyon with views of some of the falls.

At the last fall there was a couple displaying
some intense P.D.A in the mist and some
rad sun coming in through the trees.

Been A While

I've been slacking on putting stuff up here, but
now there's five months of photos to share.
Awesome. Lets do this.

Been rolling down to the park a bunch, mostly
mellow cruising, but having a lot of fun.

Got a new camera toy. Mike fresh mugging for
a new fisheye (held up to a point and shoot.)

Backsmith into the corner.

Frontside.

Pillage.

Gonna post more stuff soon, check back.