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Middle Fork of the Salmon River 09

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:44:08 +0000

A school trip down the Middle Fork of the Salmon River from Idaho to Montana. This amazing river started out at Marsh Creek with about 3 feet of snow beside us and maybe 15 cfs of water flow. By the end of the trip when we passed the confluence of the Main Salmon River it was raging at around 10 000 CFS and rising quickly every day.

I’m trying a new photo script on the site, so click on the thumbnail and the whole series should appear. From there you can click on all the photos to get a larger view.

The photo script is called Shashin and is available for free at Shashin

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Adventure Sports Video

admin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:51:18 +0000

A short movie I made for my computers class. It’s mostly pictures from trips I’ve done in School including some moutaineering, white water kayaking, surfing, hiking and camping.

Vegas Baby

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:33:00 +0000

We decided Vegas could quite possibly be the funnest place on earth. Kinda like a huge amusement park for big kids. This video is of us on the freeway, super excited to get to Vegas after driving for about 7 hours that day. I also let out a sweet burp right at the end of this video and it’s worth watching just for that.

This pic is taken from the Walkway over the strip from MGM Grand to New York, New York.

Besides the gambling, shows and walking up and down the strip there’s all these amazing tourist traps, such as the M and M museum.

I love this picture, Sandi hates yellow….

We were hesitant to gamble with our hard earned money so we decided to get a head start, we signed up for a time share sales pitch in the new Planet Hollywood, which isn’t built yet, and for our time they gave us show tickets, buffet tickets and gambling money. So we had to play our $40 free slot ticket and ended up winning $90 on this star wars game at Planet Hollywood then another $10 on the machine right next to it, then later that night at Slots of Fun casino I won another $40 playing star wars. The force was with me.

We went to see a burlesque show at the Flamingo, twas quite the sight.

After having all our senses attacked while in Vegas we were craving a little simple life, so we camped outside Vegas in the desert, this is Red Rock Canyon.

Brookings – San Fran

admin — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:08:00 +0000

Brookings is on the edge of Oregon and California so we got up early and headed south. We tried to make good time but Sandi couldn’t get enough of these pirates.

This was our campsite in Sonoma, CA. It’s underneath a big nut tree so all kinds of stuff was falling on us all night.

This grape vine was on a tour of Ravenswood Vineyard.

Sandi tasting some wine straight out of the barrels, the little glass tool he used was called a “thief”

These were all the barrels we sampled from, there’s thousands of these in the room we were in.

Just outside of Ravenswood, I’ll be sending this one away as my demo model shots.

Sandi’s model shot outside the infamous Cline winery with their Red Truck.

After touring vineyards and living the high life in wine country we took off towards San Francisco.

This picture was taken in the bay area of Alcatraz, we were hoping to get on a boat tour but unfortunately ran out of time and started driving to Vegas.

Newport – Florence

admin — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:36:00 +0000

So here’s our second blog post. We’ve been loving our drive down the coast so far. Oregon is beautiful, it would be a great trip on the bike. But the Dusty Rose is doing the 101 justice. Every time you turn around a corner there’s another stunning view. These are some pics from Newport to Florence.

Here’s Sandi looking hot

The Dusty Rose in all her glory

Agate Beach, best lunch spot ever.

Lola and Jazz, two French Bulldogs. Their owners took the picture. Meanwhile the doggies attacked.

Rogue brewery in Newport, actually not that exciting. Ripleys believe it or not was closed so we had to do something else, yummy beer but stinky brewery.

I can’t blame her for cheating on me with a hot pirate, I would done the same thing.

The beginning.

admin — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:56:00 +0000

So, the trip finally has begun. So far we’ve visited Seattle, Portland and right now we’re in Lincoln City and loving life. There’s no Taxes in Oregon, cases of beer are $7.99, although we can drink a whole case and not get drunk. Bottles of wine are all under $10, including Ravens wood and Chateau St Michelle. James has to pull me out of the grocery store, it’s not fair! I’m not sure why but we’ve both adopted yokel accents, so we’re just waiting to get beat up by some genuine yokels… which there are lots of. Lotta big trucks and too many country stations, Sandi feels right at home.

First night in the States after the worst border crossing ever. Anyone know what a Domicile is?? Cause apparently you need one to get into the states now.

This is Pike Place market, the coolest market I’ve ever been to in the heart of Seattle.

I’m not sure why this pig is such a big deal but it is, so I got a picture with it.

The market is full of these seafood stalls. Everyone’s yelling at you to buy their fish. Lot’s of mongers.

This was our campsite in between Seattle and Portland, just outside of Vancouver, Washington.

Yummy, breakfast of champions, outta the back of the truck. Lincoln City, Oregon

Sandi got a Homie hat at a store in Portland called “Lids” and this cardboard came in it… just so happens it looks like yokel teeth. We’re waiting in the parking lot of the outlet mall in Lincoln city for it to open. No Taxes on anything!