Castle Rock Bouldering - Asian Invasion V7

Asian Invasion route was featured in Mike's video. The short route has a manteling crux from slopers.

Kevin Smith and Zach, 2 strong climbers from Santa Cruz, joined me during this early morning session.

Zach climbed the high ball arete which looks like a shark. Checked him being swallowed by the shark.

Castle Rock - Klinghoffer Boulders

The Santa Cruz climbing crew (Brian Wilkerson, Riddle, Adam Alsabery and myself) got together for a fun afternoon of bouldering at Castle Rock.

We warmed at Nature Nazi on "The Naked Arete" and "Teaches O Beaches" and quickly moved to the Klinghoffer boulders. We climbed some juggy overhanging arete, the classic V5 traverse and ran laps on the classic of the classic "Right Hand Man".

Santa Cruz's Steamer Lane O'Neill Cold Water Classic

The last day of the O'Neill Cold Water Classic started with the first quarter final.

Santa Cruz West Cliff Surfing

Santa Cruz received a huge swell on Saturday November 07. Those pictures were taken just a block where we live on West Cliff.

This dude got inside the sickest barrel of the day and managed to get out, amazing.

Big Sur Bouldering - Partington Cove

Partington Cove can be found about 2 hours drive south from Santa Cruz. It is also called "little Yosemite" because the granite quality almost match the one from Camp 4.

The timing could not be better since Castle Rock is still too warm, buggy and crowded.

Brian Wilkerson, Rob Morris and myself climbed some of the moderate climbs, some being as tall as 15 feet. Make sure that you bring a bunch of pads when you visit that area.

The French Connection - Castle Rock Bouldering 2009

Cyril, Thibaut and I share the same experience climbing at Fontainbleau.
Thibaut, who has been visiting Cyril for a couple of weeks, wanted to check some of the Castle Rock bouldering classic.
They warmed up on the Slope and the Slap and quickly sent Hueco Wall with very original beta.
They tried Ecoterrorist but without success, the condition being less than perfect...
We finished up with Duct Tape, which I clearly remember, is quite hard for shorter people.

Jay, Wyatt and Sam Scootering at Bike Park - Santa Cruz

Jay Magee, Wyatt Howe and Sam Aronie are having a good time at the Bicycle Trip Park Santa Cruz.

Jay Magee.

Wyatt Howe.

Sam Aronie.

Bicycle Trip Park - Santa Cruz

The new Bicycle Trip Park has just opened at Santa Cruz.

Antony, Jordan and Kyle at the Bike Park - Santa Cruz

We have been at the new Bicycle Trip Bike park a hand full of time now. One of the biker thought that Lucas and Benoit were brothers with Matt Davies the pro scooter rider. Not quite but may be some days, they'll do some of its tricks.

Antony

Shifty

Benoit Rouchy

Kyle wall ride

Jordan FS air

Jordan yet another FS air

Lucas Rouchy

Bicycle Trip Park

Benoit and Lucas are enjoying the new Bicycle Trip park at Santa Cruz. The park has just open for bikes and scooters.

Benoit clearing the smallest jump.

Lucas ollie.

Kyle.

Benoit clearing the gap.

Dirt Bike Polo Ground

Benoit is enjoying the sun at the dirt bike park at the Polo Ground near Aptos. Time has come for a new bike.

Castle Rock Indian Rock Bouldering

Kevin "Takashi" Smith, Brian Wilkerson and I climbed a few new routes at Castle Rock, Indian Rock.
We started with "No Moss Arete" V2, that Rob Morris and I FA last year. After that, Kevin tackled the "Clam Traverse" V9, while Brian and I worked our way on the "International Male" early topout V5.

Castle Rock Bouldering July 2009

Rob, Brian and I revisited some of the bouldering classics, like The beak traverse and the frog traverse.
We also tested Groundation but not luck there.

Santa Cruz Steamer Lane Surfing

Summer has arrived with its tourists and small glassy waves.

Riley and Tyler Scootering Derby Park

Tobie, Lance, Riley and Tyler visited us a couple a week ago. Tyler and Benoit belong to the snowboarding Bear Valley DEVO team.
On Saturday, we spent some time at the local skate park Derby. Too bad, on Sunday, Tyler broke his hand falling of the scooter, so they ended up at the local hospital. The timing could have been better just a couple of days before the end of school.

Benoit and his nice new pant.

Bike works too.

Riley big air above the grass plant.

Benoit training for the Winter next big air event.

Benoit Scootering at the Marina

The Marina skate park was once again closed because of graffiti. It was not enough to stop Benoit, who crossed the street to the baseball field where he jumped some stairs.

Scotts Creek Surfing - Santa Cruz

A few weeks ago, we visited Scotts Creek as Santa Cruz. Only a handful of surfers were on the water. May be one day, Benoit and I, will be strong enough to surf there, but meantime, we ended up at Cowell beach, with the beginners.

Chris Johnson One Footed Hand Rail

Chris Johnson executing a one footed F/S board slide on a hand rail during the Bear Valley 2009 Rail Jam.

Bear Valley Blue Jay Kicker

The riders step up their games with big spin and grabs. The kicker was build on Blue Jay at Bear Valley.

Benoit

James Young spinning 720 (still 360 to go).

Stephan 360.

Emily from Australia getting big air.

Matt Grenlee 540.