Yosemite Valley therapy
The past few weeks have been hectic. I have been working nights as doorman at a restaurant and spending my days focused on my own projects and helping out friends on others. I begun to feel pulled in multiple directions. I still love waking up everyday and thinking about adventures and building a photography portfolio of images of the people and places that I love most. But after a few weeks back to back in the City amongst its jarring noise, and focusing on exploits and images in the wilds, I felt myself beginning to crack. I had to breathe some mountain air.
Luckily, I know exactly what medicine to take: Yosemite. Last Monday I picked up, tossed my climbing gear in the Corolla and headed out to the Valley. After two days of leisurely climbing in warm spring temps, my stresses from the city had vanished and my mind had switched its mountain focus from climbing and skiing, snowy peaks, to climbing smooth, crack-ridden granite walls. Bring on the spring.
Bridalveil Fall in full spring flow.
Upper Yosemite and budding trees along the Merced River.
Dan drinks up on my first climb of the season, Commitment, 5.9.
Dan takes a break before pulling through the roof.
Before having to head back to work and down to the Bay, Kristin and I woke up early to squeeze in a morning climb.
Community Protest
Local fishing boat protests mine construction. Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, MX
Kicking it off
Ever since I was a child, I have sought out adventure. Whether I was tromping through the woods, scrambling up peaks in the Sierra or surfing choppy windswell on the Carolina coast, I spent my days dreaming of venturing out to the most beautiful, remote parts of the world. In 2004 I moved to Yosemite Valley to spend a summer in the heart of my favorite mountain range, the Sierra Nevada. One day after work, a friend invited me to try rock climbing. I tied in for the first time, grunted up a short climb and looked back to see Half Dome bathed in late evening light. I was hooked for life. Now an adult, I live in Berkeley, California and am still pursuing those childhood dreams of adventure through climbing, skiing, surfing and travel. Now I have a new dream: making adventure my life.
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