Saturday, October 31, 2009

Bishop Road Trip Summer 2009

Bishop is one of the favorite destination for climbers with top notch bouldering, sport and trade climb.

We camped a few night during the summer and checked out the natural hot springs.

Lucas climbing that nice slaby 5.8 route.


Beautiful scenery can be seen off the high way 395.

Benoit and Lucas posing in front of old furniture that can be seen at the Train museum Bishop.






Natural hot spring with warn but not too warm water. Life is good.



Some more hot spring to warm to take a bath.

France Vacation Fall 2009

For a change, I spend my vacation in France during Fall and the hunting season.

Poorly maintain!

Instant classic!

Nice view from my Dad's home.



The president of the local hunting group and his son looking for jack rabbit.

Wow, that is an amazing picture that I shot here on my way to my grandma, near Super Besse.

Bort-les Orgues.

Fontanges where most of my family leaves must be one of the most beautiful village in France.

Les monts du Cantal.

La Bastide where I spend a few summers.

Bort-les-Orgue dam, one of the largest in France.


My friend Jean-lou's chicken running for his live.

The house is named "La Caroline" since the first owner, who spent a few years in North/South Carolina in US, decided to built it, modeled from the colonial houses.

Benoit Soccer 4-1

Benoit's soccer team had not won a single game this season but that was before this game.

They played at night on a very large field which somehow suited their style. Benoit played quite amazing like his all team who defended like never before.

Time to pick up the shirt.

Benoit could not be stopped. Don't even try, it is hopeless.

Larger field is good since it stretches the lines and creates space.

They play for fun but winning adds to it.

Pumpkin Patch

Halloween is just around the corner. Lucas and Benoit visited, north of Santa Cruz, this nice pumpkin patch and choose a few of them.

Lucas selected the smallest and the least expensive so he could get many of them. Make sense, indeed.




The biggest one were a bit too expensive for the kids.