Lucas' Teck Deck Ollie Master

Benoit is practicing his ollie in preparation of next Eron's skateboarding class at Fair Oak skate park but Lucas stole the show with his infamous teck-deck ollie.

Benoit working on his ollie. Thanks for Eron for teaching him.

Woo, nice pop!

Benoit borrowed Tevo's scooter.

Ollie to back side board slide left handed!

Tevo's bunny hop.

Barbecue with Thomas' family

We celebrated Fall with a nice barbecue in our back yard. Thomas, Jordan's families, Francois and Isabelle made it.

Marshmallow craze, Lucas, Benoit and Estelle.

Adrian Sky Walker.

Helena.

Estelle.

Corridor Arete - Castle Rock Bouldering

Joel and I went back to the Tree in the Wall boulders. We got to climb a new line that I spotted a few days back but could not complete because of the poor landing. The name of the climb is The corridor arete (V2).

Extension to the Crustacean Transformation route. Traverse right to the large hueco. Scary because the climb cannot be protected with crash pad, but not too hard.

New route that Ryan put a few weeks back. Start left hand in the crack side pull crimp and right hand sloppy hold, reach nob and dyno to large hueco. I do not have the name of the climb or the grade yet.

The nice (!!) crack is called Benoit's route (V0). On the right of the crack, unnamed route starts from a large hold and go up on fragile flake (V0).

Corridor arete (V2) starts right hand on tiny side pull crimp (chest high) and good left hold (over head). Match starting hold, go to the nice flake and fire to a large hueco.

Turtle Rock Bouldering - San Francisco

Turtle Rock has great bouldering with an awesome vista to San Francisco and Marin County. Benoit sent his first V1, very powerful, overhanging, on good holds. Meantime, I almost (2 inches) put my hand on a snake on the top of the rock. I wonder what was that snake doing there but it did scare the shit out of me.

Benoit working the sit down start .

Nice work!

Sending the V4 low traverse.

V1 slab, a bit worry about lose rock.

The dream team.

Fort Ross Bouldering - Point Reyes

Fort Ross boulder is a huge piece of sandstone, way north Bodega bay. From Point Reyes campground, it took me a hour and half to get there. I got my ass kick and could only do the opening moves of the routes. I got too scared since I had not spotter. Next time, hopefully, Rob and Brian (the big guys) will join the party.


The view from the road is impressive, but do not get distracted because there is no room for mistakes, beside, cows are roaming the road freely.

Drunk As a Skunk - Castle Rock Bouldering

A few yards from Tree In the Wall main boulders, more routes can be found. Drunk as a Skunk is a great line, overhanging with not so big holds. Worth a try.

Route 1: Drunk as a Skunk V6

Route 2: Scalawag Traverse V3,
Route 3: Hornswaggle Mantle V4

Route 4: Poop-shoot Pirate V4,
Route 5: Pirate's Lookout V1,
Route 6: Ruperts Ride V2

Routes 7 and 8: Warm up slab

Route 9: Easy traverse

Tree in The Wall - Castle Rock Bouldering

Mike and Ryan have discovered a new bouldering area at Castle Rock. The parking lot is about 2 miles from CR parking lot, south on the 35. The routes descriptions can be found on rockclimbing.

Route 1: Trailblazer Arete V0 and route 2: Crustacean Transformation V3

Route 3: Tree Trouble V5

Route 4: Gym Rat Mantle V3

Route 5: Barbed Wire V4

Route 8: Shit Stain V3

Route 6: Unnamed V0, Route 7: Bee's Nest V6

Big Sur's Molera State Park

We decided to head south to Garrapata Creek in a bouldering hunting trip. The road does not have many access to the coast since most of them are private properties. Driving about 10 miles south, we stopped at the Rocky point restaurant but found only loose rocks and fishermen.

After Rocky point, the road never gets close to the beach anymore for many miles. The access to the sea is limited since it is getting really steep.


The next time the road reaches the beach, we could not access it either because it belongs to the Naval Army. What a bummer, stretch of pristine beaches left to military!
Further south, we stopped at the Molera state park and walked to the beach. Plenty of rock could be found there, but the sandstone rock is too fragile for climbing.
Nevertheless, the kids had fun making and fixing their house beach.

Nice Fire Place.

Lucas Broke His Arm

Lucas broke his arm falling off the fence on Saturday. At the emergency, the doctor fixed his arm very well , and after a few days with a temporary cast, he got his final one in red.

His arm should be back, fully operational in 8 weeks, just on time for the ski season.

Red Cast, Red Shirt.

Next time, Benoit will spot Lucas...

Claire

Lucas Gardening

Lucas is preparing new plants for the garden.

Big Sur Garrapata Bouldering

Garrapata Creek has some decent granite and sandstone bouldering. It can be found about 9 miles south the Rio road cross light.