Bear Valley Back Country Trip - May 2010

For the last trip at Bear Valley, we hiked up to the top of the ski resort with snow shoes. It took us about 1 hour. Benoit and Lucas warmed up by jumping the cornice. We finished up the day by a few runs of Snoopy hill.


Lucas is getting ready. The snow shoe ended up too large for him, so he hiked up with his ski boots. Not a problem, since the snow was icy enough.

View to the Bear Valley lodge

Lucas off the cornice. They did not jump from the highest point because of the risk that the cornice will collapse!

Benoit "Flying" off the cornice.

Benoit can be seen on the top of the hill.

Bear Valley Jump Session

Benoit, Lucas and I built a jump in the backside of Bear Valley. Benoit and Lucas tried a few 180 FS and BS.
Check the back flip tentative by Lucas :)

Tamarack Bouldering

Tamarack bouldering can be found a few miles before Bear Valley village. A few weeks ago, I noticed that nice horizontal crack which was a bit high (15 feet). We came back prepared with a rope and a few slings, so we could set up an anchor.
The anchor was flaky but the kids managed to climb half of the route and the anchor did not blew off.

Rope and bouldering do not match too well! Trying to remember the anchor class 101.

Natural rest!

View from Bear Valley resort. The snow is on its way!

Pacific Edge Bouldering Video

Bouldering Bas Cuvier France

About 1 year and half ago, we met at Fontainebleau Bas Cuvier, Telopa's family.

Lucas doing what he does best: Clown.

Checking a 7a which was way too hard.

Benoit was with his grand parents.

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.

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.

Carmel Bouldering

Since Castle Rock is too warm, we headed down to Carmel for some kick ass beach bouldering on decent sandstone.
We spotted that overhanging line which freaked us out since it was probably about 18 feet tall.

Crab Town Bouldering

Near Garrapata state beach, we stopped at Crab Town for some great bouldering on solid rock.

Nice warmup route. Benoit cruzed it as well, which was not to Rob taste!

Shouldery and powerful moves.

Nice easy arete.

WOW! So much better than the gym.

High ball quality problem.

John showing the slab technique.

Carmel Meadows Bouldering

On Sunday, Rob, Brian, John, Benoit and Estelle went to Carmel for a fun bouldering session. We first stop at Carmel Meadows for some exciting sandy bouldering.

Estelle and Benoit cruzing.

Nice slab. We were not bold enough to do the direct line right in the middle. Next time.

Too few boulders on the beach, but that one was great! Ask Rob, he took home a large chunk.

Brian posing.

Estelle art of work.

Mechanic Time

My motorcycle has not been working too well lately. Benoit and I decided to check the carburetor. We got the ramp out of the frame and were wondering what to do next!

It is a bit messy.

Bear Valley Portraits

After one good day of ski, it was time for some portrait photos. Lucas and Benoit are wearing the Bear Valley Devo team fleece.

Bouldering at Castle Rock secret spot

Brian, Joel, Rob, Lucas, Benoit and I went to Castle Rock. The weather was more like summer and we enjoyed our bouldering session.

New Year's Eve

Francois was not done setting his camera. Next time :)

Connex Master

Jedi Luc Skywalker.

Jedi Ben Kenobi.

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