For the months preceding our trip, my roommate Matt, my cousin Shane, and I plotted out our course across Utah, with the intent of spending as much time as we could off-road, over the coming 4th of July weekend. This video series is the documentation of that… In this installment, we begin our trek to […]
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To Plan an Expedition
“What better place than here, what better time than now?” -Zack de la Rocha Overview: Exploration; The desire to discover uncharted territories, conquer challenging obstacles, experience new and fascinating cultures, and experience breathtaking views of Planet Earth innately resides in us as humans as the want for growth and knowledge. For our team, the long-term sights […]
Encierro; After You Run with Bulls… What do you do, now? San Fermin Festival, continued.
“At noon we were all at the cafe. It was crowded. We were eating shrimps and drinking beer. The town was crowded. Every street was full.” – Hemingway With so much excitement from the run, it is easy to forget that it is barely 0830! The day evolves, the food and drink continue to make […]
Encierro; What it is like to Run with the Bulls, San Fermin Festival, Pamplona, Spain, 2016 (Part 1)
The things that happened could only have happened during a fiesta. Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta.” – Ernest Hemingway, “The Sun Also Rises” The warm beaches of Northern Spain greeted me from outside […]
Little Harbor to Avalon, the Springtime Backcountry of Santa Catalina Island; Thru-Hiking the Trans-Catalina Trail.. Day Two
Waking up after Day One, the second day of our Trans-Catalina Trail (TCT) journey began as we rose with the sun. Ocean waves collide with rocks, a JetBoil ignites to provide the precious dark, brown, caffeinated nectar of the gods that would fuel our bodies for a strenuous day of challenging elevation gains, and two adventurous souls […]
An hour-long ferry from L.A. to “Island Time”; Thru-Hiking the Trans-Catalina Trail.. Day One
As a preface; The second weekend of April we hiked the Trans-Catalina Trail (TCT) from Two Harbors to Avalon, while we did not have the time to complete the Starlight Beach and Northern portion of the trail, this trip was still extremely rewarding and a great weekend challenge. The beauty of this trail is that […]
Other worlds within our own; Trona Pinnacles, CA.
The weekend of April Fools found us time for a day-drive to the mysterious Trona Pinnacles in Ridgecrest/Trona, California. Located a few miles south of the Panamint Valley and the entrance to Death Valley, the Trona Pinnacles are a quick drive from the Greater Los Angeles area, and truly a spectacle to behold. We approached the […]
In the anticline.
“…The wonderful grandeur, the sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it.” – Theodore Roosevelt This past weekend we took a trip to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in Southern California, […]
If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss [the wildflowers].
Driving through the Joshua Tree National Park this weekend, I was exposed to a rare glimpse of life and color. We’re currently experiencing the ‘Superbloom’, an event that occurs when extraordinary amounts of rain fall on the desert, causing flowers to bloom at unprecedented levels. This ‘Superbloom’ is a direct result of ‘El Niño’ and […]