Weekly Pano: Sculptured Beach @ Pt. Reyes.

Scuptured beach is a great place to spend the day with your little ones.  Arches, tunnels, and tide pools to explore, and small beach to chill at, it's a really nice destination on your next run. On this day, we hiked a mile south from Coast Camp with the kiddos.  

Steens Mountain Vid...

I'm working on the full post... but it's been quite busy the last few months, so not sure when I'll be finished with it.  Here's the vid, which gives you a better taste of our experience.

Monthly Pano: Tomales Bay Sunrise

From our beachside campsite at Tomales Bay.  Full report coming... 

Spring Lake Family Camping 2015!

Here's some pics from our awesome weekend up at Spring Lake.  Our second year of visiting this amazingly kid friendly park.  Here's the pics from last year... when the world cup was in full swing.  

This year we had Roger, Geo & Alice; Kev, Laura, Riley, Sully & Shaye; Morton, Marian & Zoe all stay overnight.  Hoeft brought his boys, Danielle her girls, and Odin and his family came up for the day for Kai's B-day celebration.

This park is so easy and fun, it's a no brainer as an annual visit.

on our way up we stopped by Ippo Ramen for a yummy snack.

And when we got there we had enough daylight and warm sunshine to have a quick soak.

Geo captivating the audience...

Nikko the race car driver...

The next morning Kai rode his bike down to the lake in his PJs, while I jogged behind him.  

And set up for his B-day!

Time for cupcakes!

The SUP provided quite a dock for jumping off of.  This one has removable fins, so it's good to bring here.  

Nikko proving that he would've been a cute girl too.  

maybe not as cute as these two

Kevin goes down easy for naptime.

more stories... Kids love Geo!

We went to the campfire talk where Kai & Riley participated in charades!

hugs...

Kevin basking solo in his disco dance party

BTW.... This guy just became my hero:

Monthly Pano: Steens Mtn

Steens Summit!

Had an amazing trip with Sigman & Barrett, riding around Steens Mountain in South Eastern Oregon.  A full TR will be coming your way, but I just wanted to show you some panos from the area first.  Here's a nice summary of our ride with a map.  

http://ridewithgps.com/ambassador_routes/10-steens-mountain-ob-edition

Looking down at Wildhorse Lake from the summit trailhead. One of the prettiest lakes I've ever seen. 

Barrett on the summit trail

Looking down at Kiger Gorge, the most impressive of Steens' 3 gorges.

B taking it all in...

Sunset at Crystal Crane Hot Springs...

Mann Lake

Steens Mountain from the east.  on our last day.  

Looking down at Alvord Desert, the driest spot in Oregon.  

Here's the cute kiddies pic of the week:

Weekend at Skeggs & Demo

Enjoyed two great days of mountain biking in one weekend!  That was awesome.  Went to Skeggs Pt (El Corte De Madera) with Sigman (met up with Toro at lunch time)... then to Demo with Funk & Metres.  

check out this tree that's totally being supported by it's roots...

banana slugs...

Sigman trying to patch his tubeless tire... 

too many rules...

Toro... struggling up the hills

Here's our track from the day: https://www.strava.com/activities/343351855

We were trying to do all of Skeggs... but came about 10 miles short.  http://www.mxi2000.net/mudworm/rides/skeggs#ride6

Went home straight to Circus Bella at Bites off Broadway.  Turns out the circus family that performs with them is staying next door to James & Courtney.  

Kai's new toy.  We went down to camp at James & Courtney's backyard for Eli's B-day.  We stopped at Coyote Hills Regional Park on the way down and I got to run alongside Kai on the bike path. https://www.strava.com/activities/343930539

Funk... funking up his chain... 

Huge Radical Air!

Metres had won the "Best Biff..." He thinks he broke a rib.  We all laughed.  

Another amazing day at Demo.  Really need to capture more footage next time.  Here's our tracks.   https://www.strava.com/activities/345258615

blurry... it's for your own good... 

Had such a great time at the Dead show in Santa Clara.  Been listening to this quite a bit... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGVXtk7oZ1A

Alt Ride 2015.

I've seen a lot of really cool posts on exposure.co, so I decided to give it a try...

Check it out: https://snowymonk.exposure.co/alt-ride-2015