Camping in Los Padres

Celebrated our 7 year anniversary a few weekends ago with a little camping trip to Los Padres Natl Forest and exploring around Ojai! Went on a good hike in the afternoon, and got to camp next to a running stream.  Here's a few pics along the way :) 

Breakfast at Bonnie Lu's in Ojai. Great diner style place! This guy made the picture 

Ventured into some of the many trendy shops in Ojai

Fiddled around with the GoPro a little bit more this trip: 

Then we hiked 

View of the mountains nearby

Great clouds and greenery around here!

 

Flowers all over and lots of lady bugs in these also

Kept sprinkling on and off that day and was nice to be out in it

Kinda staged. Yes, we brought chess while camping...

Not staged

Intense

Making moves

Uh oh...

Checkmate!

First time using some new battery-powered LED string of lights in the tent - One of Mel's christmas gifts from someone :)

Just kinda dangled the GoPro out of the top netting. Pumped how these came out!

  

:)

Other direction

Accidental picture

Nom nom nom

What?!

Over the past 7 years, I've learned that bread make this girl happy

Mammoth for Work

Headed up to Mammoth Mtn for some wear testing a few weeks ago - best week of the year for work :) Got in some good riding and got to do a lot of other stuff in the evenings also since the mountain closes by 4pm. Overall awesome week of riding, skating, food, and other stuff (see pics)

Went to these hot springs a couple days in a row. Here's the path leading to them. 

Hiking out

Done for the night, good sunset this day

Jordan and his wife walking back/looking at pics they just took of the scenery

 

Went to the skatepark a couple of days also. Lots of good people in town for some other event, so it was fun to see this park skated by some really good people

Skating with one of our snowboard team guys - he's quite the shredder on a skateboard also

Sunset shot

Pic of Ed I shot on my go pro. I think I paused the video clip on my computer and took a picture of the computer screen here, so it's not the best quality, but good little grab he did :)

Ed brought up some guns and ammo so we drove out into the forest for a while and found this clearing and shot some. Pretty fun! I hadn't shot a gun in probably 10 years.

The mountain had this park set up for some event. Lots of really good people out there so it was fun to watch on the chair lifts up. 

Big jumps! and dirty snow. it is very near the end of the season for the mountain

 

View from the top of the mountain (13,000ft I think)

Panorama from the top

China March 2015

Went out to China again this March for work. Fortunately only two weeks this time and everything went really smoothly and pretty well. Here's a few pics and words along the way

First stop was up in Xiamen, China, across the water from Taiwan. This was a pretty cool area actually, and a proper city/downtown that was fun to roam around

Juss, skitching along

Two seater scooter turned into a three seater scooter :)

Open air market I came across one morning

Same market

Basically an outdoor grocery store..

Even meat is sold :)

We're working with a new factory, which is much nicer, and they had this little guy that we got to play with after lunch each day

:)

But most of the time was spent like this, reviewing boots with factory workers and their developers

Lunchtime for these ladies - she's using different colored thread to stitch and fill in each area to create that image. Pretty rad

Hong Kong on the weekend, skating with Jordan, Neal, and Juss

Found this park. pretty fun!

Hotel in Guangzhou, China was super super nice! Still pretty cheap, but really nice

Pool at the hotel

Dinner one night - got served these things with a blue flame. There was some gel they were lighting on fire that would burn for a while in that cup

Two-wheeler culture

Mobile garden

Just transporting a few containers of gas….

Best meal of the trip was on our last day. This is some northwest China/Muslim style food, and its soooo good. Somehow they had french fries also and ordered us those, but the other food was awesome

Worst bathroom I have seen at another small factory we visited...

Another skatepark in Hong Kong that was super awesome! Really really fun