Suddenly you drive over the hilltop and you see this:
But what I see in my head is this:
I blame xkcd....
Monday, August 8, 2011
Windmills
Driving the short-cut over the hill from Livermore to Tracy in central valley friday, I saw all the windmills up there closer up. They are kind of unnerving...
Suddenly you drive over the hilltop and you see this:
But what I see in my head is this:
I blame xkcd....
Suddenly you drive over the hilltop and you see this:
But what I see in my head is this:
I blame xkcd....
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Cathedral peak
Yesterday me and Andrew finally got to climb cathedral peak. It was awesome! :)
Cathedral peak is THE classic on Tuolumne meadows. Its a 5 pich 5.6 climb to an almost 12 000 feet tall peak with awesome view over the meadows and Yosemite national park in general, and the climbing is really fun on solid granite with protection wherever you want it. The only problem with it is that its really crowded... We drove from Livermore after work Friday, camped at our secret free camping and started hiking up 8.30ish. Andrew have been there two times before and I trusted him knowing the way, so we ended hiking way longer than necessary... We started climbing kind of in the middle of the rush of people, and had plenty of other parties on all sides of us. Social and nice on the belays, and since it was warm and sunny and we had the whole day, we basically just enjoyed going slow, since it was not much else to do about it. The climbing was really really fun and easy. There is for instance an awesome chimney, which I loved.
Cathedral peak is THE classic on Tuolumne meadows. Its a 5 pich 5.6 climb to an almost 12 000 feet tall peak with awesome view over the meadows and Yosemite national park in general, and the climbing is really fun on solid granite with protection wherever you want it. The only problem with it is that its really crowded... We drove from Livermore after work Friday, camped at our secret free camping and started hiking up 8.30ish. Andrew have been there two times before and I trusted him knowing the way, so we ended hiking way longer than necessary... We started climbing kind of in the middle of the rush of people, and had plenty of other parties on all sides of us. Social and nice on the belays, and since it was warm and sunny and we had the whole day, we basically just enjoyed going slow, since it was not much else to do about it. The climbing was really really fun and easy. There is for instance an awesome chimney, which I loved.
We are going there!
Me and my favorite belay. Beautiful view and exposure, nice comfy place to sit :)
Summit photo.
Eichorn peak and the view from the summit.
Andrew climbing.
Me and my favorite belay. Beautiful view and exposure, nice comfy place to sit :)
Summit photo.
Eichorn peak and the view from the summit.
Andrew climbing.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Climbing Matterhorn peak and Horse creek tower
This weekend, again, I drove over Tioga pass to the East Sierras (I figured out I have been there more than in San Fransisco during my time in Bay area...). This time I went with Peter, and we climbed Horse creek tower and Matterhorn peak. It was awesome! :)
Matterhorn peak is the one in the middle, not really looking like Matterhorn at all... We climbed up a little to the left of the arete in the middle. The top is almost 4000m (12 279 ft) high.
Me being kind of cold and probably a bit miserable due to the altitude on one of the belays, also probably dreaming of burgers on the Tioga gas mart (which to anyone who have not been there is a wierd gas station/resturant/souvernir shop east of Tioga pass). Saw tooth ridge in the background.
Finally on the top! Now we just had three hours to get down before the camping where we stored the food we did not bring (to protect it from bears) closed. We missed it with half an hour, but was lucky enough to find some employees there with no life outside the overfilled RV camp still there.
Peter hiking against Horse creek tower, which we climbed the first day. This thing we climbed on the right side, which can't really be seen on the picture.
Peter on a belay.
Me being kind of cold and probably a bit miserable due to the altitude on one of the belays, also probably dreaming of burgers on the Tioga gas mart (which to anyone who have not been there is a wierd gas station/resturant/souvernir shop east of Tioga pass). Saw tooth ridge in the background.
Finally on the top! Now we just had three hours to get down before the camping where we stored the food we did not bring (to protect it from bears) closed. We missed it with half an hour, but was lucky enough to find some employees there with no life outside the overfilled RV camp still there.
Peter hiking against Horse creek tower, which we climbed the first day. This thing we climbed on the right side, which can't really be seen on the picture.
Peter on a belay.Camping and hiking in Mammoth lakes 4th july weekend
The 4th of July weekend I went with Andrew, Greg, Danielle, Garret and Kate to Mammoth lakes for a long weekend of hiking and camping. We hiked in to a lake outside Mammoth and camped there. Afterwards we had time for some hotpooling and sights seeing.
I tried fly fishing for the first time in many many years. I was not very good... No fish on me....
Garret and Greg however, got some, so we had fresh fish for dinner!
4th of july, I was made pose with the east sierra and cows in the background :)
On the way back I finally got to drive over Tuolumne in the light. This is Andrew posing on one of the lockouts and getting sick of me being slow taking pictures :)
Garret, Andrew, me, Kate, Danielle and Greg on the hike!
Garret and Greg however, got some, so we had fresh fish for dinner!
4th of july, I was made pose with the east sierra and cows in the background :)
On the way back I finally got to drive over Tuolumne in the light. This is Andrew posing on one of the lockouts and getting sick of me being slow taking pictures :)
Garret, Andrew, me, Kate, Danielle and Greg on the hike!Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Yosemite
Livermore is still a nice place, though a little warm... I like my job and this weekend I went to Yosemite with Andrew, Greg and Danielle, where we also met some more friends of Greg.
My yr.no first page. Speaks for itself.
On the way some REAL cowboys where herding cows over the road.
The waterfalls was huge now, because of the large amount to snow on Tuoalome meadows and snow melting now.
Classy with wine from pasta jars :)
My first smores :) Danielle thought I had to embrace the American culture. Good i must admit but maybe a little too sweet for me though...
Andrew seconding me on Munginella, 5.6. Really fun easy 3 pich climb.
Me on belay.
View of Halfdome.
Danielle and Greg climbing the same after us.
My yr.no first page. Speaks for itself.
On the way some REAL cowboys where herding cows over the road.
The waterfalls was huge now, because of the large amount to snow on Tuoalome meadows and snow melting now.
Classy with wine from pasta jars :)
My first smores :) Danielle thought I had to embrace the American culture. Good i must admit but maybe a little too sweet for me though...
Andrew seconding me on Munginella, 5.6. Really fun easy 3 pich climb.
Me on belay.
View of Halfdome.
Danielle and Greg climbing the same after us.Friday, June 17, 2011
Sailing and Berkeley
This week I have been at Berkeley filling out even more forms and listening to even more information.. Kind of filled up.. However, Berkeley was a pretty campus and a pretty area.
The tower at Berkeley campus. I think it is famous so I took a picture of it as the good tourist I am.
Ville, who is in the same intern program as me. He is a theoretical physicist and I had to take a picture of him because I have watched to much Big bang theory lately :)
Wednesday my supervisor Jaime took us sailing. I have never been sailing so it was really cool to try!
Anis, Jaime, Alex steering and Sylvain.
Me steering the boat! San Fransisco in the background.
Ville, who is in the same intern program as me. He is a theoretical physicist and I had to take a picture of him because I have watched to much Big bang theory lately :)
Wednesday my supervisor Jaime took us sailing. I have never been sailing so it was really cool to try!
Anis, Jaime, Alex steering and Sylvain.
Me steering the boat! San Fransisco in the background.Monday, June 13, 2011
Living in Livermore
I am now all set in Livermore, California for the summer. I actually really love it here. Livermore is a really cute little town, and I love my job. It is close to San Fransisco (1,5 hour by bus and train) but still kind of farmland. Lot of wineries and some cows. It was actually the first wine area in California, even though Napa and Sonoma now is way more famous. Yesteday we went to the 93de yearly Livermore rodeo, which was totally an experience! Very American.
Bull riding.
Wild cow milking. My favourite at the rodeo, and sponsored by Nesquick.... If you are wondering what they do, let me explain. First they let in a wild running cow, then one person on a horse with a lasso, who catch the cow with it. Then one of the people by the fence comes running, grabs the cow by its head and neck and holds it, the person on the horse jumps of, runs over with a bottle, milk a little and runs back to the fence. The fastest team wins.
Amanda and Cindy.
1st street Livermore. The two blocks that basically contains all downtown. A couple of resturants, a cinema and a very few shops (for instance a western outfitter with cowboy clothes...).
Where I live!
Wild cow milking. My favourite at the rodeo, and sponsored by Nesquick.... If you are wondering what they do, let me explain. First they let in a wild running cow, then one person on a horse with a lasso, who catch the cow with it. Then one of the people by the fence comes running, grabs the cow by its head and neck and holds it, the person on the horse jumps of, runs over with a bottle, milk a little and runs back to the fence. The fastest team wins.
Amanda and Cindy.
1st street Livermore. The two blocks that basically contains all downtown. A couple of resturants, a cinema and a very few shops (for instance a western outfitter with cowboy clothes...).
Where I live! Sunday, June 5, 2011
Mini vacation in Eresfjorden
The last weekend me and Martin went to my families cabin in Eresfjorden for a long weekend, just so that I could get some vacation before spending the whole summer working on a lab in Livermore, California. We also planed on getting sick of each other, so that we wouldn't miss each other for the summer. However, we had a lot of fun, so the plan did unfortunately not work... The weather was really bad, but as the playgound Eresfjorden is, it did not really matter :)
Me and Mardøla waterfall (almost 300m free fall). We went here the first day just to be a little touristy, and also the weather was to bad to do much more...
Eikesdal lake.
Martin on the way to Kleinegga (1964m). Where we went the second day. This is the highest mountain in Nesset county where the cabin is, and also one of the highest in the area. We had to hike the beginning, and then we could ski the rest.
Me! :)
The view towards Kleinegga (1964m) and Børå, the two highest mountains in Nesset.
Me trying the new dangerous sport of Planking, on the top of the cairn on top of Kleinegga.
Telemark skiing going down...
Sea kayaking in the fjord in the rain the day after that again, and some pretty little waterfall.
On the way to Styggværstind (meaning bad weather mountiain), looking towards Helvetestind. We hiked here one day, because we found the name appropriate.
Going down :)
River kayaking in Eira the last day. The river was not as still as this the whole way :) Lot of fun!!!
Eikesdal lake.
Martin on the way to Kleinegga (1964m). Where we went the second day. This is the highest mountain in Nesset county where the cabin is, and also one of the highest in the area. We had to hike the beginning, and then we could ski the rest.
Me! :)
The view towards Kleinegga (1964m) and Børå, the two highest mountains in Nesset.
Me trying the new dangerous sport of Planking, on the top of the cairn on top of Kleinegga.
Telemark skiing going down...
Sea kayaking in the fjord in the rain the day after that again, and some pretty little waterfall.
On the way to Styggværstind (meaning bad weather mountiain), looking towards Helvetestind. We hiked here one day, because we found the name appropriate.
Going down :)
River kayaking in Eira the last day. The river was not as still as this the whole way :) Lot of fun!!!
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Easter
I have not been very good updating my blog lately, but finally, here is some pictures from the last part of eastern, which was spent in Eresfjorden with Kristin, Stian, Mari, Per Kristian, Anders and Martin.
First day, Thursday, was a really misty rainy day, and we just went halfway up on Ryssdalsnebba.
Friday, the weather turned beautiful, so Kristin got to use the cool white sunglasses and I got really sunburned...
Mari, me and Martin went to Skjøvdøla, which is the last of the 1711 meter high mountains that I hadn't been on. It is a really awesome trip with a lot of nice views and spectacular scenery. However, it is also quite long, and we used 9 hours and got down quite exhausted.
Martin on the way down.
Saturday we had to rest a little, and went to Goksøyra, which is not that short, and not really rest. However, I think we spent over an hour at this rock in the sun :)
Kristin and Anders desperately seeking snow :)
Monday, Martin turned 30, and we made a cake with Skjorta with skiiers on!
After last trip on Sunday, already planning next trip :)
My second cousin Torgeir on the way to Skjorta Sunday, in shorts and down jacket :)
Anders playing ukulele on the top of Skjorta, Sunday.
Spelling 1711 on the top on Skjorta 1711 meters above sea.
Lunch on Goksøyra
First day, Thursday, was a really misty rainy day, and we just went halfway up on Ryssdalsnebba.
Friday, the weather turned beautiful, so Kristin got to use the cool white sunglasses and I got really sunburned...
Mari, me and Martin went to Skjøvdøla, which is the last of the 1711 meter high mountains that I hadn't been on. It is a really awesome trip with a lot of nice views and spectacular scenery. However, it is also quite long, and we used 9 hours and got down quite exhausted.
Martin on the way down.
Saturday we had to rest a little, and went to Goksøyra, which is not that short, and not really rest. However, I think we spent over an hour at this rock in the sun :)
Kristin and Anders desperately seeking snow :)
Monday, Martin turned 30, and we made a cake with Skjorta with skiiers on!
After last trip on Sunday, already planning next trip :)
My second cousin Torgeir on the way to Skjorta Sunday, in shorts and down jacket :)
Anders playing ukulele on the top of Skjorta, Sunday.
Spelling 1711 on the top on Skjorta 1711 meters above sea.
Lunch on Goksøyra
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