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bmwman91
01-09-2007, 02:03 AM
So, about 2.5 years ago one of my best friends transferred from UOP to UCSB. It was for a variety of reasons, and I kinda wanted to as well, but UOP's engineering program had a number of advantages. So, I stayed (and have no regrets). Him & I have hung out a few times since then, and I finally made the time to go down there & visit and do more than just get ragingly drunk (the other time I was there was for Halloween...the whole town of Isla Vista is basically a 30,000 person street-party). Another good friend of ours (who stuck around UOP as well) came down for the weekend, so it was sorta like old times, except nobody was living in a dorm, and we could afford more than Keystone Ice lol.

So, here are the chronicles of the weekend.

Nick (right) & I (left) smoking the old-man pipe. Nothing like a little nicotine to ummm get you hooked on tobacco products?
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Now THIS is a dinner. We later decided to grill up somereal food, but this did us for a little while lol.
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A real early-20's man's fridge!
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This is Jorge, the friend of ours who came down from UOP later Friday night. He decided to try and sleep in later than we thought proper. This is what you get for being a lazy bum.
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Nick rappeling down the first route after setting up the anchors. I soon followed.
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An anchor!
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I cannot remember what the famous painting is called, but we reenacted it with an apple sauce container. Jorge (on the right).
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This was me at the top of my first lead-climb. After top-roping the route once or twice I decided to try to lead it. It was only a 5.6a, but damn you rethink every hold when you are working up to the next anchor point.
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Nick leading a route he had never tried before. It was a 5.9b...he took a little spill partway up.
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Nick's GF belaying him, me airing out my feet. Climbing shoes are stuffy!
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ROCK!
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Sunset after day 1 on the way out.
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Nick & I set out on Sunday for some more action at a place known as "Gibraltar."
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Aye, captain. The view is good.
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Me posing because, well, what else can you do with a view like this!
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bmwman91
01-09-2007, 02:03 AM
My new climbing shoes. I must say, these beat bare-footing it.
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Anchors all set and ready to go. This face at Gibraltar is ~60ft tall.
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Nickman on his way down.
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Me making sure everything is set to go. Dying is bad for your health.
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Nick on his way up (he made himself comfy as I took the pic...taking him off belay without telling him would have been uhmmm, rude).
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Some Lichen.
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The views were spectacular, for sure.
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Relaxing.
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On the way up the "nose" there, a slightly inverted 5.10b in places. It was sort of a bitch, frankly.
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Higher & higher...
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Don't trip.
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Some islands off the coast.
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Preparations for "Tee-Crack."
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The intrepid explorers.
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Beautiful sunset!
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bmwman91
01-09-2007, 02:03 AM
Nick dancing in front of the offshore oil rigs. Gatta love the night-exposures.
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Our reward after a long day of climbing. Mmmm, expensive margaritas.
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Slacklining the next day. Nick up at it.
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Me with my cool-guy shades.
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Master say, man who stand on toilet is high on pot.
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WHOA & stuff.
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I have dirty feet.
http://www.e30tuner.com/adventure/images/sbtrip010507/sbtrip37.jpg

So that was our weekend. I hope you enjoyed the story. This was a badly needed respite after slaving over a MAF conversion that ended up not doing much on the dyno. Soon, back to school for my last semester of Mech Engineering...the internship I have been on the past 7 months has been fun, but I am ready to go back and finish up!

///Motorsport
02-07-2007, 02:12 PM
My computer didn't have much service so I didn't see all of the pictures, but I also visit SB, a few times a year.

Gibraltar is a sick driving road! I have hiked in that area and mobbed my 1992 saab 900 S around Santa Barbara and Gibraltar was just one of many awesome roads in the area, some very scary, thin and windy. Lots of roads off of 154 and east into the hills are just awesome.

Anyways, looked fun! We should organize a day to just drive around, eat, chill by the beach and then party m42 meet. :cool:

dude8383
02-07-2007, 03:27 PM
jealous of your weather!

i gotta get around to rock climbing already...looks like a lot of fun.

i've done wall climbing but nothing compares to touching and feeling out spots on real rocks.

Wizard
02-07-2007, 03:39 PM
No rocks in Florida but we do have Cabo....lol...Been drinking that stuff for almost 10 years...

Great pics....

///Motorsport
02-08-2007, 11:55 AM
"some lichen"

that must be the funniest post all week.