2011: First Post

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
-Anonymous

Quick Points
-It’s the beginning to the end of my college years
-Update
-Little random adventures
-My ‘plan’ after college

Let the countdown begin… It hit me recently that I will no longer be a student at Cal Poly soon. I have three more classes left and then I’ll be an alumnus! (How exciting) My apologies for not updating this photojournal, though. Last quarter, I maintained three wordpresses so that would be pretty insane to take this one on too (not to mention that I had 19 units last quarter). I decided to get back on this site after seeing that people actually do visit this site and comment. (Thanks, guys!)

Check out my climbing blog. It focuses on climbing in the Central Coast, mainly bouldering.

Update, Update, Update… Since the last time I’ve posted an entry on here, I’ve done quite a few things:

1. Worked with singer-songwriter Trevor Hall (created a short promotional video for his upcoming album). He came to Poly and stayed at my house. It was a lot of fun and now he’s back from India finishing up his album. It should be out in a few months.
2. Doing more long-boarding. I’m taking on some bigger hills and gettin’ the hang of carving! If anyone has a skateboard or any other board, let me know and I’d be down to skate with you. Avila is my favorite place to be.
3. More climbing, of course, and I top-roped outside for the first time. Oh yeah, and I did my first crack climb! I did Flakes to Fresno at Bishops Peak around sunset time. Yeah, it was dangerous to climb in the dark, but it was absolutely perfect: beautiful sunset, warm outside, first top-rope route that happens to be a crack climb, and being with someone I adore.
4. Which leads me to my next point… I am with someone who makes me happy. I am lucky. Things are great, almost too perfect. (Kinda scares me) I’ll leave it at that.
5. Yoga–exercising mind and body. I’m continuing to do this activity. I had the privilege to work with photographer, Sara Tollefson, and we did a quick yoga photo shoot.
6. Got a bike, finally. Vintage Peugot. A red beauty. I need to do some work on her though. I rode my bike to SLO OP and the chain went off the track five times.
7. Highlining and slacklining continues. I think I’m going to get some new webbing for my slackline kit.

*Check out more pictures of one of my random adventures to Ventura.

A day in Ventura

Santa Barbara bouldering (climber: Nina Houts)

SLO Highlining on Madonna Mountain

 

Charlie

On the way to Venice, CA.

Winter Break 2010

Sara Tollefson Photography

My longboarding buddy, Sara.

SLO sunset

Climbing at Bishops Peak, SLO

me and Casey

Little Random Adventures… Went to Squaw Valley, going to Yosemite in March, hopefully also in April (for my 23rd birthday), Bishops, CA for bouldering and camping, Big Sur…

Squaw Valley, Winter 2010

The big “plan” after college… I will be in SLO for a few more months after I graduate. I am not sure how long I will be in SLO, but I plan to take up an internship here over the summer and figure things out from there. I am interested in doing videos for All Out Events too. I will also continue to search for a PR agency that has outdoor clients (PrAna, Evolv, REI, Patagonia), but I need to decide if I really want to move out of state to start my new stage in life with new people and such. It’s such a big decision to make and I’m not sure if I’m ready to make that commitment yet. (I guess I’ll just focus on school and graduating first before I undertake any other project.)

Overall, everything has been great. I’ve met some amazing people and I am very grateful for all these opportunities.

Videos! Videos! Videos!
Check out some of the videos I made for my other blog, Central Coast Climbing.

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~ by Lauren Gan on February 13, 2011.