outlive the bastards

"So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards." - Edward Abbey

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Eastern Sierra’s | California 395

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Beautiful buurrrrr

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Jim said, “I think people resist freedom because they’re afraid of the unknown. But that unknown was once very well known - its where our souls belong. The only solution is to confront them - confront yourself - with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You ARE free.” I asked what he meant by “freedom.” He said, “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade your senses for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first. You can take away a man’s political freedom and you won’t hurt him - unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him.

Quote from Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone

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Stove cooking

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Signage for the new Blue House Farm Farmstand. San Gregorio, CA

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Horses and Mt. Whitney. HWY 395.

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People keep asking what the best part of the Grand Canyon trip was. Not even a glimpse or one check of those stupid little screens we all stare at for 21 days ranked pretty high up there. Still no real answer though. It was all amazing. 

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The mysterious case of buoy #1121  

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Prototyping bags, living on a farm. Life is damn good. 

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I made it a point to journal daily on the Grand Canyon. 3 weeks of thoughts and sketches.

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Where the waters of Havasupai meet the Colorado River

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Evening sets

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Found my first (and only!) set of blueprints I made in a drafting course circa 2004. I'm thankful computers didn't rule the world when I started college.

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Monday morning breakfast. Making more time to spend with friends. Everything on the plate from this farm or a friends farm.

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Stoked on my new backpack by KUIU. The company makes hyper lite hunting gear and is vertically integrated meaning you can only buy product directly through them. This allows less mark up for the customer and more time and money put into R+D. The pack system has a carbon fiber frame that completely removes from the bag so you can swap out different size packs for different needs. The frame can also be adjusted from the pack but not removed creating space to carry say a deer or logs or a skateboard?? I especially like the simple color options: camo or sage.

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Feeling pretty damn grateful these days. Living walking distance to this beach. Many times I want to pick up and leave but then it hits me that this might just be it.

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Occidental, CA over Easter weekend