California - Skiing the 4th of July Weekend - Monday

The last day of the ski season.

Me at the top of Mammoth. During the winter, this sign can be completely buried with snow

There was still a small terrain park

4 rails and a medium kicker with a smaller kicker next to it

This photo is just sad. It's the last day for skiing and these guys would rather work on their tan. Even worse is where's the ladies?

At the end of the day everyone gathers at the top of the mountain for for an end of the year party/snowball fight.

Approaching the top of the mountain at the end of the day. The crowd is attacking the gondolas with snowballs

The crowd gathering at the top of the mountain for a season end party/snowball fight

Snowball fight in slow motion

After skiing I went for a soak in one of the natural hot springs around Mammoth

California - Skiing the 4th of July Weekend - Sunday

Happy 4th of July!

I after returning from Canada I decided to go up to Mammoth Mountain for their last weekend of skiing for the season. I was originally planning to drive up Saturday so that I could ski Sunday and Monday, but I was still tired from my Canada trip so I decided to go to stay in LA on Saturday and then get up early Sunday morning and make the drive up to Mammoth. Sunday morning I was still moving a bit slowly and didn't get on the road until 5:30. But I still managed to get to Mammoth and hit the slopes by 11:00 for a couple hours of skiing.

It was amazing how much snow had melted since I was here two weeks ago. The bottom of the mountain was pretty much all melted with only small snow paths made by the snowcats to get to the lift. But once you got to the top of the mountain there was quite a bit of snow. There were two chairlifts and the gondola running.

July 4th and still skiing

There was lots of snow on top of the mountain, but getting to the bottom was a little trickier

I think this guy made a wrong turn and ran out snow

Bikinis and Bikes

This guy was having a good time

Lately I've been trying to shoot time lapse movies of the stars. So after skiing I decided to find a good location where I could camp out and set my camera up. I ended finding a spot in the mountains above Bishop that gave me a nice view of the Owens Valley, Bishop and the Sierra Nevada mountains.

My camp for the night

The stars above Bishop

California - Glen Helen USGP

California - Mammoth Mountain

This last weekend I went to Mammoth Mountain for a couple of days of skiing. All of the rain that Los Angeles was getting hit Mammoth as a ton of fresh snow. You can see how much snow fell on my truck just in the time I was skiing.

Los Angeles - Supercross

I went to the first Supercross of the season last night in Anaheim.

James Stewart chasing Ryan Dungey

While I was there I tried shooting some slow-motion footage using my Casio EX-FC100 camera. This is James Stewart chasing Ryan Dungey about half a lap before Stewart makes the pass to move into 1st place.

California - Yosemite in the Winter

California - Mono Lake

California - Death Valley

Los Angeles - Halloween Pumpkins

Every year I like to carve a couple of pumpkins for Halloween, here's my two pumpkins from this year.

Los Angeles - My Halloween Costume

My Halloween Costume.

Los Angeles - Pumpkin Time Lapse

How to carve two Halloween pumpkins in 20 seconds. Actually this is a time lapse of me carving my Halloween pumpkins. In real time it took about 2 hours to clean and carve the two pumpkins.

California - Halloween in West Hollywood

The West Hollywood Halloween Carnival is supposed to be the largest Halloween event in the the country with over 400,000 people attending. I've wanted to go the last couple of years, but this was the first year that I actually went. A section of Santa Monica Blvd. is closed for the event and stages and food vendors are set up. The event was a lot of fun, the stages had a variety of different bands and performers. But the reason most people go it to see all of the other people in strange costumes. Here's a bunch of photo I took of some of the interesting costumes.