Jiangmen City and Zhuhai

After Hong Kong, we took the ferry to Jiangmen City to see our friend Jason and his wife Shelly. They took us on a hike up through a waterway to a peak overlooking town. Despite all our mileage and fancy Vibram hiking sandals, they both smoked us to the top in their flip-flops..

Guangdong province is where we ate some of the rawest meals of our trip. Lots of dishes with legs and tentacles and heads. Jason and Shelly told us that Jiangmen City is a famous place to eat dog, and offered us all of the 'special' crawfish from the bowl that were filled with eggs. Odie, we are staying true to our promise not to eat the dog.

On Monday we caught a ride to the BD factory in Zhuhai with Jason to check out the factory/global DC and see some good friends. Sadly we took no pictures, but the place is looking tight and has come a long way in a few short years. We had one more meal with Geoff and Joe Smith (in town from SLC) and company, at a place that Geoff assured us was a bit on the wilder side, then a night at the BD Zhuhai apartment, and we were headed inland.

Hong Kong

We landed in Hong Kong and met up with Corey for a cup of coffee: thanks for the joe, core-shot. Hong Kong is a crazy modern city, but serves as an excellent transition into China. Just enough China to be confounding, but English everywhere so it's easy to navigate.


Ryan and Andy let us stay at the BD apartment, which made our stay here possible. Thanks dudes.

We did some Serious Hiking around the area, and also checked out the sights


Big Buddha
And a small Lotus Flower goddess.

And finally the weather cleared and I got the chance to fly. There are tons of paragliding sights surrounding Hong Kong, this was a soaring zone near the ocean. The wind was cross, so I mostly kited and hung out..

Catch up from Kathmandu

For whatever reason, our connection stopped working in Chengdu and we were stopped short in the middle of the post. So anyway, we have since traveled 10 days through Tibet to Kathmandu in Nepal. The internet cafe here has nice computers and a fast connection, so we're gonna try again to go retro-active.

More pictures from the summer in Idaho:

River tripping with then-bride-to-be-Chef-Master-Rink
Odie fetches the biggest sticks!
Red Fish Lake
If you're still paddling, you're between swims. Booty frequency: decreasing.

Caroline hiking the clean-up lap, Main Salmon

Floating, Main Salmon
Munter-Rinck Wedding Party, Willy trying out the S.U.P. seal-launch with a Ry-Guy assertive assist

At the put-in for the bachelor party North Fork Lap.

Groom North Fork master Henry Munter.

After the wedding, we caught a ride to Salt Lake, soared the South Side familiarizing with the Gin Verso (travel harness), protected the reserve from the monsters while Jonathon re-packed, purchased back-packs and last second supplies, and screached in to airport parking lot with seconds to spare.

Sorry Bob for parking your truck in No-mans land with the lights on..

Hello and welcome to our blog.

I recently left the coolest job in the world to go out in search of adventure with my girl Caroline. This blog is an attempt to answer 'why' to any who may be curious, show what we've been up to for friends and loved ones, and hopefully present an insightful word or image to anyone else who happens to come this way. May there be something of interest to anyone who chooses to keep reading.

Our intention was to keep this blog going all along, but we never got it off the ground before we left the states. We have since been travelling through rural/mountainous China with no computer so it has been difficult to make it happen. We're staying with Caroline's friend Taylor in Chengdu right now, boarding a train for Lhasa in a few hours, and playing catch-up as quickly as possible with his strong internet connection.

I left Salt Lake in July and headed for Idaho to meet up with Caroline and spend the summer getting strong. Between my summer pass at Sun Valley and hike-and-speedflying with the ever willing Ketchum boys, I was able to fly multiple times a day nearly all summer.