Holcomb Big Bear Forest Trail run

This is the finish of a 15 mile trail race we did in Big Bear last month.
If the trail didn't kill you the altitude made sure you suffered!







Here I am with a fellow runner coming out of the forest to the finish.

3 Harbours Century ride

Here we are at the beginning of the 3 harbours Century road ride in Ventura. It's a 100 mile ride from Ventura to Santa Barbara, past 3 Harours and back.

Since it was the day after 4th of July, I thought I'd dress accordingly.

Heart in concert

Remember the group HEART???
Well now, you'd have to be a 70's and 80's kid...









We got to see the live at the date festival last week.








They don't quite look like this anymore, but they sound GREAT!!!!

Bob Hope Chrysler Classic

This January we were lucky to have the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic Golf tournament include our Golf course again.

We got to see a few celebrities like:

George Lopez


















Taylor Hicks



































Samuel L Jackson




































Michael Bolton
























Meatloaf! My favourite.

Here is Meatloaf with Alice Cooper! Rock on....

Here we have Luke Wilson

kyle maclachlan from "sex in the city"

kevin nealon

Kenny G

jummy fallon, anthony anderson and robert gamez (pro)

jimmy fallon

Big Bear (again-we know)

We're trying to milk every last bit of snow we can get out of the season. Our Snowboarding is just getting better and better.
It was pretty warm these past two days - check it out: Jacques is in a short sleeved shirt!

I was just having a BLAST!

It's just been great to learn something new and actually improve!!! Less bruises the second time around!

Mountain Bike excursion

So here we go again. On Thursday we tried some snowboarding, on Friday we did some skiing, on Saturday we did this mountainbike ride and the next day we ran the Palm Springs Half Marathon.

Our bodies felt like they went through a mincer!

Here we are with a few members of our mountainbike club at the top of Highway 74 and we're heading down as much single track as we can find for the next 7 odd hours......

Some of terrain was pretty tricky. These turns were even too tight for our experienced downhillers!

No lack of downhill or rocks....That's me heading down. I guess Jacques must trust my skills to be standing at the bottom of the trail with a camera....

Do ya see those little spots on the road - That would be our cycling buddies...

And we're getting closer to them..

What would a cycling expedition be without a flat!





I love this stuff!

With all that downhill, we had some short steep climbs just to spice up the day.

Just one mistake and you loose your line and it's so steep, there's no getting back on the bike.

Did I mention the little rain we had gave the cacti just enough energy to grow along the single track like crazy and shred all our legs and arms to pieces.

I'm still taking thorns out of my shins.

Here's our "lunch place". It used to be a place where Indians once migrated through. See that hole in the rock just to the left of the dude in the red shirt.

That was where they used to grind corn.

Grinding gears...

The rain and the rise in temperature we have now is turning our desert a shade of green.

This would be the river crossing that I decided to give a shot. It ended up banging up my only good knee. So I ended up running the Palm Springs Half marathon with two blue knees and cacti in my shins!

Remember the corn grinding tools I was talking about earlier. Well here's a close up!

Our first try at snowboarding in Big Bear (again)

We decided that snowboarding could not evade us any longer. So off to Big Bear we went....

We stayed in this really cute rustic cabin.

This would be my favourite part of the cabin - the TUB.

After all that beating we took with our tumbles in the snow, there's nothing better.... Well maybe the glass of Amarula afterwards......

Jacques had the camera, so I didn't get a chance to take a photo of him, but here I am.

It's the coolest thing. Soooooo much fun. Sooooo embarassing when you smash into the snow for the how-manyeth time.

Ahhh , what the hell! We all gotta start somewhere!

I look like a beginner....maybe because I am one?

Not gonna fall - not gonna fall......

Big Bear Skiing with Clark

Here we are again in Big Bear. We had our buddy Clark join us for the day!

Here's Clark and me heading for the slopes.

It was only Clark's second time on ski's and it ended up being a really successful day!