Time to venture out to the Desert

Well, It's been an unusually cold and gloomy winter here in Colorado but spring is definitely in the air. We've had a couple big dumps of heavy wet snow in the last week but sunny 60 deg days are here. I made my first trip out to Indian creek last weekend to meet up with some frinds I haven't seen much lately. Sandy came along too despite having foot surgery several weeks ago to enjoy the warm desert air.

We awoke Friday morning to near blizzard conditions here along the Front Range. I'm thinking, great, there goes the weekend... I did a quick check of the weather along I-70 and noticed things looked much better once over the "divide". Go west we did! Once in Siverthorne, the weather improved greatly and continued on that trend the rest of the way thru Colorado.

Sunny skies greeted us in Utah and little if any snow was on the ground. Steven and Carrie were literally right behind us as we departed I-70 and continued south along Hwy 191 into Moab. Jay, Mary and Bob were a couple hours behind leaving Aspen and rolled into Indian creek close to midnight.

We awoke to a beautiful morning and climbed at Scarface Wall all day. I was able to get a few good pictures!


Bob on Comic Relief 5.12- Scarface Wall


Bob takes the ride on Comic Relief!


Jay plugging in gear before launching into the crux of Comic Relief.


Jay goin' big on Comic Relief.


Mary giving Comic Relief a TR burn 4 months pregnant!!


Carrie on Battle of the Bulge 5.11


Carrie gettin' after it.


Steven on the direct start to Battle of the Bulge 5.11.


Steven cruxing on Digital Readout 5.12


Josh Janes on Desert Vuarnet 5.12-


Ah... Life is good.

Thrasher!!!!

Well, here's a change of pace. After doing more research and talking to Nikon owners, I decided to upgrade to the D90 yesterday. I bought the D5000 about a month ago but for some reason continued to research other models. I have a bad habit of doing this. Luckily, the shop I bought the D5000 from gladly allowed me to return it for the higher end D90. The biggest difference between the two was that the D5000 lacked the auto focusing motor in the body. The D90 has this motor built into the body allowing one to use any Nikon lens. The lack of this AF motor in the D5000 would have limited which lenses I could use. I think I made the right choice.

So, I took the new camera for a test drive today at a skate park near Coors field in downtown Denver to see just how fast it can shoot. 4.5 frames per second is fast! I actually had a lot of fun!

Check em out!