Roger Hsu's Blog

Originally posted to RohJuh.com on Oct 21, 2006. The last time Judy and went to Joe’s Valley, we weren’t able to spend enough time there. There’s so much good bouldering at Joe’s that several more trips there were easily justified. And the last two times we were in Moab, we didn’t get to ride the famous Porcupine Rim trail. A return trip to both destinations for some good bouldering and mountain biking was long overdue. Since St. George was on the way (Judy and I drove to Utah from Orange County after my mom’s funeral), we decided to meet up with Ryan and take a short detour to ride the very fun Gooseberry Mesa trail again. Although we did run into some inclement weather, we generally had nice, sunny weather for the majority of the trip. During our rainy day in Moab, we killed time by enjoying the all-around preferred Moab pastime of… bowling! Ryan, Judy, and I set out on a mission to prove that a career with the PBA was unlikely to be in our futures. We were unquestionably successf...

Originally posted to RohJuh.com on Oct 1, 2006. Judy and I headed up to Tahoe this weekend for some bouldering and mountain biking. Our plan was to boulder at the Grouse Slabs on Saturday and then ride the Emigrant Trail on Sunday. Unfortunately, we got kind of a late start to Tahoe on Saturday and then spent a bit too much time trying to find the Grouse Slabs boulders. As a result, we were only able to boulder for a few hours and the lone pic above is the only shot of actual climbing that I managed to get. After an evening at the Donner Memorial State Park campground, we headed for the Emigrant Trail the next day. Everything we read indicated that this was a really fun trail consisting almost entirely of rolling singletrack. We were definitely not disappointed and were in fact surprised at how few people we ran into. Although I had hoped to get more bouldering in, it was nevertheless a fun weekend trip and hopefully decent preparation for our upcoming trip to Joe’s Valley and Moab....