The Broadbent Family...

Going through some old photos, I came cross this one which I took while on a cruise to Ensenada. This was taken from my window when I awoke in the morning...

Hope everyone has a happy and safe Labor day weekend.

Random photo from a small village in the mountains of Japan...

(Sorry about the links getting in the way, its either smaller photos or dealing with the text. Unless someone knows how to reformat the blog page better than I do??)




Hope everyone has a great day!

Despite going back to school last week was pretty good. Wednesday I spent the day at the beach in La Jolla kayaking, snorkeling and working on my sunburn. I knew I should have put sunscreen on. Luckily its not too bad and I am not suffering anymore until I get diagnosed with skin cancer in 15 years from now. The water was so warm, and was crystal clear too. Seals, tiger sharks, and lots of fish to be seen. The new position at work makes time fly by when I'm working so that's good too. :) I am working on trying to get my fall photography stuff going too so as always, Im keepin busy! Anyway, I wish I had something more to write, but this is all I want to have publicly known I suppose. Here are a couple pics from La Jolla last week.

Well a couple of days ago I babysat my nieces and my nephew. We always have fun as they are definitely a unique fun loving bunch! My nephew is really into computer games and Wii but I was able to tear him away for a lil bit so we could all go to the park. I decided that I should bring the camera since I havn't been able to shoot much lately. Anyhow here are some shots...

The Bunch


Aeralyn


Aeralyn


Aspen


Kanyon

I had a blast! It was so much fun and the sights were incredible. Anyhow, I'm not that great at writing, so I'll try and let the photos say what I can't. P.S. I haven't cropped the photos so a lot of them are probably tilted and a little out of whack.
























Below is the pass where I thought I was going to fall 12,300 feet to my death... I know it doesn't look bad (the incline was roughly 75-80 degrees), but any seasoned rock climber will tell you, you don't know how bad the incline is until you rub noses with it and go cheek to cheek. The trail was impassable so we were forced to climb the last 100 vertical feet or so...











Wow, that's a lot of photos so if your not on a decent high speed line then I probably just froze your computer. Sorry, I hope you saved your work. :)

-Ellis

Well it has been quite a while since I have blogged anything. To be honest, I almost forgot about it. Anyway, I have been pretty busy and am in the middle of summer school right now. I got a 5 day break before I started, so I havnt really done anything exciting this summer so far. Despite having to work my birthday was good and fun too.

I am excited for my lil mini vacation next week. I am going to the Sierra's and I will be going on my longest backpacking trip to date, 5 days. I am so excited! I have been lookng at my gear today trying to decide what to bring and what to leave to keep my pack weight down. Next I will decide my meals and food and then Ill pack it all in and see where my pack weight is. I know this sounds easy, but considering you do not want to carry extra weight, you want to be prepared for adverse weather and other stuff. Trying to fit it in your bag and keep weight down becomes quite a science or scrutinizing task. More or less you basically have to give up creature comforts in order to save weight, and everyone is different on what they're willing to give up. Anyway, my pack weight is at about 27lbs (im definitely not an ultralight guy) right now before food and water (which is very heavy). If possible id like to get it to 25 lbs before food and water.

Well I am off to look at my food options...
-Ellis