9 am, Sunday July 6th, 2008. Robbie Limacher and myself were in the car charging up Indy Pass to shralp this fun box somone left up there last week. The plan was to get a quick lil shred session in then go long board town, maybe hit the skate park and then watch some surf vids in the afternoon. Well, plans changed when we got to the top and there was no fun box to be found. Either the owner or the Forrest Service kifed it and left only the drop in and some tracks to show that it had indeed been there.

  So now what? Well, we looked around at the options. Mtn. Boy was filled in but the run out was bare and that meant about as much of a hike out as it would be in. 4th of july bowl had a very sketchy strip down the east side to another long muddy walk down and out to the road. So the only option was the north side of the road, up to Blu Mountain and back down to the car from there. I judged it to be about a 30 minute hike up and about 5 minutes down, but hey, we were already up there with our gear, and we wanted to shralp in July, so we started hiking, wearing shorts and T-shirts.

  The hike was pretty easy. we had to cross over some wet, marshy high alpine meadows and then up some boulder fields to access the "Glacier" but once we got up there, it was worth it. we stood around with the camera for a minute and then took turns dropping in.

 The snow was soft and sun kissed, stained brown from dust and dirt blowing in from below. It was all waved out from the sun melt action but it was slippery and cold so it was A-OK with us. Then it started to rain. Just a little. The clouds blew in kinda fast and we had to make our desent right then. I went first and recorded Robbie coming around the cornice, that dropped about 40 ft to rockfield. He made turns past me and then he took the camera pack and went down to take a few shots of my line.

 Nothing was too impressive or gnarley, but hey, its July and we are shralping so WTF...right? We found a little rock to bonk and a couple spots smooth enough to butter some lil flat land tricks and then we were back at the bottom walking to the whip.

 All said, it took 2.5 hours from the time we left my house till we were driving off the top of the pass. Well worth the bragging rights of getting at least one day in July. I got three days in June, and 7 in May (plus ten days of surf!)and before that, well the season was still on so we were charging pretty regulary.

 As I said before in the past blog- Im trying to get at least one day, one run, every month this year. So- now, with August and September looming ahead and promising to be the most challenging, ill keep you all posted on weather or not 12 months is acheivable with out too much work or ambition.

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JAF