January in J Tree (2025)

Trip 1:

A trip to escape the smoke in LA

Breakfast and and breaking

Selfie with the Moon and Montsy

I lied about taking this. I took the picture, walked over, held her, and she asked me if I was taking a picture. I said no because I think that the question was actually about weather I did that because I was taking the picture. I was going to hold her and look at the stars no matter what. (We stood there until we got cold)(She thinks the picture is cute)

It was hard not to believe this wasn't god on this bright moon-lit night. Who’s to say it wasn't. Ive never seen a more beautiful moon, casting more beautiful shadows, on a more beautiful dried up ocean floor.

A short thing with the videos we took on this little trip.

Trip 2:

A trip to listen in the desert

The approach

I havent had seats in my car since highschool. A good reason to put them in

Clouds and tint Ankha took

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The accent

A piece of land in 29 palms we drove off road to get To soak in as much of the sunset as possible. We were like solar sponges. Bless the sun and bless all of our cameras. So awesome.

The photos..

and the photographer.

How I look at Montserrat.

How it looks to look at Montserrat.

Me showing T, showing Ari, showing (a) piece of dirt.

chuck, chuck back. wrestle.

I love my car,

b/c I love where it takes me.

us.

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Love this picture, Ankha took it. I was staring at the color in her face under her eyes for minutes.

The crux

Surfing, she tried to kill me but I’ve fought tougher waves.

Somehow the planets were aligned on this night. When we could see all of them. Glowing all different colors

The ridge

We didn't know weather or not we were going to go to this show in the painted canyon but we needed dinner first so we did that.

They all walked in a single file line, stopped in a single file line, then looked at the cheeses in a single file line. I was freaking out. I just had a dream about a group of cool dudes who did this. then they did this. it was really funny.

The dinner. Strange red curry. Nourishing

fit check.

←This was about the time we decided not to go to the show that we kind of came to the desert for. We still had a great time.

Freaking out over what we saw in this bath.. what do you see. I saw a little alien dude dancing

T putting out a fire I made.

The summit

What I wanted to do the most; climb. We made it just far enough to get to these rocks before my car broke down. Its never broke down before. But it broke down in the middle of the park. With four other people. It was the bearing for the radiator fan. It was a $700 fix. But i would pay that to do this trip all over again.

Prep

cool crack. not rated. j tree so humbling

The descent:

We couldn't all fit in the tow truck so guy told us to pack in to the car and he’d take us back to LA as long as we were sneaky. Thanks to M’s stepdads AAA and my pops with Satellite texting.

We had a great time

Homie was an expert

Dad bought us Chinese food when we got back. So sweet. Such a nice trip. I love you guys, WLTL.