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Jon Scott (left) and Jason Ulibarri (right) during a San Francisquito Creek cleanup. Jason didn’t have a kayak or boat so he improvised. Credit: Peter Drekmeier / Bay Area Action Archives

Bio

Jason was a longtime BAA volunteer and part of the heralded but secretive Six Pack.

In 1998 he started the AdventureScapes project, becoming a BAA employee.

In July 1999 Jason responded to one of the internet’s constants: a spammy email “Know your friends” quiz:

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Spam from your friends = good spam.

Here’s what you're supposed to do... Copy this entire e-mail and change all the answers so they apply to you. Then send it to people you know, INCLUDING ME. You should get back a lot of e-mails and you’ll learn a lot about your friends that you maybe didn’t know. Please take 10 minutes of your day to do this fun little quiz.

1.) Name given at birth: Jason Ashley Ulibarri
2.) Nicknames: Ulibunny, jay, Sierra
3.) Favorite word(s): engaging
4.) Hometown: Moscow ID? Palo Alto?
5.) Current residence: Floating with the current
6.) Croutons or bacon bits: croutons
7.) Favorite salad dressing: Caesar
8.) Do you drink: Does the Pope shit in the woods?
9.) Have you had your appendix or tonsils removed? nope
10.) Shampoo or conditioner: rinse and repeat
11.) Have you ever gone skinny dipping? You all know this one.
12.) Favorite color: the multidimentional azure of the South Pacific
13.) Have you ever been convicted of a crime? No, wow.
14.) One pillow, two pillows, feathers? one
15.) Best on-line friends: I don’t do that much but lately it’s been js
16.) Pets: The moment I buy a house
17.) Favorite music: That’s like asking my favorite mood
18.) Dream car: electric porshe
19.) Type of car you now drive: 85 Toyota Minivan
20.) What was your first car: ’77 chevette
21.) Hobbies: jamming, biking, disk,
22.) Toothpaste: Tom’s propolis & myrrh
23.) Favorite food(s): my own spinach, ricotta and tomato
24.) Do you get along with your parents: I even party with them.
25.) Favorite town(s): Arcata CA, Shallow Alto, SF, Santa Cruz, Ubud in Bali
26.) Favorite ice cream flavor: chocolate chip cookie dough
27.) Favorite drink (non-alcoholic): That green Odwalla
28.) Favorite type of family game to play: Ten up ten down, sets and runs
29.) Adidas, Nike or Reebok: (formerly) Nike, before the news broke
30.) Favorite websites: http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus/  check it out
31.) Favorite perfume/cologne: natural excitement
32.) Favorite subject in school: journalism, political history, English
33.) Least favorite subject in school: philosophy
34.) Favorite TV show(s): Simpsons, South Park
35.) Favorite movies you have seen recently: Pleasantville, Austin Powers
36.) Favorite movie of all time: Brazil
37.) Favorite alcoholic drink: margarita, you knew that too didn’t you?
38.) Favorite sport to watch: baseball
39.) Most embarrassing/humiliating moment: I’m a major leaguer at this; I don’t give this out for free
40.) Craziest or silliest thing you have ever done: Again, there are so many choices here that I should ask you folks what's your favorite silly memory of me. Maybe we should all do this over a beer.
41.) What do you look for in the opposite sex: Apparently, all the wrong things
42.) Do you make fun of people? less and less ever day
43.) Do you remember your first kiss? Oh yah. Roxanne in 5th grade
44.) Do you keep in touch with high school friends? Hi, guys.
45.) Anything “different” about you? Oh, Christ.
46.) Say one nice thing about the person who sent you this e-mail: Mark’s a great designer and activist (damn, that’s two things)
47.) Person you sent this to who is least likely to respond: Erik or Greg
48.) Person you sent this to who is most likely to respond: Tex, he’ll like this

You're done!! Now pass it on. Hopefully filling this out and passing it along was not the most embarrassing thing in your life!

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Jason died in 2019.

Jason Ulibarri

Nicknames
Ulibunny, Jay, Sierra
Positions
Volunteer, AdventureScapes project leader
History Project Donations (2025)