Up and down!

Spent some time in Vancouver with codys hockey team! Two times in Canada within 4 months. Little less snow this time around.

This is Big Doug, 900 year old tree was about 200 ft tall.
Capilano Suspension bridge, 230' across and a long ways down!! And very shaky going across. Good thing im not afraid of heights.


Cleveland Dam

So, i didnt do very good on the hockey pics

Pike place market


Back to biking, t.i.t.s. ride at 3 sisters it was one week ago that i rode and it was 3 sis. This one week between rides has got to stop! Just get to feeling good, then get lazy and have to work extra hard to keep up with the crew!

Here's funrover gettin it done on some rocks on dedisse

Nice to know who your friends are!


Time to get back into shape! No excuses

New bikes are sweeet!

Nope, i didnt get a new bike but take the bars off, grease. Install new bottom bracket, put new brake pads on and my bike is oh so quiet and smooth. Ive had a bar creak for about oh, 4 years. no more! Its stealthy other than my hard breathing!

No ask lubes what a new bike is like. He rolled out "high ho silver" today



Yes that is a 29er Lubes is just a big ol boy. Spike laying down the over/ under on when this frame snaps.

Snap?? why do you ask that?

" Seriously, once we crest that ridge the rest of the day is all downhill, no shit! "

Ran into ed and jj on the CT

Sean - why do my cranks feel wierd?
ON the way to the lost creek wilderness via the LEGAL rolling creek tr. up to the boundary







last one is dedisse from last week


Enjoy the world!

Lotb and some sisters

Hit up lair o bear on tuesday with lubes and we ran into too many toyz at the start. He geared up and joined us. He does not have much to say to me. Once we started climbing we parted ways and lubes and i stomped that climb like a bad habit! I pushed beyond the pain in some areas instead of giving in. It is slowly coming back and these climbs are helping. Once up top the winds picked up and clouds were moving in fast.

Never did see scott again, i guess he came up and bombed back down. All that suspension would probably be pretty fun! I hit the rock section and i froze up, dammit i dont get it. I have rode that section a bunch of times but was not feeling it. It is all in my head and i just need to ride that shit!

Thursday was a sublime ride with tacky trails at 3 sisters. Put foot down twice on sisters descent made the hard right by the rock that has pestered me the last few times.

Bike is ready for some new pads and bb is making some noise and getting some slop. Pads in and waiting for the bb to come in.

ahhh! Thats what im talkin about!

Finally getting over the crud! I was not bailing today! Not totally over it , but im over it!
Today was Jeremy's little plan, But we were just up there to ride a normal ride. Although i was tempted to give it a go.
Met up with Michael (velocipede Jockey) and Lubes We got off to a normal start time of 8:00 It was a bit chilly but we managed.

Ran into AV boy and he was looking strong, he had a bit of an early start then not long after ran into jeremy at about the 27 mile mark of his route of some 80 odd miles. You can read more here of the: first annual Spring Buffalo Creek Spiderweb Classic! We made it out to chair rocks today that had been foiled the two previous times due to weather.
Chair rocks
Kitty is looking really nice!

Down with the sickness

No this is not a sweet vid with some Disturbed playing! wish it was.

4:20 ride and t.i.t.s. ride last week was it for me. My lack of energy and muscles shutting down was the sign of things to come. Had a bigger ride planned for thurs. nite but some wet snow moving in put a damper on things and we all agreed to head down shinglemill. Still knocked out a 26 mile out and back with some nice kitty involved!

Spent the weekend lying around watched a few movies and pretty much was a big grump. Both kids had the same thing so we all battled! Had planned on meeting at bc on sun. morning and i bailed on that.

Back to work today in evergreen and no bike. tomorrow though.......hmmmm......

Some random pics from past few weeks

These were my bunk mates for the 6th grade outdoor lab trip few weeks ago.




Getting their survival skills going


The Astronomy talk at outdoor lab is always very cool with great hubble pics as well!


My sons new favorite thing was in the boulder house! Now he's scouting out lines we could build in the house including an inverted section!



Low repel is always a challenge taking that first step back and trusting.
BC is finally becoming more rideable after a seemingly long winter up there! Yes it is greening up and the trails are in amazing shape!
from our t.i.t.s. ride last week
Build day on the double black diamond trial includes several drops like this one we were working on.
This mess was had after some of our trail crew leaders wanted to launch a boulder off the side of the mtn and hopefully have it fall into place where we could use it. Problem is this granite just breaks apart and makes a clusterfuck mess! After removing most of the boulders we started to gain some ground just in time for the day to near an end. This section was a hard one to be assigned to. There are many build days to get back and finish it on. Might be on a crew or someone else may take it on and come up with more than we could.

looking better already

Dave was testing out their section they worked on it was looking pretty damn good and he made it look way easier than it was!

Some 4:20 action at 3 sisters yesterday green trees, green snacks and nice and tacky trails!

Spring is full on i believe

Have some work to be done in the next couple months.

including trail work on GM on the box o rox section. work in general is piling up and that is a good thing right now.

Have some plans for camping alot this summer

rode GM last week for a night ride and then a monday ride was headed to bc but other plans sent me to green mountain instead for a shorter afternoon.

Spent last week up at Id Ra Ha Je mountain lab school with my son and his 6th grade class. I was the only dad who bunked/chaperoned the 7 boys and was a great experience ( went with katelyn's class a few years back) and yes it snowed again not 4feet but it snowed.

Was a great time watching these kids who hardly ever get to the mountains learn some basics of outdoors and challenge themselves! Got to do some repelling, bouldering, challenge course, riflery, and archery. As well as night hikes and devotion time.

Pics to follow-

Today was spent riding BC finally some dry trail and a beautiful day! Blue skies, 29 to start but warmed up quickly! Very quickly. Rode with Jerry(canyonrat) and sean(av boy) and although we said would be a casual ride it felt like the pace was a bit higher, and it felt good! Maybe a thurs. night t.i.t.s. ride up thata way this week.