Rainy Days

The last day of Whistler's regular season was today. I didn't go up because my ribs are still pretty bad. I would have been more bummed, but I rode an amazing number of days this season. Last night we had a bonfire and camped out at my friend Claude's house which is a converted caboose. Claude's roommate and new Grill employee M.C.'s dad just happens to own the Scandinave Spa, so uh...ya, we got to spend today at the spa for free.

Adam. Our tent not pictured.

Alana. Hungover.

Claude brought this new kitten Gypsy back from Montreal.  

Gypsy is rad.

Free Pass.

Each building is a large steam room, sauna, or solarium with five differing pools. NBD.

Me and Dane felt just a little out of place.

Louie T killing it.

I went on a solo hike to avoid snowboarding a couple of days ago. 

There's plenty of snow in the park, but the ride out is becoming more non-existent everyday. The mountain closes for the regular season Monday and I'm actually taking the weekend off....well actually my ribs are preventing me from going up the hill this weekend. So Monday will be it! I will have ridden 90 days this regular season and will be breaking 100 riding the glacier. Pretty awesome.

 Walking down to the lift from Upper Base 2 parking lot.

 Black Bear!

Downloading.

Another Black Bear!

The snow season is coming to a close next Monday, which will excitedly turn into backpacking adventures season.

 Some people hang pictures on their walls...

Can never have enough Adventure Packs.

The first bonfire at our house.

Big Gulps Hey

Took some rainy day laps with Ben Turner today for his last runs of the year. Great stuff. Apres, now work.

Tourist Pose.

Back 5....Thanks to PatRick for taking this. 

Bungee video coming to the surface.

 

Patrick killing the kink.

Wiffle Golfin'.

Old photo.

 

Tattoo Convention Vid

So when I was getting my tattoo at the convention, a reporter for some Canadian news channel was doing a special and interviewed my artist. I found the video yesterday on youtube and clipped his interview out. Pretty random. Oh and it's May Long Weekend up here. F'in crazy. All sorts of people come to whistler JUST to party. There's gang units and flood lights everywhere. Apparently this weekend is notorious for fights and stabbings. People watching is amazing though. NINE DAYS LEFT OF RIDING!



Rad Days

Had my first day of filming yesterday. We went up expecting subpar icy conditions because it was cold up on the hill...It ended up being just another rad day. I was supposed to film my friend Dane, but his ski boot broke so he just filmed me for a couple hours....Awesome. Here's some video I turned into stills.

 Back 5.

 Blunt.

 Front 3 Melon.

 Tail on the hip.

 Front Board.

StaleFish.

Dane kills it. Backflip out of the pipe.

Lost Lakin'

Lost Lake is a fifteen minute walk from my house.

Some of the last bit of snow left in the valley.

Catching minnows.

Sock-Koozie.

Hard. Craig and Pat Rick.

Alexa and Kelsey. Shred Break.

A couple of the bigger jumps opened to the public. Oh man are they fun...

Blah Blah Blah

Nothing really new going on. Been working mass amounts of hours and snowboarding everyday. It's been crazy hot up here the last few days. Trying to get 100 days of riding in. So awesome.

Oh and allergy season is begginning to kick my ass as usual. Nothing better than feeling like your eyes are constantly on fire.

My friend Robjyn Taylor caught from the lift. Back 3...Jumps are big.

This is what 8PM looks like now... 

This is what 930PM looks like...Endless Possibilities.

Icy park conditions so we hung out near a jump to watch people flail.



Black clothes make for crap photos with trees in the background. I like black.



Played some wiffle golf in the forest after our ice laps. Pat Rick and Brittany.



The Daily

Only three weeks left till the mountain closes...Don't worry though....the glacier opens back up after a  three week hiatus for a month.

Mountain biking. Such a tiring, fun, adrenaline, scary, sport. Eric. Ronnie. Dan.

I definitely crashed already. One wrong move going downhill and kablowy.

Alexa and her sister Lauren.

All you can eat off of the menu at Nagomi sushi...$30 a person...One and a half hour time limit...No food left behind....Between 4 people we racked up a $330 bill. Not just your average sushi either...mmmmm.

Spring Park

Yup...Spring Park is in full slushified effect. Just had two awesome days of sunny riding followed by pretty great hang out sessions. It doesn't actually get dark here until about 8 o'clock, so the potential to do fun stuff is almost endless. Weather forecast = sun sun sun.

 Sunny Spring Park...Seriously Love This Shit.

Lost Lake. Good People/Good Times. 

Photo Dump From This Week

I've been working long days this week between my normal serving shifts and doing renovations for work. Hopefully all this work will let me bank some cash to have fun later traveling. I only went snowboarding one day this week due to all the working and shitty weather. But hey...I WENT snowboarding this week! I bought some new running kicks today to prepare for a 10k run at the end of the month and I know it's supposed to be a fun run, but I just want to compete and beat people. Tomorrow is supposed to bring a string of sunny days, so that only means one thing....SUNNY SHRED DAYS IN THE PARK!!!

Pat Ricks BirthdayCrew.

Wednesday was Patrick from work's birthday so we went up for some laps. Patrick.

BirthdayCrew minus a few dudes.

The other night I worked from 11PM till 7AM and refinishing these tables was all I knew till the sun came up.

 I organized all the servers and bartenders at work to put money in on a gift for our bussers Yoshi and Yukiko who kill it all day everyday.  Our manager told Yoshi(pictured) there was a problem with the toilet and she needed to fix it....little did she know we were in the there waiting to give her her gift.

 I was in early the other day doing more renovations and Felix decided to buy and cook ingridients from the store to make breakfast steak sandwiches. SO GOOD!

Went mountain biking for the first real time with Craig today around Lost Lake behind my house. It was so badass! I had no idea how fun and exhilerating it was and I wasn't even using the best bike for the job.

 Craig and Lost Lake.

Sun setting on Lost Lake.