Van Visit 2.0

I spent the day cruisin Vancouver solo by bicycle(Thanks to Cory). It's the best way to check out a new city. The weather was kind of iffy so it kept a lot of popularized places rather quite, which was great for me. I probably rode for about 5 hours and countless km's getting to where I wanted to go as well as getting lost a few times. Thanks to Ben Turner for letting me crash at his awesome place downtown. After riding all day, I decided to surprise my Aunt at her hotel who is visiting Van for a conference. We met up with Ben Turner later and went to dinner at the Flying Pig in Yale Town for super good eats. Heading back up to Whistler with my Aunt tomorrow.

Sea Wall.

 Granville Island Marketplace.

View from Granville Island lunch spot.

Vancouver Visit

I hitched down to Vancouver Saturday night to hang out with the awesome Cory Granfield. It only took me two rides and about two hours again...getting pretty lucky with the hitch-hiking. Anyway, I show up to Cory's house around nine and he offers to take me to one of three parties...motorcycle party, tattoo party, or fixie race and possible late night punk rock show. What ensued was a really rad night of drinking, bike riding, new people, bike riding and too many good times. We ended up doing it all. And actually, we showed up to the punk rock venue at around 2:30 in the morning and there wasn't much of a crowd so we hung out for a short bit and headed home. My hand was pretty beat by this point. The next day we obviously slept in a bit before heading out for breakfast and crabbing with Ben Turner and Cory's Lady Friend Tarrin. We went to a pier in Jericho Park in Kitsilano near UBC to utilize Cory's crab trap. Spent a couple hours hanging and caught one large delicious crab. When all was said and done, we had a team dinner at Cory's house.

Motorcycles and rock n' roll.

Cory's good friend Arlin's shop was having their first anniversary party.

Cory.

Free Beer.

Arlin's wife.

Alley Cat Race.

We were working a checkpoint.

Cory peeing at what we thought was the checkpoint.

Cory realizing we weren't at the right spot only to find out he was told the wrong cross streets in the first place.

Finish line.

Riding to the beach.

Cory and his creeper van.

Van in the background. Crabbing.

CrabTrap.

Ben Turner. Cory. Tarrin(Brandishing a Canadian Tuxedo)

Crab. mmmmm.

Sick Again

Having way to much fun on the regs has proven to break me down every now and then rendering me useless to the outside world. I have somehow even managed to not go up the hill for the third day in a row today. Super bummer town, but it could be worse. On a lighter note, I woke up and looked outside to see parts of what looks like what used to be some sort of garden. So I proceeded to hop out of bed, make some tea and toast and I headed out there to see what I'll have to work with. Pulled some dead plants, found some dormant raspberry bushes as well as dormant strawberries, and felt soil for the first time in a long while. It was nice. It's cool to be kind of out of my element with gardening up here with the snow and what not. There's new knowledge to be gained and new skills to be acquired. I'm pretty excited to work with my hands and the soil again.

I'm going to have to clear this snow in the next few days to start working the soil.

 On the two terraced rock levels and under the leaf litter, strawberry plants are showing signs of green.

So this looks like the main gardening area. Not much to look at, but that will soon change. I'll probably end up expanding big time.

Holy Fun Times

I feel a little under the weather from having to much fun...better details of said fun to follow later. Enjoy photos.

 Going away party number one of three for Andrea.

The happy hang-over gondi. the following day. Coffee for breakfast.

 Village after shred. Matty. Kea. Ben2. Pat. Andrea. Mark.

The Village.

Ben2. Mark.

 Mancakes. Lots of sunny shredding not pictured.

Bonfire at Eric's House.

 We had our final Wildwood breakfast with Andrea. She was Alberta Bound.

Game time again with the super weekend crew.

Eric back3. 

 We love hand-plants. Front Craig. Back Me.

Ben2 and Mark. Sun. Warmth. Back Deck .

Double Pow Days

 We got mass amounts of snow the last few days making for some good riding. I went up with Andrea and Anthony for some amazing Glacier Face Laps with no lift line-up yesterday. The snow was super deep, fresh and it kept falling all day. So good. Today was a whole different story. I woke up early to a bright blue sky and headed to the mountain for an early shred before work. I ended up riding hard, then going straight to work for a few hours, only to go back up and ride till the mountain closed. I feel pretty lucky right about now.

Andrea and Anthony. Coffee before Glacier Face Laps.

Rainy Apres before my night shift. Caesers, then more coffee.

Brown Baggin it...

Sun popping out over Blackcomb.

Sunny Apres with the Mongoli Crew. Pat. Dane. Alana.

Just More Powda

The lazy Sunday crew at it again.

This comp was actually last night. Pretty sweet.

Sun poking through.

 Andrea and Eric ripping pow.

Ben Turner. 

 Anthony.

 Ben Turner. Peak Face Laps. Yup.

 Anthony dropped this twice...had to be a thirty to forty foot drop with a chopped landing. Monster.

Eric.

My attempt at a front flip...I know I know...the board refers to cats.(Picked it up really cheap.)

Ben Turner. Andrea. Alexa.