Almost getting killed then going to Whistler.

Thursday morning at 7am I go for a paddle with Anna and Bret. Bret is kind of new to this whole white water kayak thing so he just ran the shuttle for me and Anna on the upper part of the river and then he was going to join us when the water calmed down a little lower down river. The river is raging cause its been like 35c out for the last week and that snow that I have been skiing on is now on its way to the ocean. Me and Anna put in at Tamihi, I got worked right away, but my roll is solid and I used it like 5 more times and I even got stuck in a hole and almost swam but no swims for me! Then we get to this place were there is a bunch of wood in the river and Anna goes first and gets stuck on this log and I am floating towards this log just watching Anna get worked and then she pulled the cord and swam from her boat. Long story short I huck huge air off this log and float upside down under the rest of the logs and roll up on the other side, total fluke but I will take it now I fallow Anna's boat down river and get it out like 4km later. Bret almost called search and rescue when he saw me float by with Anna's boat with no Anna in it. We all made it out alive and all we lost was a nice kober paddle. So if anyone finds a paddle talk to Anna. After this is was time to pack up the car with all outdoor gear know to man and go to whistler and have some fun for 3 days.

Once I got up there I stayed with the Routley's. As soon as I got in the drive way Keith Ray was there and we went and floated our kayaks down the uber high green river. After that it was off to the weekey thursday night loonie race. I have never done a loonie race before, but I have heard all about it. What normally goes down is 300 people pay 2 bucks and they race around for like an hour and then do a post race apres. This weeks race was a little different because they were doing a fund raiser and there was no official apres cause the money they normally spend went to the charity and same with the prize money I would have won for winning. Yeah, thats right I won the loonie by 11seconds, I broke my chain and had to ran the last 10minuts and barely hung on for the W! I guess thats what you get for throwing down the power. Normally you win 50 bills for winning but it all went to the charity, so I feel a little good about myself, its all good. So no official apres but there was plenty off food and drink that people brought to the finish and the post race BS is always top notch. They raised $2,300. everyone should do a loonie race in there life time.

Day Two was going to be a epic day out on the road bike. We are going to ride up the duffey lake road and back to whistler its like a 140km road ride with a 14km steep climb up to Joffre lake. Tony and I meet Tyler Alison at Dusty's and some how ran into a injured Jeff Beaty who was just waking up off the sidewalk from a late night bender at Dusty's. Tony is in the 50-60 category and has won medals at master world championships and Tyler is 16 and is the great hope of the nation to win medals at Olympics in like 4years. We rode out and I just tore those guys a new one up the climb up to Joffre. The weather was so nice the whole ride but it just pissed ran on the decent into Pemberton and we all froze to death then at the bottom the sun was out and it was 25c. We stopped at the gas station 35km from home and loaded up on some sugar to get us home. Tyler being the Junior it was up to him to get the crazy stuff so pizza pretzel and a family pack of licorice was the order of the day. We had an insane head wind on the way home and I had to tow those boys back, for Tyler it was the longest road ride he had done ever. Tony and I get back and Tony opens up the fridge and one of the sponsors for Team Whistler, Whistler brewery gave him a bunch of beer and we sat there and drank it, what a great day. Oh yeah before the ride I kayaked down the river again but we went at 7am and was riding road bikes by 10, sometimes you just got to pack the adventures in.

Day three I had just one more thing I wanted to do and that was go on a epic whistler single track ride. So I meet up with local legend Eric Crowe, aka “crowe man”and we did “thrill me, Kill me” and its all just rocks and roots and little bridges and short ups and short downs and hard, hard single track. Thrill me kill me took like 45-1hr to do then it was up to “comfortably numb” and its more of the same. CN is 24km long and they say it takes 4-7hrs to do, so its not for the weak. Crow man ran out of gas and cut out early but I kept it rolling and finished the trail in about 2hrs and 15min. After this ride my arms and worked, and my hands are so sore from braking and shifting so much, you are just on the gas the whole time, its quite a ride. OK I am going to pass out for a couple days now.
4-7hrs, yeah its the real deal!
I was loving it!
Crowe man was worked! time to go home
team whistlers recovery drink of choice

go to your home ball! monday night I watched happy gilmore then tueday I played a round! four!!!!!!
just before the take out of the green river. so much fun!
tyler and tony just before the climb.
the white water course at Rutherford looks like its pumping eh?
eating food after thrill me kill me. mmmmmm

I have now skied in all 4 seasons!

This past weekend was just unreal! So Friday the day after the redneck BBQ I went and rode baker from chilliwack, it was 214km when it was all said and done and it was so amazing, the road up to artist point was not open all the way but the excavators cleared a single path for quite a ways up the road and it was like riding single track with 20ft walls of snow on each side. On the way way home I some how lost my birth certificate so if anyone finds it out there please return. Then saturday night I a group of us went to run the river from Alison Pools to pointa vista. The river is raging cause its 33c out and all that snow that I have been skiing on is really melting. The top of Tamihi is very insane, the raft company even lets people get out and walk if they dont want to go down it. But I went for it and the first little bit went good then I got tossed upside down, but I rolled up and then was backwards but I still made it. So I went down the hardest part of the river upside down and backwards. The rest of the run went smooth. After that I had to go clean out my shorts. Then Sunday wast the ultimate day. I went for a wicked mt bike ride first thing on Vedder, I rode my favorite run. The Den, REFFER, Mongoloid, mexican ninja, and Femur. Then I went and kayaked down the river from tamihi to pointa vista and I was on fire! Its so hot out I was just busting rolls to keep cool! Then after that I went home and ate some food and packed my snow skis in the car and drove up to cheam. Somehow out of the blue I ran in to my Cousin Cam on the quad and he said that the rest of the family is at this camp site so I drove there and told them what I was doing and they said they would drive me up to the top! I would sure rather spend the 2hrs skiing on snow then hiking up some gravel road. The quad ride up was insane, my uncle rick drove the quad and he was flying, I had no helmet on and am trying to hold on to my pack with my skis and poles and he is just hucking the quad off all the water bars and just flying. Then I skied/hiked/scambled for 5hrs and my cousin Craig picked me up and drove me down. The ride down was much more sane. Thanks Craig. Once I got down there was a camp fire and they even feed me some left over BBQ chicken, mmmmm. I went cliff jumping yesterday and today I am golfing at the falls. Then I am going up to whistler to bike, paddle and ski. If anyone out there knows anyone in Squamish/Whistler that might want to take me out on a river run please let me know. Here are some photos from the skiing on cheam/lady that I did.

The best way to get up mt cheam road!
skiing with shorts on! note the tan line!
View of cheam from the top of Lady peak. I just skied down that!
Top of Lady looking at mt baker.
top of lady looking at the Fraser Valley.

Time to red neck up on y'all!

So last night was just wicked! I cleaned out my basement storage and found all this wood and was thinking it would be a great idea to burn it all and not deal with it at the dump. Then I was getting hungry, as usual. So I put two and two together and boom, why not have a red neck BBQ (pot luck style) up at the river and burn all this stuff. So some others were down and we went up to the river and cooked some meat and ate some food and shot a gun. We are thinking Thursday is going to be the day for this, cooking meat over fire is a unreal idea. Here are the pics, enjoy. I got to go, I am riding baker today.
Hum, this guys last name must be Federau.
Will killing a s'more, much like he is going to kill road nationals next week.
You know the fire is good when the parks guy is warning you to keep it under control

shooting guns is fun. Hey Anna go stand over there, and face your back towards me.
check out that salmon, this is the pre grill shot.
And the after shot. mmmmmm
Kevin Hears, “oh man, your right this chicken does taste like a hot dog” thats what you get for shopping at supper store. Save on is going on strike soon so I am going to have to load up on saturday. Its going to be one massive shop!
fire jumping time. yee haw!

Loving it!

So the past weeks have just been unreal! Just filled with biking, kayaking, skiing, tea pot challenge, yoga, push up pyramid and work. Thats right I got a job working at the falls golf resort, my bike ride into work is like 18km, but I found a short cut up the paved golf cart path and it knocks 1km of the distance plus its like riding wicked single track through the woods on your road bike. I even get to freak out the golfers once and a while. So if anyone wants to go golfing I can get a serious discount for anyone who wants to golf with me, and I kind of want to bust out some happy gilmore! The high light of the week must have been When Saturday when we did a river run first thing and I found a I pod at the put in then I tore the river a new one then went home for 20min and then rode my road bike to baker, it was like 203km and I blew up huge on the climb and got worked then had to ride a nasty head wind all the way home. I did nothing on Sunday. On monday I did the push up pyramid to 10 and back down, and in about 20min I am going out to do the teapot challenge. Thursday night we are going to have a high class redneck party up at the river where we are going to burn stuff and cook meat and I am going to bring my gun, yeee haw! No serious its going to be a pot luck style up at tamihi at 7. so bring some food and anything you need burned, I found a bunch of wood that I am going to light a blaze. I am then going to ride baker again on Friday, but this time I am going to rest up a bit more and I am going to kill it! So here are some photos of the past little while and this is why I live in the best place ever.

Best day ever!

This past weekend was one for the books. So Saturday I had to drive Kurt to the airport, I got back at 3pm and then meet Craig, Jaz, Jordan, and Sophie at the river and we ran Tamihi to Pointa Vista and I was on fire, good thing we were in the water cause I had to put out the flame that was coming off my boat. No serious, the water is massive right now, almost massive as my “which way to the beach” pipes. Anyhow I stayed upright and never even had to use my bomber roll, and I had so much fun! Then right at pointa vista there is this sweet wave that we were surfing, well Craig was surfing it, I was just padding into it and getting worked and then rolling up down river a bit. I must have rolled up like 10 times. Then right after that I went home meet Nathan and we had one crazy adventure in mind.

The plan was to pack all the overnight camping stuff and all our ski stuff and camp and ski on mt Cheam. So we drove up as high as we could before we ran into snow. Then we hiked up to spoon lake where we set up camp. Hiking with camping and skiing stuff is quite hard it felt like I had full sized adult in my pack. Then we cooked up some food and hit the sack. The tent was set up on like 1meter of snow. In the morning we woke up and everything was covered in frost and it was uber cold out. So we drank some espresso and acted like giddy school girls then strapped ski stuff to our backs and started hiking up the foggy mountain. Then like ¾ ways up we hiked out of the fog and all you could see was the biggest mountain peaks and fog, it was so beautiful, I have never seen anything so amazing. We got to the top and chilled for a bit. It was cooking hot so I took off my shirt and dried it over my skis and just chilled I had my shirt off for like 20 min and today I am so burnt. Then after some PB and J's we put on the skis and hit all this untouched snow and it was unreal! Then we packed up camp and did some runs on this other area. We were out for like 6hrs in the unreal sunshine, what a day! My face is so red from the sun and snow. I want to go again. The snow is melting fast too. I would like to ski after June 21st so that I can say I skied in all 4 seasons, plus I have skied 49days this year and 50 days would be quite sweet. One might say unreal!

Kurt, how was Heathrow? So I was skiing down all this untouched snow and I was like Hum Kurt is probably in security at Heathrow right now. Oh mama see ta!
Yeah, Bring it!!!!!
Camping with uncle dawg on tons of snow.
so this is the top, on the far left is Slesse and Baker on the far right. Under all the cloud is the Chilliwack river valley, the very river valley where Kayaking took place the day before.
This is near the top and it was just unreal! we were at the top at 10am.
this is like half way down, what a day! unreal!

Chilliwack sucks, theres nothing to do?

The weekend was unreal! Saturday a bunch of us were going to go hiking up mt Cheam but there was so much snow that we could only park 2.5km from the real mt Cheam parking lot. Then we all hiked up to spoon lake and busted out the crazy carpets and let it rip. Then Sunday I played some more squash vs Mr Rodgers and it was definitely Mr Rodgers neighborhood, the best I could do was 9-6. But thats much better then the 9-2 the time before. Then after the Squash I hit up the Vedder mt for some of the best mt biking ever, Vedder is just unreal! Then Monday Nathan called in sick to work while I paddled on the lake and after that we strapped skis to our backs and went up mt Cheam for revenge. Hiking in ski boots is so hard, plus my feet now have some hard man style blisters on them. Skiing in June! Mama se ta! Ok the rain has stopped, I better go into work. Later

Home sweet home.

Its been a while. So I raced in Madrid and had a bad bad race, not much more to say then that. After Madrid I went to Liptovsky Mikulas Slovakia and had some good adventures and watched a very high level kayak race. Then I made it home, I got sick on the plane so when I got home I couldn't really do anything. Then my dad calls me up and needs me to go to California with him so he can get this camper. So I went and the Cali trip took way longer then it should have, like 3days longer. Bla. But now I am back at home and its unreal! Today was so so good. Gym, Sauna, mt bike ride on vedder (with a new trail just off chain crazy) then I played Squash vs Brad Rodgers. I didn't win. I am going to paddle a kayak tomorrow and hike up Mt Cheam some time this weekend. But I stubbed my toe and it kind of hurts, at least I didn't get a squash racket in the face. Here are a bunch of photos not in order.

So the one day in Slovakia I did this wicked adventure, rode my bike up this mountain for 1.5hrs then locked my bike to a tree in the middle of the woods then put on a some hiking clothing and hiked around the mountains for 5hrs then rode back to the hostel. It was a unreal day, I got hailed on so hard, I thought I was going to die. It was the first hike I have done in a long time and couldn't walk for like 3 days after. Oh but so worth it!

Magnum dark chocolate ice cream bar, best ever!
Driving to Cali
My old mans new camper.

Ben showing how to use his mouth as a knife, if you need to make a sandwich this is how you do the tomato part.
There was these kids at the kayak race who had the most unreal mullets. I was kind of jealous, I think I am going to grow one, I cant wait to play hockey with it flowing out the back of my helmet eh. Its about time to get a mullet eh.
This is what you eat when you are watching a race. Much better then doing the race and eating power gels. But the heart burn after is not so good. I think this was the best sausage I have ever had, no joke. And the spicy mustard, oh forget about it.
We would play Settlers of Catan every night. I won the overall with little to no prior settlers experience. Toby and Ben were pissed. And I was loving it. The last game I killed it, I went with the Development card overkill method. Stone, wheat, sheep. look at all that red on the board. oh mama.