Ricky's Moving Company.

Not a lot to report the last month. I've been crazy busy power washing a chicken barn and doing not much else. However the last week has been just full of good times, kind of.

So Melanie has this chair and its kinda falling apart. Ricky being the nice guy he is offers to take the chair to a wood shop and re glue and clamp it so its all good. 

I have move the chair downstairs, and being the man that I am I decide to do it solo. anywho, I miss a step and just go ass over tea kettle down these stairs, as you can see there is a hole in the wall at the end of the stairs that my foot went through and I also put some nice scuffs on the side wall. This was sunday. Monday I caught the plague and I was in bed hacking up my lungs for 3 days, what a great week! 

that is my foot I think. 

Im kinda in the middle of a drywall job over at the von castle. The dry wall job Im doing is apparently called  a California patch job. Here is how to do your very own California patch job. the photos below will show you the dirt bag do your own fix.   

after all these steps you need to start the mud phase. thats for next weeks program. stay tuned. 

I think its just a sprain. might be broken but its fine Im sure. 

Friday night Melanie and I went to this fundraiser. David Suzuki, and Matt Good were there. I felt like a rock star. 

Dr David Suzuki telling us why the pipeline and endbridge is not cool. 

saturday we did the ore crusher up in squamish. Melanie has no jerseys with pockets so she rocked a team Paraguay jersey to first place in the womens 30-34. I had a bit of a rough go. My raced started out good at the front riding with Neal Kindree and slaying single track like a 2007 Marty Lazarski then after half the race was over I kinda ran out of gas and ended limping over the finish like a 2012 Mike Levy. I should be good to go for the Nimby. 

sunday we went up into the back woods of Chilliwack and strapped on the planks. It was really warm out and the snow was really slow but so fun. 

"Ricky, I overheating!!!!"

lady peak on the right cheam on the left.

spring skiing at its finest. 

thats Harrison lake and the eastern end of the fraser valley. 

Bike Season!

Bike season is fully underway. Its been April 1st since I've skied and Im not really missing it all that much. The trails have been just awesome, and riding a bike is so fun. I got my new bike the Trek Superfly 100 and its everything I've ever dreamed of and yes its a 29er. The guys over at Corsa Cycles in Squamish have been helping me out with it and its been great! The bike rides like a dream and is a trail mulching machine! I made a couple changes to it like a dropper post, big tires, Mavic crossmax wheels, and race face carbon cranks. The thing is like 25lbs and it climbs like a goat and descends just as nice as my big bike. Its like dude man meets xc racer guy. Living the dream!

sweet! this is my steed, it goes fast, I like. 

rode like a hack on one ride. 

went to squamish and rode with Neal Kindree the wonder child. 

I did a FVMBA spring series final race last weekend. It was a ton of fun! It was a super D but it was really more like  25min xc that was kinda down. Kevin Calhoun was 3rd, Chris Johnston was 2nd, and I got the big win. Arthur Gaillot was also there but crashed out, so there was some top dogs in the field for sure.
results: 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj6VaFyDvJtGdDlqVG1BaktyOWJiZWxfMlBTZ3pCa3c#gid=0

Kevin Calhoun was 3rd and only lost to 2nd place Chris Johnston by 1 second. as you can see in this photo Kev's seat is jacked up. 

This is Chris, as you can see his seat is low. Thats got to be worth at least 1 sec. Kev you need a dropper I think?

Ricky on the Noah Fear 

Spring Time

Spring time in the Fraser Valley is my favorite! One weekend your getting face shots in the pow pow the next weekend your slaying hero dirt! I also got a new bike. Its the best bike I've ever been on. stay tuned for a bike update. Im doing the first bike race of the year this coming sunday. So excited.

getting the goods in the Baker backcounty. 

Max and Melanie riding the new part of the peels. Its funny when you cut down a bunch of trees you get this awesome view. Logging sucks, but we all need wood and the view is nice, right? 

Rossland

Just got back from five days in Rossland. It was unreal! I think its maybe the best place on earth. No joke!  we had awesome snow everyday. No traffic lights. and we had about 20 mountains you can ski 5min drive from town. Melanie and I drove the trusty tercel out and stopped at manning park on the way out. We did a bunch of laps of mt Kelly before the snow turned to soft serve but the first couple laps were deep and fluffy. Then in Rossland we skied Mt Lepsoe, Mt Kirkup, mt Plewman, and then on the last day we skied mt Elgood. Melanie grew up in North Bay Ontario and went to High school with Steve Omischl, so we hooked up with him for a couple laps. What a great trip, enjoy the photos.

Melanie Vonpowder

skining up with the manning park works yard in the background. 

Mt Kelly was oh so good! 

in yo face!

first morning in Rossland we woke to this on the car. so we were off to the Nancy Greene  summit to see what we could find. 

this is also the very same parking lot for the 7 summits mt bike trail. 

skin up

there are all kinds of these little huts all over. this one was the sunspot hut. 

found this in the hut. very funny. 

von, you missed the pillow huck off to your right. 

more skin. 

dont touch the remote, you might get sick. 

the next day we headed up the old glory trail but then headed up mt Kirkup. I thought it was the best day of the trip. the snow was deep and the sun was out. The sun was making the hoar frost glimmer much like it does in North Bay. 

check out the cougar tracks in the skin track. oh so bad. 

up on kirk up. 

the top couple hundred meters were really nice open glades, we were the first ones up there that day. The total run back to the car was 680m, it was a real leg burner. 

Mel on top of the world. 

Not a bad start to the day. 

yes deep!

for the last run of the day we randomly ran into Steve O, James Minifie a honch rando racer, and a dude man from Colorado named Jason. we met the them at the top of Kirkup and then we all just killed the down. It was a full dude man run for sure.

Next day we went up Plewman, I only have this photo. It was a good one but  things were starting to warm up. we still found the goods but had to look to north facing or shaded areas. 

we did a saturday afternoon drive around rossland looking for a house to buy and ran into these little guys running around the streets. Etsell, can you maybe catch those turkeys?

Last day was a half day cause we also did the 7hr drive back to the traffic light infested fraser valley. we skied Mt Elgood with Steve and James. snow was good at the top then soon turned to tree bombs and mush at the bottom, but a fun day for sure.

vonskin

Mel, James, and Steveo on the summit of mt Elgood.