Year: 2003

Mountain Biking with the Bush Pilot

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C’mon.

Look at the weather. September and it’s hot and sunny in Vancouver.

Burton got together a few of his buddies (Josh Sarkis, Paul Wetmore, Javed Mufti, Rob Devine, Scotty and Steve Todd) for a good one.

“Your mission today, should you choose to accept it …”

Ok, so it’s not all Hollywood and Rock Stars. Or is it?

This one’s been tilted to make it look flatter.

Hanging it out, Andre’s edge.

More steep and sick.

There ya go. Pick a thousand words. Any thousand. Now look at this shot and try not to choke

Mountain Biking Seymour

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Well the trip stayed pretty wet for the last day. Here’s the sun trying to peek through at the top of CBC.

Alonso the mad Mexican was going to ride with us on this lap, but he forgot his helmet and had to ride down the road in the pissing rain. He’s the Mexican without the helmet.

No that’s not snow. It’s rain reflecting the flash back. Joey Slobodian on CBC.

Gimme a second. I think the drugs are starting to take hold. Oh, it really is that skinny? Never mind.

I think this is Joey again. CBC.

More little men from Ontario and humongous trees.

Georege, George, George of the Jungle–Watch out for that tree!

If you look way over to the left of the picture, you can see Mark finding out just how much wind can get knocked out of you on Corkscrew.

I’ve also got a vid of this trip posted over at some weird site in Eastern Europe or something. You can get it HERE.

Use bpbiking@hotmail.com for the user ID and “harley” as the password.

You can see another vid from earlier in the summer HERE using the same access code.

Mountain Biking Kamloops

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The 17th was an early start (sort of) so that we could get a ride in at Kamloops on our way to Vancouver. We saw the first snows of the season on the way over Hwy 22.

Brrrrr.

It was either that or the fact that the town of Little Fort has this weird UFO reputation going. Lot’s of probin goin down in Little Fort.

Just south of Little Fort is the town of Barriere, which got hit hard by the fires this summer. Here’s the big Tolko mill with charred hills behind it.

I think that this is the little gas station and restaurant where it started.

Anyway, we finally got to the ‘Loops, where the fine folks at Full Boar Bikes hooked us up with a driver for Harper Mtn.

This is the the base of the ride at Harper–Paul Lake.

What do you want to do today?

Of course, it’s not all shuttling and drinking beer.

Luckily the top isn’t too far away and the view is worth it.

We didn’t take too many shots, as we were having a bit too much fun riding. There was a lot of wood that I haven’t seen before, but you will have to be content with these shots of rock faces.

Mark….

Clem…

And Joey…

I shouldn’t be picking on Joey actually. He had a breakthrough day at Harper and rode a ton of stuff very strongly. Here he is in better form.

City Slicker….

And another in my series of cool bugs.

This was the first trip that nobody fell asleep in the back of the van. Well, almost nobody…..

So we packed up and hit the road again for more driving.

Stare into the light….you are getting sleepy…you are under my control…..