‘Ooligans — Day 2

First off, congrats to Lance. Poor Basso. He looked sad.

OK, now on to the trip. About the last update, I did that at 1 am after another epic day so I may have forgotten a few things.

This is the part of the post where I drop names. We rode Whistler with Wade, Schwarzie, Bourdon, and Shaums. We also saw Schley, Lopes, Watson, JJ, Dyer, and a load of others. We also got to ride with two time Olymipic medallist (moguls) Ryan Johnston. Homie can ride a bike pretty good.

Enough wanking, on to the pics.

Did I mention that Ticket to Ride BC has the best lodgings in Whistler?

A good cabin does farkall for a hangover though.

Oh well, a five hour drive to Williams Lake will cure that. When we got there the first guy we see is “Grandpa” from Back in the Saddle fame.

After a stop into the local eatery, the Gecko Tree, and the local shop, Red Shreds, we hit the trails.

The first run was Hillbilly, an inbred abomination of rickety crap stunts. The opener is a teeter made of twelve foot twigs. You’ll have to wait for the vids to see that. Pure comedy.

Anyway, this hit here is where the boys started to ramp it up. Barb on her virgin run at it.

Run two really set the tone for the rest of the trip. We went over to Snakes and Ladders for a blast. It’s a huge collection of ‘lovely’ skinnies and hits.

Here Rocket balances a teeter.

Here’s Rocket blowing it on same.

Then we hit the Cherry Popper. Our assistant Nelly earned a new nickname with this move. Say hello to “Gnarly Bird.”

Then I found about a certain tradition amongst these ilthy blokes. When Chaos committed a beer crime, I launched into the Alexander Keiths “Lake of Beer” tirade. Suddenly Chaos runs up the hill towards the highway.

“Where’s he off to then?”

“Oh, he spilled his beer so he has to wave his cock at traffic.”

Rig-g-g-h-h-ht. That set the tone alright.

Happy boys at the end of the day.

‘Ooligans on ‘Oliday

OK, here it is.  The trip you’ve all been waiting paitiently for. 

13 maniacs from the UK. 

13.

Jedi, Skip, Chaos, Llew, Rocket, Emandem, Marvellous (or Rowan), Stuff, Ed, Mark, Pierre, Stew, and Paul (or Pole as I hear it pronounced).

With myself, Barb, and our illustrious assistant Nelly of To the Top Freeriding that’s 16.

That’s way too many.  I figured after a day at Whistler we’d be cutting that number back a bit.

(For those of you who don’t know yet, Whistleris a bit of a meat grinder.)

Anyway, here’s the boys getting unloaded at midnite at Casa de Smokie. 

 

We got up early and headed straight to Whistler with the crew.  Here we are up on the top of Garbonzo getting to know each other.

 

…and riding it. 

Here’s Skip dropping a rack face on Original Sin.

The soon to be infamous Chaos on the Clown Shoes drop.

Well, we got through the day without incident, and all had a great day.  We spent the night at Ticket to Ride BC, the best accomodations in Whistler at only $30 a night.

One day down.  Good start.  Tally ho gents!

 

Americans, Germans, and Brits

It’s D-Day.

The Limeys get here in a few hours and what am I doing? Screwing around on the computer.

Gary has been staying with us all week, and we’ve been doing a couple of laps a day. Of cocurse, I have no pics of Gary at all this week. Maybe later.

Jim and Aimee from Orange County were in again as well. They are both riding the best we’ve ever seen. We used film on them, so there might be some shots in a month or so. I never use film anymore so maybe there won’t be any at all.

Have a look at these guys. Jurgen is from Germany. He’s never ridden anything remotely theis technical. He got it figured out soon enough.

This is Josh from Texas. I heard Texas and I figured he was going to suck.

“Actually, I’m from Georgia”

Ri–g-g-ght. The HickHucksters ride again.

Homeboy had it wired from the get go.

Here he is on the infamous Boogieman log on lap two.

And he’s going to be an eye surgeon. Interesting choice of sports for a surgeon.

I leave you with this.

I’ll be out on the road for a week or more, so you will have to amuse yourselves for a bit. See ya soon….