**For those of you who were there, drop me an EMAIL to get the ftp info. I’ve set up an ftp site for us to share all the shots on. Mine are already on there. You can also check out Pete Campbell’s PHOTOSITE for some more heli shots taken by the Angry Pirate on the Sept. 18th ride.

Finally, we get another heli lap in. We were actually supposed to go yesterday with the NSMB.com crew, but the weather wouldn’t co-operate. It didn’t rain, but the clouds were too low to fly. C’est la vie. Patience paid off for today. It was pretty slick today though. About as slippery as I’d ever want to ride it.

A mixed crew for today. Burton and the boys are back for their annual journey, and the Angry Pirate came down from Whistler with some random old schoolers. Me and Barb and the Hicks rounded out the crew.

Here’s Burton answering uncomfortable questions from some cop….

Look close, there’s 8 riders in this shot.

The usual pre-lunch LionsBack session.

…with some pre-lunch launch thrown in for good measure.

Ahhh….lunch!

That’s my girl. After lunch we got serious.

…and the Pirate got Angry.

Check out this old school rig.

Unfortunately, this is when Javed took a random endo and cracked some ribs. Sucks to be you man. Gotta give him credit, he sure tried to tough it out, but it just wasnt meant to be. Better luck next time man.

If it’s any comfort, I totally feel your pain (it’s actually October 11 as I’m writing this, and I’m 2 weeks into the healing process from a wicked stack on Whistler. I’ll give you the details as soon as I catch up on the log).

Willy Billy Whatever showing off the sleeves.

Burton gets into it.

More fun with camera angles…

Five and a half hours later, and we’re almost there.

Time for Barb to drop one more big line.

..and then it’s time for beers on the beach.