ReReturn of the Jedi – Day 2

Well, a missed ferry meant a quick ap in a local North Van park, along with some entertainment from the local beach partiers.

“Oh, look at the homeless people….thats so sad.”

Yeah, homeless but with $80k worth of mountain bikes.

Anyway, an early start put us on Vancouver Island pretty early, so we managed to hit the Dumont trails for a full day. And a full day it was…

Right off the bat the crew started throwing down on the stunts of Nanaimo.

Dumont is nice in that there are lots of mellow moves. This stunp drop was probably the harshest thing there, and it couldn’t have been more than an 8 footer.

Newcomer Lairy Nick demoed his Kinrade-ish style for us. Get used to seeing this kid.

Another of the young’ns out for this tour, Scott (or Mongo as he became known).

The oldsters were well repped as per usual. Here’s Panama out for another round.

Also Po’, proving that he can “step up” when the situation requires.

Oh wait, ther were some bigger moves. Now I remember.

The last teenager is Flash. More about him later. You just need to know that he’s afraid of bears and somewhat gullible.

Panama again, getting the big airs off to an early start.

Maybe too early…

Yeah, that Nick kid again.

Our friend Gabe (he’s Canadian, helping out). Having the time of his life.

After an absence of four years, Chaos has returned to Canada. Living up to his name too. He cased this one.

Some post ride refreshments….

…and a post ride haircut. Mongo get trimmed….maybe all the ladies will like Mongo bettter.

Canada Day Long Weekend – Day 4

Time to put this weekend to the bed….Ooops! Sven beat me to it.

I guess Weebels sometimes DO fall down.

Anyway, HUGE update today. For some reason we seemed to take a lot of good shots for the holiday monday.

Like this one of breakfast.

I don’t suppose any of you have been drinking this weekend, have you?

Oh, and that flowered shirt? That would be our old buddy Mark (Syncro on the NSMB.com boards) who stopped in to see what the local skinnies were like.

After seeing the pics from yesterday, everyone was into checking out Arawana today, although we did modify the route to make it one big lap for today rather than a couple of shorter ones.

The boys were really pushing the skinnies for the last day.

Little airs…

Big smiles…

No Sven, it’s not a wheelie drop.

Mark working hard to get the Behemoth over the gap.

….and Andrew tries to find his center (hint: its not over there).

“Get this thing off my baaaaaaacckkkk!”

Welcome the 2008 Brodie catalog.

Here’s Barb getting chased by a giant can of beer.

Hi…..

Higher…..

Mark making new lines.

Another Brodie catalog shot.

For the second part of the ride we got into some endless singletrack on the Rusty Muffler.

Artsy Mariposa Lily shot courtesy of Barb.

Ahhhh, yes. The winery.

A great way to take a break ont he side of the trail.

Not everyone kept the ride going to the bitter end, but for those that did…

There were certain…

….perks. Keep going there Dorothy, I think there’s a few drops left.

Uhhhhh, which way is the trail again?

For gods sake Jeff……get a tan. Your whiteness is interfering with my view…..

Yeah, it’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it.

The ladies totally agreed.

And so we end how we started, with a wobbled Weebl.

Good long weekend. I think this crew will be down for a repeat in September. Harper Mtn. campout, everyone?