ChocolateFoot – Day 2

Since we didn’t really get into Kamloops until late, I give you this shot of the campfire at Harper. Sweet accommodations again, right n the middle of hte trail. In fact, our breakfast was interrupted by several riders cruising through our kitchen.

It was going to be a hot and dusty one, as evidenced by the clouds of it on the warm up descent.

Nothing like Harper to get your jumping legs back.

Here’s Wa all mystical and backlit, like the woodsy little nymph that he is.

Canopy gap….

Obviously a shit day…..

Everyone loves this one, especially since Specialized made it famous. We so very nearly had a full house on it, but Phil just couldn’t get his head around it (so close … so very, very close). I guess he’ll just have to come back for more….

It’s just like being flushed down the toilet, what could be easier?

Al continued politely destroy every move in sight.

That is, when Tom hadn’t already killed it first.

Two and a half laps of Harper, we went into town for some seriously gay lattes (“Would sir like it with a lemon twist?”). I guess you had to be there. Anyway, we still had plenty of daylight left for a couple of Rose Hill runs. Once again, it was shit.

I guess because it’s so similar to England no one had any real problems with Rose.

Well, there was a little lock up on this part, but it was in part due to some sick locals hitting this HUGE stepup from ROAM that had the intimidation factor up a little. I don’t have any stills of that one, but I’ll get some vid of it up in a while.

Phil, you’d better stay back there and keep an eye on the girl.

Yeah, yeah, we get it. Bluebird and warm.

Huge day, I hope those guys get tired soon……

ChocolateFoot – Day 1

Did someone say “Marmalade?”

I’m telling you again, I just can’t make these people up. Another gang of Brits. These fellows come to us via a strange and wondrous place known as ChocolateFoot. Go hang out on their forum. I bet someone tries to sell yo a bag o badger dung within five minutes. Seriously.

Anywhoo, I have a feeling that none of them invisioned these f star accomodations when they signed on.

As previously mentioned, we overlapped with the last day of the Jedi Tour in the Woodlot. Pretty cool, but lots of Englishmen in one place eh? At least we had Barb and Courtenay along to keep the egos firmly disciplined.

Meeeow. The Jedi crew got Wa into riding in the first place, so it was pretty cool having them all out at the same time.

It was also cool to have some fresh legs to inject a little energy into the system. Everyone had a great vibe going and lots of trail got chewed up in no time.

Ahhhh, the new kids are going to be OK.

Wa got over his fear of heights pretty quickly.

..and his fear of snakes.

Dom didn’t appear to be afraid of anything.

And Tom just slept a lot.

Revenge of the Sith – Last Day

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww…last day with the Council. Will it really be a whole year before they come back?

Today also happened to overlap with the first day of the Chocolate Foot tour, but we’ll get into them later. This is why I got two vans, so we can have a British Invasion at the Woodlot.

Oh yeah, the Woodlot. We don’t get out there too much, but it’s so cool. Maybe a little less woodwork than in the past, but it’s so buff.

Yup, them British boys like their wood.

Sort of seems like a smaller crew today. It’s like there were lots of casualties or something.

So we leave you with this shot of Powerful Pierre, who along with Paul managed to survive the whole tour unscathed.

Well, and maybe if you’re good to me, I’ll slap together a little videeeya for you.