Disneyland

Wait…is this before or after the ride? Sort of hard to tell with Team Shuttlewhore on the scene.

Sharon, inone of her final duties as President of the NSMBA.

Check out the reflection of the Tantalus in the Squamish estuary.

Dropping in…

Another crap day for a heli ride.

Check out the moon. I guess it’s been exactly 2 months since my last confession.

Airing it out on the Lions Back.

Wall ride….

Edge ride…

Edgier ride…

Posers…

Man, I just can’t miss today. Look at those bluebird skies.

Shot of the day.

A few Awesome Rock shots…

Mandatory Stone Rocks Lookout shots…

SWEET day. Only 2 Disney’s this year. I must be slipping….

Heli Day

A bit of an Allied Assault on Rainbow for today. I think we picked a good day for it too.

Our C-I-C, Oscar, managed to take himself outta the fight the day before.

Something about taking it easy and not doing anything hard. Then they go out and try to hammer A River Runs Through It. Ooops. And shoulder blew out crossing the river. Ahhhh, clipless….

No biggie, at least he didn’t have to sit through the safety lecture at Blackcomb Helicopters.

Besides, it was such a crap day.

Oh, and the snow was sort of cold….

Yeah, right. Anyway, a big gang of guys from Florida who seem to know each other a little TOO well. I think they must shop at the same stores as well.

Except for this guy. I think it was Pietro? Anyway, hyper Italian guy, one of those smaller guys who kills it at every sport they try. Solid bike handler and fun dude. I like how he looks like he’s 500′ tall in this shot. Your new nickname is Godzilla…..

Oh…..how juicy is that?

AND you get the moon in these shots too.

….AND the heli.

Ah yes, Canada. Up close and personal. There was a little confusion on the steeps from time to time.

A few of the guys got it together to session this line though.

I thought that we were going to make it down in time to hit another big line off the other side of hte valley, but no dice. The Florida boys were just too beat down from a week in Whistler, and called it a day. Leo, Julian and I went for a little session down at TrainWreck.

…and that was that. Once more around Whistler and home.

Rich and Lazy? – Pt 1

Well, I don’t kow if that describes any of us, but you can always join the debate at NSMB.com if youre interested.

Yup, first heli drop of the year. A little celebration. You know, the full moon in June, a couple of birthdays, an engagement.

What do I really care? I’m just happy that’s my bike in the sling there.

The weather was really decent, too. It was raining in Vancouver, hailing in Whistler, and we had mostly sunny skies.

Well, it couded over from time to time, nad there was a really brief sprinkle of rain at one point, but nothing serious.

The best part was the 20′ of snow on the ground.

Once you got he hang of it you could wail down anything, so we hit some lines that are essentially cliffs when the snow is gone.

Harley even came out, which is awsome since she’s 12 years old now. I thought for sure this would be her last time up there, but she did just fine.

Roy looks pretty gripped here.

One of the Queebs (thats slang for Quebecois for you foreign types).

It’s big terrain.

Totally unrideable without snow, massively fun with. I somehow pulled a couple of hundred feet down one of those pitches with BOTH wheels locked up.

So many pics, I gotta split the post up. Here, watch Wade eat for a bit….

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