Another Old Cove’r

Posted on June 4, 2013June 4, 2013 by Smoke

They’re comin’ outta the woodwork, I tells ya. Another old co-worker from the dark days of Cove Bikes showed up today in the form of one Paul Jolley. Paul disappeared to the Eurozone around 14 years ago, and just showed up with a Swiss miss and some kind of German joinery ticket.

I don’t know what that means, but as Barb tells me, this baby snake we saw is a Northwestern Garter Snake.

Mean little bugger; he took a few strikes at me.

Meanwhile, Dani (the aforementioned Swiss Miss), was sending various drops in the neighborhood in fine style.

Of course, the male of the pair felt that he must go bigger, and so he did.

As today is the unofficial first day of summer (yeah, it’s finally hot and dry), we celebrated with some new vintages.

Thanks for the vineyard tour, Addy!

OK, one is never enough, so we shredded another one out.

Happy first day of summer everyone. Time to get out there!

Oh, almost forgot. Today’s wildlife tally was one NW Garter snake, a whitetail deer, a black bear, and three mountain goats. Not too bad…

Ridin’ With Frenchies

Posted on May 12, 2012May 16, 2012 by Smoke

With the KVR trip down, training camp is now complete and it looks like it might be summer already.

Julie, who helped me guide this week, had a full house of Quebecois et Quebecoise in the form of her sister and some friends out for a quick riding visit from Squamish. They managed to hit a perfect day.

It was only myself in the group that had ridden in from the reservoir, so that’s where we went.

It was a good crew, so we didn’t hang out too much. I managed to snap these shots during a little break for a flat tire near the end.

Emily is a bit of a shredder. She just started riding a year ago.

Pretty damn good for a rookie. Ryan’s been riding for a while, so I expect him to shred.

This one is for Johanna. There’s a nice pic of your hunnybunny.

Sierra North

Posted on September 24, 2011November 4, 2011 by Smoke

One of those double days. I got a couple of cool Germans on short notice, AND some OG’s from the coast were up. Looks like we all wanted to ride in the same place, so it’s a Naramata Supergroup kind of day.

Or just a super day. Whatevs.

You can always tell when the group is fast, because you’ll get a lot of shots like this where we’re standing still. It’s about the only time I get the camera out on days like this.