Judy-Lynn and Chris – Day 2

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Smoke

We were going to go to Silverstar today, but Judy-Lynn has to hang around the hospital today, so we’re off to ride Penticton instead. So I get to see what kind of rider Chris is…

Pretty good form, I’d have to say. We shredded a run down the Peat Bog and then checkout out the local creek for some more wildlife. Kokanee isn’t just a crappy beer, it’s actually the name of a kind of land-locked salmon indigenous to the lake.

Then, on the shuttle return, I ran across these California Bighorn Sheep.

Pretty awesome, I’d have to say. So is this phat Ponderosa pine tree. There’s a stand in this one trail we regularly ride that must be a couple hundred years old.

I think Chris is liking round 2.

Stylin’ action shot in the bunchgrass.

Yup, that’s the sunset. Thumbs up.

OK, so Judy-Lynn will be out of surgery soon. So we’re out for today.

Dynomite – Day 3

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Smoke

If I ever manage to strike it rich (highly unlikely given my chosen field…), this is one car I’d be pretty interested in having. Coincidentally, it happens to be owned by my pal Don, who struck it rich via a Dairy Queen franchise. Don is also a kickass mountain bike racer from the 90’s that kept Barb company at the World Masters a few years back.

But enough reminiscing. Lets bust out some airs on the Bog….

Our warmup lap was all 3700 vertical feet of Carmi, from Code 4 right to the lake.

That’s enough to wake up anyone.

Unfortunately for Joe, it was also enough to cause a good strain of his Achilles on this aborted DJ. You can see him about to bail out here. Killer shot though.

He’s pretty tough, he kept riding all day anyway. Round two was a full height Beer Run. Haven’t been doing the upper section that often, but Gabe went out and cleared the top for us last week so we called him up to show us around.

Can’t believe that guy is going to be a dad too. They’ll let just about anyone into that gig.

The other brothers had to step up and do some road gaps now that Joe is taking it easy.

Fruity portrait shots in Ivy League…

Whoa…who’s that handsome devil?

We also got a bonus lap on Drops-A-Lot. No pics, as we were BANGIN’ on that lap. Seriously, bumper to bumper action all the way down. So ggod that we had to chill on the beach with some beers until…

..the sun set.

Can it get any better? Well, there’s always tomorrow.

Farah and Oli – Day 1

Posted on July 19, 2008 by Smoke

Gotta start the new kids off with–uhhhh, kid gloves. So it’s off to The Bog for a couple of shakedown laps.

Wait a sec….this is the easy stuff? There’s freekin’ DINOSAURS on the easy stuff?

Yeah, ain’t it the truth of the Moment.

The kids did good for the first day, but I think the scale sort of wigged ’em out a bit.

Yes, take a deep look into those cold steely eyes and what do you see?

…Bliss.

Which is a good stoke for anyone.

We’ve been charging pretty hard with the last couple of crews, so you might not realize just how much trail we’re hitting in a day. The Bog is almost 4000′ vert. per lap if you run them all the way to the lake. It’s something like 22km. Even if you’re just looping the upper section, it’s 7 or 8 km and a good 1500′ vert per lap.