Early Season Exploring

Nicole and Dirk, some acquaintances of Barb’s through the airport came out for a litle exploration on Seymour today. It’s been a while since I saw anything I haven’t ridden before out there.

Like 6 weeks or so.

Found some.

I’d tell ya how to find it too, but then I’d have to kill ya.

Not much of a find, but I haven’t actually ridden that trail before so it counts.

We hit Dale’s Trail as well just to make it a full day.

Dirk

Nicole (she rips, sorry about the lame shot. We were riding, not posing).

Barb.

Nice ass.

Big Shuttle Day

5 runs on Seymour today. What a way to start February. Kids, I tell ya.

Yeah, Dean recovered pretty fast from yesterday. It was a lot nicer out today. Clear and cold. a bit of ice. Actually, enough ice that I fell on my ass and bruised my tailsbone in the first ten seconds of the ride.

I fell just to the Dean’s left in this shot, and my feet shot out from under me on the icy log there.

Whatever, it’s only a bruise. Super nice day all round. Not much damage to the trails considering how much rain fell this month. Everything was rolling fast, making the gaps really nice today.

Tons of yahoos out hittin’ it today. I didn’t catch Holmes’ name, but here’s a local hitting the ole’ PileDriver.

We even hit some old skool stuff on the West side, mostly because I haven’t been up to check out the mudslide yet.

“Hey Buddy, wanna buy a house in North Van for cheap?”


Groundhog Day

Well, maybe a couple of days late. It was cloudy and rainy all week though, so I guess that means winter is supposed to be over.

Yeah, right.

At any rate, the first tourist of the year rolled in today. The Deaner, from the “other” Deep Cove (the one on Vancouver Island), wanted to try the big stuff. In February.

Oh yeah, there was snow up there today. The first seasonal day in a month, and we’re riding the Circus, Jerry Rig, the starfish, and Boundary. What a day. I stunk the place out on a borrowed bike but Dean did pretty good…….

….for a 16 year old.

Classic shore day though. The top of the Expressway on the way to the Lobotomizer..

Gettin’ ready to go….

Lobotomized.

The Rig, and was slicccckkkkkkkk today.

Sideshow.

Lower Boundary.

I haven’t ridden Boundary or Starfish in I don’t know how long. I’ll be going back pretty soon too. Unreal how buffed out the trails on Fromme are. Even with torrential monsoon rains, the trails are as good as I’ve ever seen them.

…and a little DJ sesh to finish the day.

Seymour shuttles tomorrow.