Squamish

The Happiest Place on Earth – Pt. 1

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What….two years have already gone by and I haven’t gone for a Disney run?

Well no wonder. At least it’s not duct tape and a half chewed EatMore….

Actually, it was Andrew’s birthday and he’s never been on one of these, so here ya go…the birthday boy ridin’ shotgun.

Good views from that chair.

With our first lift access, we had some time for plenty of pics, and between Andrew and Wyld Willy there were plenty of SLR’s on the flight.

Say hi to Willy…

OK, enough with the artsy crap…

Arthur, with some kind of gas or something…

Ahh, just relax, the bikes are coming….

Holy FroRiders!  Yes, that’s Tippie AND Simmons there with Willy.

Ready, set, walk yer bikes?!

Oh, there’s the trail.

Our diverse crew, which included other veterans of the heli scene like our old pal Burton, also had several first timers.  Not that it mattered.  This ride quickly degenerated into something of a hammer fest.  If you can call falling down cliffs like these hammering.

I know Burton was a bit worried about the size of the crew, but at this point I think he was more worried about his fitness.  These guys can all ride pretty good.

Ah yes.  Lunch.  Where it all fell apart for me.

Seems I got a tainted sammie from Safeway.  I was feeling fine until this point.  Maybe a bit outta shape compared to some of the hammers that came along, but nothing too bad.

At this point, I still felt at least as good as Lane did here.

What do I mean?  Well, just stay tuned for the next post and I’ll tell ya…..

Sylverster & Friends – Day 2

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Let keep this Sea-To-Sky theme going, shall we? OK then, we’re off to Squamish. How about a warmup run on Ditch Pig?

May as well. We lost a member of our crew today. Poor James, the steeps were just a little too humbling. Well, he actually had to go home to his girly. I think it’s easier to say the trails were too hard than to admit to your buddies that you’re whipped. Hey, it was his call. Sylvester didnt’ have that choice, and sent it on Ditch Pig without a conscience.

..and Richard too, natch.

The weather continued to co-operate, and even though we lost one member of the tribe today, we gained another with our old pal Shane.

Ready To Fly is a new line in Squampton, and it’s got this cool berm to play with.

Shane didn’t look ready to fly at all.

Everyone else did though.

Say hi to Courtney and Max. Max is Courtney’s “excuse” for not working for me this year. Hmph.

After lunch we only got one more lap, but it was a long one. I was sort of down on Squamish for a while, as the trails were getting kind of trashed, but I gotta say that I had my best Squamish day in several year today. Sylvester seems to agree on this air in Deliverance.

Skunked

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Well, we were SUPPOSED to be hitting a couple of days of heli runs, but the spring of 2007 had other ideas. Oh well, I haven’t hit the Squamish stuffin a while, wo we took the opportunity to nail some lines there.

That’s Crouching Monkey, Hidden Squirrel there, which was as close to ridig heli trails as I could get on this day.

After a bit of a pedalling session, we hit 19th Hole for a lap. Man, that new Knolly of mine is almost too quiet, as I damn near landed on a bear near HomeBrew. That makes 2 animals I’ve snuck up on in the past 2 weeks.

We were pretty beat after a day in the rain, so rather than brave the highway at night we headed up the the river to camp in the rain. Tarps, the saviour of outdoor life in BC.

Good times. Maybe in the fall we’ll try again.