OK, now it’s REALLY hot. Campbell River was 40C, and records fell all over the province today. We weren’t going to bother with the bike park this tour, but with temps like that, it was time to hit a mountain top.

There’s SNOW at Mt Washington. Oh, and some decent trails too.

Also, the weather sucks.

It was surprising how rowdy the park is. Not so much like the Whistler A-Line stuff, but more with the crazy rocky steeps and some pretty serious skinny lines.

There was also some snow, and some crappy views.

Clash of the Titans….

Yes, there is a back story to go along with that last pic. I think you can make up your own for it.

A bit of a session happened after lunch at the drop park.

As always, Lairy Nick was down with deeds, not words.

Gabe sent the biggest air of the day on this one. I think he was the most surprised by it.

Even Po’ was hitting the drops today.

Yeah, summer snow.

…which led to some summer snowballs.

A few other trails were off the other side of the park. I don’t think they were actually all open, but they were kind of cool. Lots of this kind of rolldown move to be had over there.

My lurvley assitants.

Stinky mtn bikers…

Jules…

Pierre, and some manly bikes.

Ahhh….haven’t had one of these in a while. Gratuitous bear shot, a bike park tradition.

And we’ll finish with this cool jumping spider that I found sucking the life outta that fly on our windowsill in Cumberland.

Well, a missed ferry meant a quick ap in a local North Van park, along with some entertainment from the local beach partiers.

“Oh, look at the homeless people….thats so sad.”

Yeah, homeless but with $80k worth of mountain bikes.

Anyway, an early start put us on Vancouver Island pretty early, so we managed to hit the Dumont trails for a full day. And a full day it was…

Right off the bat the crew started throwing down on the stunts of Nanaimo.

Dumont is nice in that there are lots of mellow moves. This stunp drop was probably the harshest thing there, and it couldn’t have been more than an 8 footer.

Newcomer Lairy Nick demoed his Kinrade-ish style for us. Get used to seeing this kid.

Another of the young’ns out for this tour, Scott (or Mongo as he became known).

The oldsters were well repped as per usual. Here’s Panama out for another round.

Also Po’, proving that he can “step up” when the situation requires.

Oh wait, ther were some bigger moves. Now I remember.

The last teenager is Flash. More about him later. You just need to know that he’s afraid of bears and somewhat gullible.

Panama again, getting the big airs off to an early start.

Maybe too early…

Yeah, that Nick kid again.

Our friend Gabe (he’s Canadian, helping out). Having the time of his life.

After an absence of four years, Chaos has returned to Canada. Living up to his name too. He cased this one.

Some post ride refreshments….

…and a post ride haircut. Mongo get trimmed….maybe all the ladies will like Mongo bettter.