St Georges KVR 2008 – Day 3

Good morning campers! How’s the bum feeling this morning?

Oh, and I’d better say Happy Birthday to me sister. So…. Happy Birthday!

Mellow ride up the canyon today. I love this part of the ride. It’s pretty cool with the tunnels and trestles.

Lunch time. A whopping 12 km down the trail. I told you it was an easy day.

“This place sucks” I kid you not, these guys were trying to tell me that they weren’t having fun. Yeah….right.

No other swimmers but me today. That water is even colder this year. Yikes.

St Georges KVR 2008 – Day 2

Unlike last year, things seem to be going suspiciously smoothly. We’ve had to join both groups into one flailing mess this year due to weather and a lot of downed trees on the Summerland end of the trail. It should be interesting. Looks like a good group of boys this time around though.

Yo, Philly! These guys have no idea what they’re in for….

The question here is “How much further?” as some of these guys start to figure out that it’s not as easy as they’d hoped. This is at km 7 of 45 for today. We call that a warmup around here….

Halfway, and we’re waiting.

and waiting…

..and waiting…

Well, I’m bored. Lets roll some rocks.

Hey, on the spectrum of senseless acts of violence, rolling rocks has got to be about the only acceptable form. I enjoyed it at any rate.

Shortly after that we got into the home stretch for the day and hit the “downhill”. Downhill for a train isn’t really saying much.

Nice day out at least.

Funny how much energy these guys have left after the hardest day of their lives (their words, not mine).