The Spice of Life

Work, sleep, eat, school, ride. Not enough ride. I've been easy to rattle at work lately so I took a week off. Starting off at Whistler is never the wrong thing to do.
Except when it rains. Those clouds would glower ominously over us until about 3 when started letting loose with a few warning shots. 2 rips later we were dashing for the truck and heading home, that was around 4.
At least the bikes got washed.
Good enough right? Sunday was spent in a Javascript workshop, the first of 2. I started disparaging over the thought of a 4 day window wasted at home. So I packed up and went for a solo exploratory of Cumberland.

The ferry was very merry. Our flag was taking a beating in the wind.

Stoping at my bro's on the way up to Cumberland. I showed him my new bike. He showed me his new surf shuttle, which I didnt think to take a picture of.




The Riding Fool is a Hostel the Cumberland. It sits above a bike shop. Below are the store hours. Ride Hostel. What a good idea. There are so many places in B.C. that could benefit from a Hostel. After dumping all your coin into a bike, it's not like you got a lot left for hotels.

30 seconds after getting signed up in the hostel I met Trudy. We would go out on a couple of trips together. She was kind enough to Navigate.

Below is the Trudy show.

One of my gripes about blogging is you can never get any decent shots of you. It turns out I was there on a good day. Innis and his gf Mary, were having a social and were good enough to cook for us. Innis was an awesome host.

This is the group. Good times, good peeps.

A shot with me in it so you know I'm not making this shit up.
Trudy and I rode once Tuesday morning. Then she had to go. So after lunch I bought a map and went for one more ride on my own.

All the way at the top is Bear buns.
Obligatory self shot #1.
All together, Cumberland is a great ride destination. The Hostel is the best part of that. The only knock I have against Cumberland is the hack job TimberWest did in the hills around. The trains are nicely tucked in the tree line, but you gotta push through a lot of clearbut wasteland to get to them.
Anyways, Bear buns feeds nicely into Off Broadway. Both were great flowy trails, ending in Bronco's Perseverance, a nice no thinking no skill required rip to the road outside Cumberland.

I got booted out of the Hostel cause they had no room for tuesday night. Fuck you B.C. bike race!

So tuesday I headered to the hostel on Denman Island, whiched sucked, no pics taken. Wednesday Morning I went to the rest of the way to Hornby Island to ride in Mt. Geoffrey 'something bla bla' park.

A shot of tribune bay.
While my breakfast settled.....


No wait. While my $15 breakfast settled. Yeah, travelling amongst the hippies ain't cheap.

Finally getting started. I parked at the end of Slade road and started up. On the way up I ran into the these guys. They showed me some stuff, like the edge of the cliff. This is Chris, Juan and Graham in the back.


Rode down with them for a short while. Then went off on my own. I had me a nice little rip down 'Test Tube', then 'Chris and Brad's' and out 'No Horses'. Nicely worked single track, but with all things good, they come to an end. I wanted to be off the Island by 2 so I motored on.

Obligatory self shot #2.


Spent a few days at my Mom's. Was too tired to ride Thursday but got out once on Friday before I had to head home for School. Lame. Our Java teacher is really cranking up the intensity too. Spend friday night being pissed off and frustrated. Thanks BCIT.

Saturday I woke up Ian for some Fromme'n. I was pretty surprised when he showed up at my place with his XC bike. He told me he didn't like that bike on Fromme but I guess he forgot.

This is about as good as his day would get. Thats him doin a walk around on Pipeline.

He was nice enough to take a few pics for me though. And a short clip of me and my noisy brakes.

Good day with minimal gore. Thats what I get for leaving my armor in the truck.

Awesome week. Can't believe I cant ride again until next week.