Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category

OK - so I don’t blog enough, but when I do it always involves skiing .

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Couple of interesting moments since I last blogged. I saw a guy break his arm in the powder 10 m from where Daniel and I were trying to film. His buddies were kind of in shock and not sure what to do, so I wandered over and offered my assistance. ...

Whistler update - I finally have a home.

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

OK so whats happened since I last blogged?... Here is an easy to follow list: Skied Alpine meadows with my brother and tweaked some knee ligaments. Chilled in Portland and completed Call of Duty 4 while resting previously mentioned knee ligaments. Drove back up to Vancouver via the Ocean highway. Ate at Pig and Pancake ...

Road trip to Portland and Riding Powder in Mt Hood

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

The title says it all really. Exhausted after a long day riding in great snowy conditions at Alpine Meadows today on Mt Hood. Drove down last Sunday and have been relaxing and enjoying the city of Portland for the last few days. Will hopefully post more about the trip soon, ...

The return to action - Whistler Terrain Park

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Early days - but slowly slowly the legs and confidence are returning. This is a clean mute 540 over in the Whistler terrain park taken by Daniel on the little Canon PowerShot. The Panasonic HVX arrives soon and then hopefully we will get some real footage to post. The big Blackcomb ...

Night time creative in Squamish

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

A little camera experimentation with a Canon PowerShot, a head torch, a lighter with built in odd blue light... and for one night only.. a shoe imprint. Rock on Squamish town.

Squamish Photo Stroll

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

We have been forced to leave Whistler due to there being no where to stay for a reasonable price, and have headed down the mountain a little to Squamish. Accommodation is sorted in Whistler for Feb onwards so for now we just have to hitch up the highway to ride ...

Snow and blue skys

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Well here in beautiful Whistler BC, the sun is out and the mountains look amazing with fresh snow sprinkled generously over them. Yesterday was great, riding freshies under a clear perfect blue sky. Put in some good turns on "Christmas Trees" off the back of "The Peak". Hoping to do ...

First day of the next 4 months

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

OK have arrived in Whistler to epic quantities of snow, it seems the forecast got it right. It is now Friday morning of the 11th and I’m up bright and early with jet lag. I’m eager to ride and get on the snow but my compatriot is still fast asleep ...

Ski season is almost here and looks whats it’s bringing

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Well as anyone who occasionally stops by my blog and reads a post or two will probably know, I'm off skiing for four months this Thursday (the 10th) and I'm starting to get a touch excited. The reason for my excitement apart from getting to ski for four months, is ...

Dominican Republic

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Just got back from 10 days in D.R. chillin out and basically discovering that all inclusive means not doing very much near or on a beach. The beaches are beautiful and the placed we stayed was well...all inclusive, which meant lots of rum and coke, plenty of food (although a ...