digging with sticks, dirt jumping and my birthday weekend

Well yet again i've left it a few days since my last post, but those days have been long and tiring but rewarding. Let me fill you in...

THURSDAY//The last post was on thursday and i said it was raining so was staying in.. well i ended up going to a dirt jump spot in Berkley North Van. It was pissing it down, and when we arrived there were swimming pools inbetween all the jumps.


me and Cove rider Dan Skogland very wet and muddy

Not letting the weather get us down me Dave and Dan found sticks buckets and bits of broken pipe to dig drainage and ride the trails regardless. The result was a lot of fun but at the expense of getting extremely wet. A good lil session went down but after a couple of hours we called it a day and went back to Steve's for a few beers.

me flowing with an x-up

trying to add a bit of style here

The rest of the day was spent drinking and chilling.

FRIDAY//After having quite a blast riding the one line at Berkley the previous day, i met Dan in North Van and we rode to the jumps for another session. It took us well over an hour to get there, was an absolute mission!! but sooo worth it as the weather was sweet and the trails were pretty much dry.



Today we came prepred with some shiny new shovels from canadian tyre so we did a little more work to the middle line then had a well deserved ride in the fine weather. Did more digging, more riding, more digging more riding. Sweet day. Dave and the yeti aka Owen turned up and took some snaps of me and Dan:


my shady 1ft table on the road gap//sweet whip from Dan in the train

SATURDAY//My birthday woohoo!! Had a lazy morning and slept in a bit then packed up and headed off to Whistler baby yeah! It was blazing sunshine on the drive up and the view was amazing. We listened to Clutch and got psyched up for a good ride.

Got to the park and met up with Chris and Cam, queued up for eternity and headed down the hill. Half way down i got a puncture, shitter. The guys headed off and i fixed myself up, and helped another downed rider sort his flat out too. took this random pic whilst i was waiting for the others:


turns out dave was on this giving me the finger

We went down to the river after a couple of runs and i had my first birthday beer courtesy of Chris, cheers buddy! Chris and Cam went off home to see the Eagles of Death metal whilst me and Dave shredded till about 6:60-7pm. I'm starting to lay off the brakes round the hugh speed berms now, tis a sick feeling.

Got no pics of me at Whistler yet but here's some i took of others and random stuff:


the Jew and Dave on schleyer


the slopestyle is coming on//random rider on the GLC

We had a real chilled drive back, drank beers and ate fine BBQ food. what a way to celebrate being 22!

SUNDAY//And that leads us to today. Another lazy day resting and relaxing. Been to the two Cove bike shops, had pancakes for lunch with lots of syrup, tis all good. Was the CBC ripper race today, apaprantly Dan ate shit. get well soon bud.

Will report back soon with more tales from the bollock.