Fall Shenanigans.

Golf?
No I haven’t taken up golf. Miles and I made a trip out to Fernie for their annual Poker Ride, and this was how we qualified for our bonus card atop Hyperventilation trail. It was a spectacular Fall day, and the mountains around Fernie were looking their rugged best with a dusting of snow higher [...]

First Taste of Winter

Brent – Styling on the North Shore in Nelson
After a final couple of days of ripping on my mountain bike in hot dry conditions, the long anticipated Fall rains have arrived. I got thoroughly soaked hiking in to replinish the wood supply at a favourite backcountry cabin yesterday, and then today it really pissed down.

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Winter’s Coming.

One of my skis that I’d stashed on the summit of Old Glory and had gone missing, showed up. I was riding to the summit as part of the Seven Summits Poker Ride  http://rosslandtrails.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/seven-summits-poker-ride/ when there it was, sticking up out of the rocks. There was a core shot in it that I don’t remember, so [...]