we have been having some awesome summer days in the last week or so .in between work i,ve been mixing up the riding .had a chance to spend some time with a mate who is a bike park guide and he gave me some pointers to help my riding so thats going well .xc riding has involved ride first then to a lake for a swim then soak up the rays get dried off for the ride home .what a summer !trying not to think about riding back in the uk !a long way off yet .

trying to regain fitness lost to damn chairlifts so hitting the x.c. vibe .emerald forest singletrack on sunday followed by a swim in alta lake .packed with people soaking up the sunshine ,there was even a d.j out there playing some top tunes .glad i decided to do that the attempt to ride the park was a non starter .might be something to do with the house party at ours and going to bed sometime after 3 in the morning !just feeling every rough section had to give it up !the kids had mostly drum n bass and all that crap going so they were persuaded to let d.j wurzel lose on you tube and get some good old skinhead reggae going , went down atreat as well .
today was my day off and it went something like this .x.c in the morning before it got too hot did whip me snip me barts dark ,bob's rebob into river runs through it .just happened to pop me out at the lake so a swim was the order of the day !after dinner into the bike park and finally got my groove back on the beer on the patio of longhorns was the icing on the cake !!!!

had some more pics to add but blogspot is having a shit so these will have to do .good to be able to pose in the posh reception of the delta hotel at sunpeaks !!

Well it's been a while since my last blog so time to catch up a bit .Been on a road trip around B.C. visiting different bike parks .First off caught the ferry from Horseshoe Bay to Vancouver Island .Crossing took 2 hours then an hour and a half drive to Mount Washington ,we arrived at Bear Lodge after midnight .M.W. was similar to when the Garbanzo opened in Whistler .Still a lot of snow a lot of runs still closed .though it was quite cool to ride through snow banks taller than me on the bike !!!
Spent a day there then drove to Silver Star which was real cool place similar to a wild west town !There was a pipe and drum band in town so 745 in the morning strred to the sound of bagpipes !S.S was a really cool park ,my favourite of the 3 we visited .Trails were awesome with some cool riding through meadows !!!
Final park was Sun Peaks just outside Kamloops which was a pretty full on park .No double black runs but there should have been !!!!All in all an awesome trip and a good chance to see different countryside ranging from mountainous to arable pasture , ranchlands as well .
Todat i joined an XC ride in Pemberton which was pretty damn good as well .At one point we could here a lot of rustling in the undergrowth which i didn't think was loud enough to be a bear .15 minutes later this dude riding towards us told us he had seen a cougar up the trail we were heading towards !!!!!S o what did we do ?Carry on in that direction !!!!All well and good as agroup but as i was the slowest so was tail end charlie concentrated my mind somewhat !!!!When we got back to Mosquito Lake we saw some cougar prints but (un)fortunately we didn't get up close and personal !!!!
I've got some photos from the road trip which i will post sometime including one of me ready to ride in the foyer of the posh hotel at Sun Peaks !!!(Complete with body armour !!!)