Somewhere in my Moms extensive collection of photos, is one of the very first photos of myself. Just home from the hospital. I'm sitting on Dads lap with an enormous set of ear-muffs on, as he's operating a large Cat (a forestry bulldozer) clearing stumps off of what would later become the backyard. You can imagine the noise. One of Dads arms is ( Read more... )

Theres a few things going on, lets get to a few of them since its been a while ( Read more... )

Query: You find yourself with some unexpected, welcome time off in between jobs. The weather is nice and you've access to a large pile of scrap wood. Additionally you have saved a pile of loot from your summer job which can be spent exclusively on a shiny new bike one hundred percent guilt free. What would you do? How about build a mountain ( Read more... )

Moving is a funny thing. I know that many of you out there have done it many times, but to me its still somewhat of an event. This most recent move brings my grand total to 4. If nothing else it makes me realise just how many 'things' I've amassed, but I think this move in particular has revealed much. Since I finished school I pretty much ( Read more... )

Summer is in its closing days, and with it the final push at the summer job. I know I'm not the only one crossing the days off the calendar, anxiously awaiting September. I don't know where the summer went, but I would like it back if you don't mind. I got in a few activities here and there but overall it was a complete bust. Sure I've got my ( Read more... )

The hectic nature of my work hours this summer have presented the ever-present challenge of finding time in the day to climb. Some days I don't start until 1:00pm, whereas the next I could be starting at 6:00am. The gym, Crag-X, the super training tool that it is, is only open from 2-10 weekdays, and 2-6 Saturday, and closed on Sundays. My ( Read more... )

I remember going on a trip, to Alberta with my family, sometime around the age of 8-10. Its one of my earliest memories I can really recall. We had the camper in tow behind the 4 door purple oldsmobile, with no air conditioning and those crazy windows in the backseat which only rolled down 1/2 way. This was summer time, and as per usual it was a ( Read more... )

When you're young, most people had a few good friends, quite often people can name at least one person who was their 'best' friend. I had a friend named Vince, he fits this niche pretty well. Vince was into mountain biking in a big way and so was I. We both scrimped and saved and bought ridiculously expensive hardtails which we proceeded to ride ( Read more... )

Saturday morning, my alarm goes off at 9:30am, Tool tickets go on sale online at 10:00am. So I roll around in bed for a few minutes. 9:45 I climb out of the sheets and sit down at my lappy to see: no internet. uh oh. wifi is down, check the router, the entire connection is down. A quick power off/power on was all it took thankfully and we were ( Read more... )

Even being in a new place with new people, climbing has remained a constant. A good day on the rock and i loose my worries and become completely engaged in the atmosphere of the climbing and the people which i am with. Climbing is the great catalyst by which i have come to know many people as friends. I will always miss the ones i'm not climbing ( Read more... )