Best of 2011

Well we are into the 2012 and 2011 already seems way back. For myself I had probably the funnest year of my life. Traveling around, enjoying the Okanagan, friends and family..you know all the good stuff.

The travels went like this:
Peachland-Victoria-Peachland-Tucson-Peachland-Vancouver BC-Peachland-Sunshine Coast BC-Peachland-Mt Tremblant QC-Baie-St-Paul QC-Barrie ON-Peachland- Mt-St-Anne QC- Albany NY-Peachland- Canmore AB-Edmonton AB-Peachland-Champery Switzerland-Peachland-Seatle WA- Peachland-Vancouver BC-Peachland-Boulder CO-Peachland-Kamloops BC-Peachland-Toronto ON-Peachland-Park City UT-Peachland-Park City UT. Whoa, there was a few trips this year..So mad I didn't hunker down and get my Elite status with Air Canada.

The year started off with some local snowshoe racing with the mang Aart:

Kept snowshoeing with the attempt to get fit:

It snowed like record amounts so that meant driving was fun and my biceps liked all the shoving too..:
                                     

Spent a week at casa a la Plaxton in Victoria riding bicycles:

I also kept hydrated, as most people forget to throughout the winter:

Then I went to Tucson to ride bikes in the desert:

Team Bike Barn won the Okanagan World Champs, the Ski2Sea (http://ski2sea.ca/):

Riding bikes in the best place on earth!

Spent May in the Quebec and Ontario and had learned to cut hair, raced bikes, watched Caunks loose:

In June I shotgunned beer and raced Super D`s:

In July I was in Quebec, New York and Alberta racing bikes with the National Team while pretending to be hockey players for the flights:

Did some hiking in Canmore, caught some air, won my first Pro race in Edmonton and watched two boys develop love for eachother:

Went to Switzerland in September, racing World Champs, Slept on the floor in an airport, Watched a Catharine Pendral win Worlds, Cheered my voice away, Did a mountain top border crossing with the US of A guys, had coffee explosions, loved life.

In the fall I raced some euro`s in cyclo-cross, raced Axel Merckx on mtb`s, grew mullets and moustaches for cx nationals, moved down to Park City for the winter, went skeet shooting over Christmas:

Well I must 2011 was hard to beat, but I will do my best to make every year better until I can't anymore, which will probably be when I have to start a 9-5 job.. Which means I am looking for some support to help make this cycling thing I do the #1 income and full time job to be fit and race around the world.

Pretty thankful to all my supporters that make this happen, being my parents, grandparents, friends, Rocky Mountain Bicycles, The Bike Barn, Canadian Cycling Association, Cycling BC, Haywood Securities, Canadian Metis Society, some helpful un-named amazing people!

Here is the Best of 2011 highlight video! Check it out and give me some views please!!

Putting my brain to work while enjoying a delicious lunch. Next up is getting my tan on under these blue bird skies. Some days life is just too stressful.

Beauty Save! This is guy knows how to drive....

Warning course language, with this kind of video you have to expect it!

Guns, guns, guns

Well it's be a great 6 weeks here in Park City. I am heading home for the holidays tomorrow to enjoy some food and winter beverages with family and friends. I think come down here was really the best and funnest thing I could have done. I've explored some amazing new terrain, set new records for the highest I've ever climbed into the sky(not in a plane of course) at 3070860mm. Set new riding bikes in the winter records, along with most weird meat consumed in a week. I also tried yoga for the first time with the hopes of meeting some of the femail kind, but that turned into a sweating session as I didn't realize it was hot yoga. I already run a pretty high temperature so mixed in with a bunch(like a lot of people, you know more like a herd) of shirtless sweaty men&women in a room that you thought could only fit 10 people and all sweating, of course it rubbed off on me and then I was sweating and doing some awkward poses in a  pile of my own smelly liquid. I wouldn't recommend it for hunting, as you can't really get girls smiling and laughing in a good way when you looked like you were just swimming in your own smelly liquid.

When I get back home the first thing on my list is to drink some of Granville Island's Lions winter ale. I will give Max Plaxton full credit for getting me hooked on this beer, my grandparents even know I love it some much they stocked up their house. I'll probably just have a 6 pack of that of our local Okanagan Tree Brewing Vertical ale sitting in the trunk of my car for emergencies incase I get stuck and need to hydrate while digging my car out of the ditch, but of course avoiding drinking in my car as that illegal I believe.. It's also sounding like riding and mountain biking is in the "set to f*%$ing rock" category back home. There is definitely going to be some winter DH shuttling.

Tried to hike is a ridiculous storm yesterday with winds that were blowing me over and freezing my face so I couldn't even eat my goodies! 

There was also some good food consumption the other day. 

And mad respect for this dude:http://www.adventure-journal.com/2011/12/35031/

Little Park City mid-winter shred session!

Hiking 10,000 ft peaks

People are definitely awesome

sUPER aWESOME fUN tIMES ep 2

I am currently entering a career of painting for the next few days or so, we'll after how much time we spend together if we want to carry on with things or go our seperate ways. 

Little gluten free I guess is what they call this. There's a chance a might have to have some gluten loaded crackers after to feel a little normal.

This puppy is loaded with roasted asparagus, peppers, carrot, mushrooms, coliflower and broccoli. Top with some salad, chicken, avocado and bleu cheese. Yum yum yum I want you in my belly.