Friday after work myself, jake, raul, josh and bernie headed north to the mecca of mountain biking....WHISTLER! Jake, Josh and I were in the maing bus...so to make the trip a bit more interesting, I came up with the idea to make the "show me your t!ts" sign. We didn't actually have any action with the sign on the way home. The story about that will be coming soon.
As we neared the border, I joked with josh and jake, "hey, i've never been stopped at the border" and boy was i correct. I'm not sure what it was...Josh's goatee, my van...the THC (trailhead cycles) stickers all over the bikes, but we were stopped at the border for probably 45 minutes. They made us just sit in a room with a bunch of freaks with too many piercings and people of some other ethnic groups that I had never seen before. they questioned me, then jake....then they spent some time questioning josh. not sure what was said, but we were free and headed north. Bernie and Raul had pulled over to the side of the road about 1/4 mile or 12 litres up the road and the train rolled on. I did see this car in front of us with a picture of raul on the back windshield.
We got to squamish and made the normal 7-11 stop for goodies. a taxi with some drunk scantilly clad women pulled up and they were making comments that I can't speak of. wink wink. they left, so we headed out.
When we arrived in Whistler village, of course the front desk of the hotel was closed...so what else do you do, but call the owner on their cell phone at 2:30 in the morning...to my surprise, they answered and happily told up how to get into the room.
Josh was excited to get up there!
The riding on both saturday and sunday was incredible. The weather was in the upper 70's or low 80's and there was no mud anywhere on the lower mountain! by far the best trip to whistler weather wise! josh and raul made huge leaps forward towards being better riders.
some of our late night entertainment.we didn't take much riding pictures...too busy riding.
trip was awesome, can't wait to get back up there!
These are just a couple warm up pictures from day one race one....which we took first place!
Captain talk time.
Chucks caffeine.
Heading down the ramp for the upcomng first place finish.
Mike checking out the upcoming races.
Don't you all wish Beverly wasn't so introverted and unhappy all the time?
Janis and Brent.
Please don't throw rocks into the water....that was coming from his Dad and not the announcer. That has to be a first!
These were just a couple happy looking dogs that were hanging out with their families down by the water.
This is our friend Jodi that Steph has trained in the ancient art of flag catching...she is catching on. She is on the team that tried to do the race sideways. Her mom is actually the tiller for that team. Too bad Admiral Bill didn't train her, maybe they wouldn't have tried to race into the other boat. All ended well though, they took first place in the womens division even after a rough start on Saturday.
On the ride was Raul (newly named the Mexican Jesus) Josh, Aaron, Jake and I. We headed up to the highest point that we have ever ridden from at post. it was off the left split at the top parking area. go left and start hiking for about twenty minutes. The downhill was cool. a bit of a rut down the center of it from all the motorcycles coming up, but was still fun. one dumb jump in the middle of the trail that landed in a bunch of rocks. None of us decided to hit that jump. We headed down trying to be fairly fast and not stopping. We were supposed to meet up with somebody, but I don't remember who.
